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Sunday People - David Moyes want to take QPR's Jamie Mackie to Goodison Park
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Everton boss David Moyes is setting up a move for QPR’s new Scotland striker Jamie Mackie – as he tries to unearth his next lower league gem.
Moyes’ spies have been trailing Mackie for weeks, alerted by the goals he has collected for Rangers since joining them from Plymouth for a bargain fee.
Rangers will want around £3million for Mackie now – with West Ham also making an inquiry – but Everton are serious about the speedy forward.
Moyes is hopeful Mackie (above) could step up like Tim Cahill, Joleon Lescott and Phil Jagielka to become a big hitter in the Premier League after he went down to pluck them from the Championship. People
Express - Sunday October 31,2010 By Colin Mafham
MEGABUCKS QPR TO SHEIKH UP CITY
Amit Bhatia said “the dream is to get into the Champions League"
QPR are waiting in the wings to match Manchester City’s millions next season.
As things stand now they will be up there with the Premier League giants in every sense of the word.
And while Manchester United and others wrestle with massive debts, the club that has a staggering £20BILLION behind it is prepared to go pound for pound with City if necessary to conquer Europe.*
“We have a target. We will make it happen no matter what it takes, within reason,” said vice-chairman Amit Bhatia, whose father-in-law Lakshmi Mittal has a staggering fortune that is more than a match for Manchester City’s Sheikh Mansour.
“The dream is to get into the Champions League and if we are promoted we will put our hands in our pockets,” Bhatia added.
“My father-in-law didn’t get where he is settling to finish fourth. We want to finish top,” he added.
Backed by two of the richest men in the world – and a third who is no pauper – the Championship promotion chasers can match the buying power of Mansour and also pay the sort of mind-boggling players’ salaries they will ultimately need to in order to achieve their goal.
It is an amazing prospect for a club whose owner spent £34million on his daughter’s wedding.
The cash-fuelled rise of QPR since Indian steel tycoon Mittal, Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore took over three years ago also adds up to a real rags to riches rise for manager Neil Warnock.
This time last year Warnock didn’t know where his next penny was coming from at Crystal Palace.
Now he is looking forward to one last crack at the Premier League at the age of 62, despite hints from Briatore that he would like Italian Marcello Lippi at the helm if they do go up.
“We have some quality players who never give up and that’s what good teams do,” said Warnock, whose high-flyers achieved a club record at Bristol City last week by staying unbeaten for 13 league games since the start of the season. Express
QPR-Burnley Reports
BBC QPR 1 - 1 Burnley
QPR slipped down to second in the Championship table as they were held to a draw at Loftus Road by Burnley.
The Clarets made a good start but it was Rangers who scored first, with Adel Taarabt creating space before drilling home his strike from 25 yards.
Burnley equalised from the spot through Graham Alexander after Matthew Connolly's foul on Dean Marney.
Jay Rodriquez wasted a superb chance to score a winner for Burnley after Wade Elliott's great through ball.
But Tommy Smith shaved the post for Rangers, while Shaun Derry also missed a good opening, shooting wide from 14 yards.
It may be harsh to suggest Rangers' form is stuttering after they extended their unbeaten run to 14 games.
But four successive draws suggest the division will not be the cakewalk it appeared a month ago when the Hoops were steamrollering everyone in sight.
Paddy Kenny had not picked the ball out of the home net for more than nine-and-a-half hours, but he had to make a double save early in the first half to extend his record by a few minutes.
Kenny probably should have held Chris Eagles' 20-yard drive but when he spilled the ball at the feet of Rodriguez, the keeper recovered superbly to palm his effort clear.
Burnley felt they should have had a penalty on the half-hour when Eagles tumbled under Clint Hill's challenge but referee Iain Williamson booked the Clarets winger, despite having earlier ignored when seemed like a dive by Taarabt.
But if that was the worst side of Taarabt's game, the mercurial Moroccan soon showed the best by lashing an unstoppable 25-yard curler past Lee Grant and into the top corner.
Rangers could soon have been two up but Rob Hulse and Alejandro Faurlin got in each other's way as they went for Taarabt's cross.
