Queens Park Rangers vs Reading
Hoops | Official Matchday Programme of Queens Park Rangers | Issue 18 QPR vs Reading | Sky Bet Championship Saturday 29th January, 2022 | KO 3pm | Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium
Hoops | Official Matchday Programme of Queens Park Rangers | Issue 18
QPR vs Reading | Sky Bet Championship
Saturday 29th January, 2022 | KO 3pm | Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium
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HOOPS<br />
SANDERSON SEALS<br />
RANGERS MOVE<br />
QPR confirmed the signing of<br />
Wolves defender Dion Sanderson<br />
on loan until the end of the<br />
season just before Tuesday’s<br />
game against Swansea City.<br />
The 22-year-old, who can play<br />
in a central role or on the righthand<br />
side, emerged onto the<br />
pitch to greet <strong>Rangers</strong> fans prior<br />
to the 0-0 draw.<br />
Sanderson could make his debut<br />
this afternoon, having lined<br />
up against the R’s twice this<br />
season during his loan spell with<br />
Birmingham City.<br />
“This is the next stage of my<br />
development and I couldn’t be<br />
anywhere better than QPR,” said<br />
Sanderson.<br />
“I studied QPR, their style of play<br />
and how the gaffer likes to play,<br />
and it suits me so it just made<br />
absolute sense to come here.<br />
“I’m an aggressive ball-playing<br />
defender. I like a battle with any<br />
strikers – it’s part of my game. I<br />
might not look the biggest but I’ll<br />
give you a tough time.<br />
“The team are in a good<br />
place. Promotion is key but we<br />
have to take one game at a time.<br />
“Wherever the gaffer wants<br />
me to help, I’m willing to help –<br />
whether that’s playing or in the<br />
dressing room around the boys.”<br />
Sanderson, who has been on<br />
the books at his hometown<br />
club since the age of eight, has<br />
also had previous loan spells at<br />
Cardiff and Sunderland.<br />
DUO DEPART ON<br />
LOAN<br />
TWO younger members of the<br />
squad have been loaned out to<br />
National League sides until the<br />
end of the season.<br />
Defender Aaron Drewe, who<br />
made his first-team debut<br />
against Rotherham in the FA Cup<br />
earlier this month, will spend the<br />
remainder of the campaign at<br />
Weymouth.<br />
The 20-year-old made his<br />
Terras debut in their 2-1 home<br />
defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge<br />
on Tuesday.<br />
Midfielder Stephen Duke-<br />
McKenna has been loaned to<br />
Torquay and featured twice in<br />
their starting line-up this week,<br />
helping the Gulls to a 2-1 victory<br />
at Altrincham before a 2-0<br />
reverse against Solihull Moors<br />
three days later.<br />
WELCOME BACK,<br />
ANTON<br />
FORMER QPR defender<br />
Anton Ferdinand returns to the<br />
pitch at half-time today for his<br />
induction into the ranks of the<br />
Forever R’s club.<br />
Ferdinand, who had spent several<br />
years at the top level with West<br />
Ham and Sunderland before<br />
joining <strong>Rangers</strong> in 2011, made 49<br />
appearances for the club.<br />
The 36-year-old played in Turkey<br />
and Thailand prior to a twoyear<br />
spell with this afternoon’s<br />
opponents, <strong>Reading</strong>. He is now<br />
retired from the game, having<br />
ended his career with stints at<br />
Southend and St Mirren.<br />
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