Warnock warns Taarabt

QPR manager Neil Warnock has advised Adel Taarabt to focus on his football.

Taarabt has often been outspoken about his career ambitions and has seen his manager grow increasingly frustrated by his lack of focus on QPR.

Warnock believes the young midfielder currently has too many people influencing his thoughts.

“He has to work for Adel Taarabt, not these people,” Warnock told reporters.

“Like quite a lot of professionals in the game, especially those from abroad, they get a lot of people around them or what I call ‘advisers’.”

“As I said to Adel, if you finish in football next week you might find you lose one or two of those ‘advisers’.”

“It would be easy to toss him to one side, but I have a lot of time for him and he is a lovely lad.”

Taarabt was linked with a move to French giants Paris Saint-Germain in the summer and while Warnock admits the player’s future may not lie at Loftus Road he hopes that if a move does happen it will be for the right reasons.

“He is honest for a young lad. It is hard for him when people put a lot of things in his mind,” Warnock said.

“They won’t make him better and I think it is a shame. Adel can always make money but he is better than that. I will be sad if he ends up going to make some money because I think he has great ability.”