Instead, they allowed Burnley to draw level on the stroke of half-time when Kenny's goal was finally breached.
Connolly clumsily bundled Marney over in the area, Williamson this time pointed to the spot and Alexander duly obliged.
Rangers came closest to a winner in stoppage time when Smith curled inches wide and Derry crashed a shot over.
Burnley had their chances too, with Chris Iwelumo lashing his shot high over the bar and Rodriguez's toe-poke bouncing narrowly wide of Kenny's goal.
But even Rangers co-owner Bernie Ecclestone, on a rare Grand Prix-free weekend, had seen enough before the end as both sides settled for a point.
QPR 1 - 1 Burnley
QPR slipped down to second in the Championship table as they were held to a draw at Loftus Road by Burnley.
The Clarets made a good start but it was Rangers who scored first, with Adel Taarabt creating space before drilling home his strike from 25 yards.
Burnley equalised from the spot through Graham Alexander after Matthew Connolly's foul on Dean Marney.
Jay Rodriquez wasted a superb chance to score a winner for Burnley after Wade Elliott's great through ball.
But Tommy Smith shaved the post for Rangers, while Shaun Derry also missed a good opening, shooting wide from 14 yards.
It may be harsh to suggest Rangers' form is stuttering after they extended their unbeaten run to 14 games.
But four successive draws suggest the division will not be the cakewalk it appeared a month ago when the Hoops were steamrollering everyone in sight.
Paddy Kenny had not picked the ball out of the home net for more than nine-and-a-half hours, but he had to make a double save early in the first half to extend his record by a few minutes.
Kenny probably should have held Chris Eagles' 20-yard drive but when he spilled the ball at the feet of Rodriguez, the keeper recovered superbly to palm his effort clear.
Burnley felt they should have had a penalty on the half-hour when Eagles tumbled under Clint Hill's challenge but referee Iain Williamson booked the Clarets winger, despite having earlier ignored when seemed like a dive by Taarabt.
But if that was the worst side of Taarabt's game, the mercurial Moroccan soon showed the best by lashing an unstoppable 25-yard curler past Lee Grant and into the top corner.
Rangers could soon have been two up but Rob Hulse and Alejandro Faurlin got in each other's way as they went for Taarabt's cross.
Instead, they allowed Burnley to draw level on the stroke of half-time when Kenny's goal was finally breached.
Connolly clumsily bundled Marney over in the area, Williamson this time pointed to the spot and Alexander duly obliged.
Rangers came closest to a winner in stoppage time when Smith curled inches wide and Derry crashed a shot over.
Burnley had their chances too, with Chris Iwelumo lashing his shot high over the bar and Rodriguez's toe-poke bouncing narrowly wide of Kenny's goal.
But even Rangers co-owner Bernie Ecclestone, on a rare Grand Prix-free weekend, had seen enough before the end as both sides settled for a point.
* Taarabt 32
* Alexander (pen) 45
* 01 Kenny
* 03 Hill
* 13 Gorkssyellow card
* 15 Walker
* 16 Connolly
* 04 Derry
* 07 Taarabtyellow card (Smith 82)
* 11 Faurlin
* 25 Ephraim (Agyemang 62)
* 12 Mackieyellow card
* 20 Hulse (Clarke 74)
Substitutes
* 24 Cerny,
* 02 Orr,
* 06 Leigertwood,
* 14 Rowlands,
* 08 Clarke,
* 19 Agyemang,
* 21 Smith
Burnley
* 01 Grant
* 03 Fox
* 04 Duffyellow card
* 05 Carlisle
* 14 Mears
* 02 Alexanderyellow card
* 08 Marney
* 11 Elliott
* 33 Eaglesyellow card (Wallace 46)
* 09 Iwelumo (Thompson 83)
* 19 Rodriguez
Substitutes
* 12 Jensen,
* 18 Cort,
* 21 Bikey,
* 06 Cork,
* 22 Wallace,
* 10 Paterson,
* 30 Thompson
Ref: WilliamsonAtt: 15,620
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