Holloway confirms reason for Chery delay

Ian Holloway has confirmed that Tjaronn Chery’s move to China only went through after QPR received payment for the Dutch midfielder.

Chery’s transfer to Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng was rubber-stamped earlier this week – almost a month after the Chinese Super League club were given the green light to sign him.

The reason for the delay was that Rangers were concerned by recent administrative issues involving transfers to China and, more importantly, reports that some payments for big-money deals had not been made.

QPR therefore refused to process the final documents needed for Chery’s move to go through until the payment had been received.

“We weren’t sure we were going to get it,” R’s boss Holloway admitted.

“We didn’t release something, so he couldn’t play for two weeks until we got the money.

“That’s methodical, it’s good, well planned and well run.”