Brazilian club interested in QPR defender

Chapecoense are interested in signing Hevertton Santos from QPR.

The right-back, 25, has been on loan at Portuguese club Gil Vicente, who have an option to sign him on a permanent deal this summer.

But he could return to his native Brazil, with Chapecoense, who are bottom of the country’s Serie A, indicating that they are keen on him.

Santos has spent most of his career in Portugal, where he was at Sporting Lisbon and played for Estrela prior to his move to Loftus Road in 2024.

He returned there to join Vitória SC on loan, having failed to impress at Rangers, and after they declined to take up an option to keep him he was loaned out again last summer.

Santos made six Championship appearances for QPR, two of them as a substitute, and did not impress.

Meanwhile, Julien Stephan has played down reports linking him with a potential return to France.

The QPR head coach has also insisted an injury striker Rumarn Burrell picked up against Derby is not a cause for alarm.