QPR player situation is 'a real strange one' - Fresh Loftus Road exit tipped | OneFootball

Queens Park Rangers striker Zan Celar is expected to leave this summer after a woeful loan stint at Fortuna Dusseldorf.

Queens Park Rangers find themselves slipping further into the bottom-half of the table after a frustrating run of form to deny their chances of getting into the top six and the play-off places.

The Hoops did manage to get a much-needed come from behind victory against Leicester City on Saturday, defeating the relegation-threatened Foxes by three goals to one at the King Power Stadium.

That win ended what was a four-match losing streak for the R’s and is just their fourth win in 16 matches since a 4-1 hammering of Leicester just before Christmas.

In the 15 matches that preceded this weekend’s result, QPR managed to score more than two goals in a game on just two previous occasions – at home to crisis club Sheffield Wednesday and, anomalously, away at promotion chasing Hull City.

Zan Celar is out on loan at the moment but, despite those goal scoring issues, he isn’t necessarily someone that many supporters would be looking to for help.

Zan Celar is enduring a difficult time away from QPR

Having arrived in the summer of 2024, Zan Celar moved to 2. Bundesliga outfit Fortuna Dusseldorf last summer and he has endured yet another miserable period.

The 27-year-old 17-cap Slovenia international striker has recently been involved in a training ground spat in Germany, failing to score this season with the German second-tier outfit having failed in their desire to terminate his loan in January.

As FLW’s QPR Fan Pundit Louis Moir has outlined, there is next to no chance that Celar will be back at Loftus Road next season – and finding a suitor may well become a problem.

Louis says: “It’s definitely been a bizarre time for Zan Celar since joining us and, well, since leaving us. His career has just not got going again.

“I was excited when we signed him initially. An interesting signing. A guy who has scored a lot of goals out in Europe. He might replicate that here but he just wasn’t up to it at all.

“Seemingly that has continued where he is now and it seems like he is really having a shocking season.

“You could argue the quality of the Swiss league but he scored a lot of goals and players don’t just stop scoring goals when they have been used to it.

“He’s still at a good age. I don’t know.There are going to be clubs around Europe, I’m sure of it, that would happily take him in the summer but there’s no way he’ll be at QPR.

“I’d be shocked. I just think a club in the second-tier in Europe might take him. He might get lucky, even in the first division in Europe, albeit it may be a lower league.

“It’s a real strange one with Celar. How he hasn’t shown anything on this loan spell he’s having and you’d think he’s dropped down to a division that is much weaker than the Championship and is still not cutting it there.

“Maybe he’s just been really unlucky with a move to QPR and then this move here but it just hasn’t worked for him. He just hasn’t settled and he needs to go somewhere to get his career back on track because the longer it goes on, clubs aren’t going to take an interest him.

“He, for sure, won’t be here at QPR next season.”

Having come through the academy with Maribor in Slovenia, Celar was viewed as a hot prospect as a youngster and earned a move to Serie A giants Roma.

He made just one first-team appearance for the Gallorossi, loaned out from the Stadio Olimpico the final two of his three years in Italy’s capital city; playing for Cittadella and then Cremonese with very average results.

He departed Italy in 2021 and find a home in the Swiss Super League with Lugano; scoring double figures for goals in all three seasons – hitting 51 in 116 games across all competitions.

That earned him his move to England but, after scoring just twice in 22 QPR appearances last season, Celar was loaned out in August, having made two appearances early on in this campaign in the Championship.

Celar has failed in Italy, England and Germany with only Lugano yet to see his benefits so, while he is expected to depart in the summer, finding him a landing spot could prove problematic.