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Gulf Air-sponsored Queens Park Rangers' Arab midfielder Adel Taarabt has been named Football League Player of the Year.
The 21-year-old has scored 15 goals in 37 league appearances this season and is playing a key role in QPR's promotion bid to the Premiership. The team currently sits nine points clear of second place Norwich City with eight games remaining.
Taarabt follows a long line of sublimely-skilled stars that have graced Loftus Road over the past 45 years. Call them playmakers, fantasistas, attacking midfielders or inside-forwards, but not many supporters have been so blessed as those of the west London club whose glorious memories of Rodney Marsh, Stanley Bowles, Gerry Francis, Tony Currie, Trevor Francis and Roy Wegerle, have been burnished by the outrageously-gifted Moroccan's performances this season.
Taarabt is set to discuss an improved deal at QPR - but may not put pen to paper until the end of the year. The QPR captain, who has two years left on his contract, is being monitored by a string of top clubs including Manchester United, Arsenal and Real Madrid, but the Moroccan is pledging his immediate future to Rangers because he enjoys working with boss Neil Warnock.
With so many clubs after his signature one lucky GulfWeekly reader can possess it along with his shirt! In a generous gesture to fans in Bahrain the player has sent us his lucky signed No 7 shirt to auction for Think Pink Bahrain, the charity raising awareness about breast cancer in the kingdom.
Simply email editor@gulfweekly.com. The highest bid will win the prize.
