Round-up: Jota offer rejected as El Khayati leaves Rangers
Brentford have rejected an offer from Middlesbrough for Jota.
Boro offered £4.5m plus add-ons for the Spanish playmaker, who has attracted interest from several clubs.
Jokanovic wants Flint
Slavisa Jokanovic wants Fulham to complete a deal to sign Bristol City centre-back Aden Flint.
Head coach Jokanovic is hoping to add Flint, 27, to his squad but the Whites hierarchy are less keen, having brought in Marcelo Djalo and Tomas Kalas on loan.
Jokanovic also likes Watford’s Craig Cathcart and Grant Hanley of Newcastle.
However, as in the case of Flint, Fulham’s statistical analysis team are unconvinced they would be good acquisitions.
Meanwhile, Middlesbrough have enquired about Tim Ream but Fulham want the United States international to stay.
Perch injury woe
James Perch faces several months on the sidelines with a knee injury he sustained at the weekend.
The QPR defender refused to come off during the final stages of Saturday’s home win against Hull City.
It has since been ascertained that he suffered a dislocated knee cap.
El Khayati goes and JET could follow
Nasser El Khayati has left QPR and the club are also looking to get rid of Jay Emmanuel-Thomas.
El Khayati’s contract has been terminated by mutual consent – 18 months after his move from Burton.
He made 25 appearances for the R’s, scoring one goal, and ended last season in his native Netherlands, on loan at ADO Den Haag.
Emmanuel-Thomas, who joined QPR in 2015, spent last season on loan at Gillingham and has long been out of favour at Loftus Road.
Holloway stands by changes
QPR manager Ian Holloway stood by his decision to make 10 changes for his side’s Carabao Cup defeat at home to Brentford.
Rangers were thrashed 4-1 by their west London neighbours, but Holloway insisted he had no regrets about his team selection.
He said: “I stand by that. I wanted the ones who haven’t played to show me what it’s about and were they ready to take on Brentford.
“It didn’t look like it. But there were a lot of positives for me and I would still make the same decision because the league campaign is absolutely vital for us.
“It was always going to be the right thing to do from my point of view. I’ve got to look past the score, past the criticism and look past who it’s against.
“The score doesn’t feel very nice because they’re from over the road.”
Ouseph wins
Hounslow’s Rajiv Ouseph moved into the third round of the badminton World Championships with a 22-20, 21-9 victory over world number 29 Sameer Verma in Glasgow.
The reigning European champion and tournament 16th seed had defeated outsider Adam Mendrek in the first round but this looked, on paper, a tougher test.
It proved so in a nip and tuck first game, in which the lead changed hands several times, but Ouseph shaded it.
24/08/2017 @ 3:21 pm
Should Holloway persist with Borysiuk?
Who cares? Holloway himself is the problem. As a player he was a good midfielder but when dropping back to help the defence he was clueless.
He never did learn about defending. Attacking a team because it humiliated QPR is not worthy. Holloway must learn from teams that can play like this with their purpose and tactics. There is another option for Holloway, leave the club and let another incompetent take over.