HOOPS IN NEED OF LOFTUS ROAD BOOST
By John Lyons

If he was shipwrecked on a desert island, Gareth Ainsworth is the kind of man that you’d back to see the positives. You could imagine him hunting for food and living off scraps – and that’s kind of what he’s been trying to do since taking the reins at QPR.
The days of the Hoops spending silly money on transfer fees and wages have long gone, and the club are having to live within their means. They haven’t got the riches of recently relegated clubs like Leicester, Leeds, Southampton and Watford.
After giving up what was pretty much as close as...