Queens Park Rangers are hoping to bring Louis Moult back to England from the Scottish Premiership on a bargain deal.
QPR’s links with Saman Ghoddos just aren’t going away. HITC sources told us in August that the Loftus Road club had a £1.8 million bid rejected for the striker, who plays in Sweden with Ostersunds.
QPR are understood to be still tracking Ghoddos, however – though claims made by Ostersunds chairman Daniel Kindberg that he would now cost up to £4.6 million, per Aftenbladet, looks to pose a real threat to the deal.
Especially with The Mail reporting last week that QPR face up to paying a £40 million fine, the biggest financial sanction in footballing history, for breaching Financial Fair Play regulations in 2012. QPR spent less than £1 million in the summer transfer window so it appears unlikely that they will be making any bids of around £5 million any time soon.
Bargain
It makes perfect sense, then, that Louis Moult would enter onto their radar. The Daily Record report that QPR’s chief scout, Gary Penrice, has attended Motherwell’s last two games to watch the 25-year-old in action. And he will no doubt have been impressed when Moult scored twice, including a sublime lob, to down Rangers in the Scottish League Cup semi-final last week.
Moult, a former Stoke City youth, scored 15 goals in each of the last two league seasons for Motherwell since joining from non-league Wrexham United. He has 11 goals in 17 games so far in 2017/18 too.
And with the red-hot striker out of contract in the summer, QPR may be hoping to sign him on a pre-contract agreement in January – or perhaps strike a cut-price deal to bring Moult to Loftus Road in the New Year.
Considering that no one in QPR’s squad has more than five goals to their name this season, the prolific Moult looks like a fine addition on paper. Especially when you consider he could cost £5 million less than the overpriced Ghoddos.
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