QPR want DJ Campbell back â but he may chose permanent move to Ipswich Town By Stuart Watson Friday, November 23, 2012 6:00 AM IPSWICH Town have made such a positive impression on DJ Campbell that he may spurn the chance to make it at his boyhood club come January in favour of signing permanently at Portman Road. CommentsEmailPrint.To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. .. The 31-year-old striker admits it was âdream moveâ to sign for Queens Park Rangers in 2011, but an injury-hit first campaign at the club he grew up supporting meant he was excluded from Mark Hughesâ 25-man Premier League squad and told to train with the reserves last summer. A three-month loan switch to Championship strugglers Ipswich, which has so far included four goals in eight games, has put a smile back on his face though. And although his parent club â bottom-of-table and without injured strike duo Bobby Zamora and Andy Johnson for the foreseeable future â have come calling, he is not sure if he wants to go back. âQPRâs representatives have contacted my advisors to express an interest in me coming back once my loan expires in January,â revealed Campbell, who could be added to a re-jigged 25-man squad in the New Year. âI kind of knew that they wanted me back not long after I joined here, but whether I want to go back after all thatâs happened I donât know. âBack in the summer the gaffer (Hughes) had his 25-man squad and everyone else was training with the reserves. I would like to think I am better than that â Iâve achieved a bit in my career and felt I should have been training with the first team. âIt did hurt. Iâd left Blackpool with a heavy heart to go to QPR because they were the club I supported as a boy, I went to watch them many times from the stands as a kid and always hoped that one day I would play for them. âTo go back there was a dream for me to be honest, but it didnât quite work out for me there last season and sometimes it just doesnât work out. Itâs not always a good idea to go back.â Ipswich Town may be locked in a Championship relegation battle, with fellow-strugglers Peterborough United visiting Portman Road tomorrow, but Campbell says that wouldnât put him off signing in the New Year. âI wouldnât do another loan â I want to move somewhere permanent,â said the former Blackpool striker. âUnless I play a certain number of games at QPR in the second-half of the season then I am out of contract next summer. âAnd to be honest I donât like doing the free transfer thing. I like to sort my future out for myself and my family earlier than that. âEveryone I spoke to recommended I come here and nothing has made me regret that decision. âIâve loved my time here so far. The fans have been good with me, there is a great bunch of players and the gaffer (Mick McCarthy) and TC (assistant manager Terry Connor) have a plan for the future. âThis is a great club, with great tradition, and I feel as if good things are going to start happening here. âA permanent move here would definitely be something I would consider in January. I am in a tough position really. Iâve come here and enjoyed myself, but QPR are a club close to my heart. Itâs something I need to think about seriously.â
I tweeted him a few weeks ago asking him tho return, got no reply I've felt since the WHU match that we needed players like Campbell instead of overpaid prima donnas who are injury prone. I hope he returns and scores 10 like he did for the Tangerines but seems like we may have spurned Campbell a bit too much.....
If he's still under contract with us after his loan, he's got no choice to come back. Sensationalist, lazy journalism at best. If we're still down on strikers and he plays, he'll get scoring gain and be a loft hero. Easy really
But players do have the ability to discuss what they want and clubs usually listen if a player is saying that don't want to play for them anymore. Of course, this more commonly has an effect when the contract is coming to an end. If qpr decide they want him then he has no choice but if he wants to stay at his loan club for the second half, they may arrange that for him. Really, I think they owe him that seeing as how they treated him with a bit of disrespect. With that said, it wouldn't hurt for him to try and save us and then leave us at the end of the season.
Yep, totally agree with you awjm, but I'd like to think that if whoever takes over, be it HR or someone else that they'd explore the option with him. Let's see what happens hey?