Harry Redknapp: We don’t need to get rid of our best players

 
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Giuseppe Muro26 April 2013

Harry Redknapp today claimed Queen Park Rangers will not be forced to sell their key players this summer and does not expect a mass clear-out.

QPR could be relegated from the Premier League this weekend and a number of their big-money signings have been linked with summer moves away from Loftus Road

Redknapp has already started planning for life in the Championship but when asked whether there will be a player exodus, he said: “Not really, no. We will only let people go who we want to let go. The ones we want to keep, I am sure we will keep them. People have got contracts.

“We have got the summer so we have got to come up with the right people to go with the good people we have.

“There are enough good players here to give us a good platform but it will be really tough. You can’t go down and think you are going to walk straight through the Championship and come back up. There are so many good clubs in that division.”

Loic Remy is one of the players being linked with a move, with Arsenal reportedly interested in the France international. “That will be difficult [to keep him],” admits Redknapp. “But we will have to sit down with him and see what his plans are. We would like to keep him, obviously. He is a player I think could score 20 goals in a full season in the Premier League.

Redknapp confirmed that Rangers have received no offers for goalkeeper Julio Cesar and insists his players have not given up ahead of Sunday’s trip to Reading.

“I am looking at people with next year in mind so it is important,” he added. “The players have all got a lot to play for. We need a team that can get us back in the Premier League.”

Andros Townsend will miss the game at Reading after returning to Tottenham to receive treatment for a hamstring injury. Redknapp hopes the on-loan midfielder will be fit for next weekend’s home game against Arsenal.

Redknapp believes Joey Barton could still have a future at QPR despite the midfielder making it clear he wants to stay at Marseille when his loan deal expires this summer.

Rangers are in talks with Marseille over a deal but Redknapp said: “If it does not work out and he has to come back, he will be a good player here. He belongs to the club, if he has to come back then he has to come back.”

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