Whilst QPR midfielder Adel Taarabt is currently being hawked around to just about every Premier League club it remains a mystery where he’ll play his football next season. With every day that passes the odds seem to increase on the chances of his remaining a QPR player. There’s something unattractive about a player who talks up a move to just about every club under the sun.
He’s already noted that he’d be keen to join ‘not very big club’ Newcastle (way to endear yourself with the fans, Adel). What’s more he’s also claimed that he’d be ‘very tempted to join Chelsea’. So what would he say if the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United were to come in and make a move? It strikes me that Taarabt is being somewhat disrespectful to QPR, the club who have given him the platform to make such huge strides in his career.
I’m not saying he owes them a season of his services in the Premier League, rather that he and his agent ought to conduct themselves in a manner more befitting of a professional sportsman. Beyond his open-minded approach to the transfer window, there was also this recent news story that may have prospective buyers raising their eyebrows.
According to numerous sources, Taarabt stormed out of the Moroccan camp during the recent batch of Internationals because he was set to start the match on the bench. It’s thought that he claimed he never wished to be a part of the Moroccan set-up again.
To give the 22-year-old his due, he has since apologised for his actions. He recently told Moroccan TV Station RTM: “I know I made a mistake. I made a decision when I was fired up and regretted it one second later. I should never have done it”. The act it seems, reflects Taarabt’s sometimes rather hot-headed nature. How would Taraabt react if he made a move to a club like Liverpool or Tottenham and was forced to sit on the bench for a number of games?
Does he have the mindset to make it at a top Premier League club? That’s a question that a number of club bosses will be asking themselves during this transfer window and as a result may opt against gambling on the Moroccan. Tottenham fans may be unable to forgive Taarabt after he claimed last year that he wished he had originally joined Arsenal at the beginning of his career and that he regretted joining Spurs back in 2007.
Newcastle fans may be unwilling to forgive his labelling of them as a small club. Kenny Dalglish may prefer the relative cool-headedness of Charlie Adam. My worry is that Taarabt is talking himself out of a number of potential transfers and that he’ll be forced to play for QPR against his will next season.
I’ve got this far without making the obligatory mention of Taarabt’s enviable talent. He would be an asset for any team – the only worry at the moment is his attitude. After all, would you want your club to make a move for him?
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look, silly, he has already sat on OUR bench lots of times, and he WON’T be sitting there again!!
Most QPR fans,and Neil Warnock would gladly drive this bloke to his next club!
Wonder what that does for his ego!
Really?! I wouldn’t, amazing talent – said some slightly silly things that have been translated very poorly from French and then multiplied exponentially by the press.
Hopefully all this will mean he stays at QPR – but I wouldnt bank on it being much past January 1st 2012 as once he’s put Terry on his backside a few times everyone will want him.
He’ll either be unhappy at QPR, unhappy at another club as they wont build the whole team around him or unhappy at ManU/Chelsea because he wont get a game and will be on the bench. Great talent. Shocking attitude.
Why do you think Spurs let him go? Trouble maker!
Idiot, he was at Tottenham and we got rid of hin to QPR!!!!!
I don’t want this chap joining my beloved ewcastle United. We may well be a “not very big club” but we have already had our quota of egotistical, mercenary assholes for this century.
Maybe he could join the mackems?
Taarabt, will never be bigger than the club, its not point having a player like him in the squad. I want a team player, team first. QPR is a great team, hope they will stay up,and ofc without taarabt, he can go and play in malaysia
i dont think he is a tottenham target as the title states seeing as we had him for about 4 years then finally sold him to QPR. idiot.
Spurs have never re-signed a player?
Defoe, Chimbonda and Kaboul in recent times just off the top of my head.
He has been a very good player in the Championship, which has a high standard of football, but he’s getting ahead of himself if the rumours of him trying to push through a move to one of the established Premiership side’s are true. As Doc says, Tottenham got rid of him, so he’s had a chance before. I don’t know all the in’s and out’s of it, but I think he should stay with QPR, see how he gets on in the top-flight THEN see where he stands. If they get relegated and he was great then it can be justified, but he’s yet to prove himself at this stage.
Looks like heze burnt all his bridges at QPR now and i’m struggling to think of a team that will want to take him that he is prepared to sign for. Newcastle would probably the best move for him and I think he recognises that but I don’t think he is any better than what they already have in Hatem Ben Arfa, and I don’t think Arsenal and Liverpool would be too keen to take him because of his disruptive and temperamental attitude if he doesn’t get his own way. He needs to be the star man and when that isn’t the case as it would be at Arsenal and Liverpool he would become a disruptive influence, just look at his disgraceful attitude and actions when he was told he was going to be on the bench for Morocco recently.