Queens Park Rangers close in on £10m Bobby Zamora

11 April 2012

Bobby Zamora was on the verge of being reunited with Mark Hughes today as the Fulham striker neared a ­£10million move to Queens Park Rangers.

Hughes is anxious to rebuild his attack around the 30-year-old who he worked with at Craven Cottage last season and has spent the month pursuing the striker.

Although Fulham chairman Mohammed Fayed has not been keen to do a deal with Hughes because of the way he left the club last season, it now seems the move will go through before tonight's 11pm transfer deadline.

Zamora has had a strained relationship with Fulham manager Martin Jol and the club appear to have paved the way for the striker to leave by making a move for Stuttgart forward Pavel Pogrebnyak.

QPR have only scored 22 goals in as many Premier League matches this season - the joint second worst tally in the top flight - and that is why new boss Hughes has been so keen to change his frontline.

Former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse was having a medical this morning ahead of a £4m switch from Lazio.

The club are short of fit forwards at the moment with Jay Bothroyd, Heidar Helguson, DJ Campbell and Federico Macheda all ruled out of the match at Aston Villa tomorrow night.

Standard Sport understands Hughes is also making a move for Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko and wants to buy him on a permanent basis for £7m.

Pavlyuchenko, who hasn't started a Premier League game all season, is desperate to leave White Hart Lane, although talk of a bust-up with assistant manager Kevin Bond is being played down at the club.

Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow are also interested and Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy will have to decide whether to make a huge loss on a player who was signed for around £13.8m from Spartak Moscow in 2008.

Fulham have also made a move to sign Hugo Rodallega, who is out of contract in the summer, from Wigan as a possible replacement, although Andy Johnson is believed to have also been offered as part of the deal.

Jol's side face strong competition from Spurs for Rodallega and the latter have the advantage of being able to hold talks with Wigan face-to-face as they play each other tonight.

Spurs hope to offload a number of fringe members of the squad with Vedran Corluka set to join Bayer Leverkusen on loan, while Steven Pienaar remains a target for QPR.

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