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Queens Park Rangers are embroiled in a tight relegation battle in the Championship, with eight teams still fighting it out to not end the season in the remaining two relegation places.

After Rotherham United’s relegation, two spots remain, with six points separating Millwall in 16th and Sheffield Wednesday in 23rd.

QPR had looked doomed at the start of the season under Gareth Ainsworth, but his replacement, Marti Cifuentes, has done a brilliant job in steering the R’s away from the relegation zone.

If QPR do avoid relegation to League One, then the club will be optimistic that they can push higher up the table if they can sign the players they need.

A problem position for them is at striker, and a player they have been linked with moving for is Kemar Roofe - and what would make this signing even better is if they can get him ahead of their rivals.

QPR are desperate for a striker like Roofe

Strikers have been a major issue that has plagued QPR all season.

When fighting it out near the bottom, the one thing you want and need is a striker who is guaranteed to score the goals that will help you stay up.

This is unfortunately something which QPR do not possess.

They currently have three strikers in their ranks, in Lyndon Dykes, Sinclair Armstrong, and January signing Michael Frey.

Between the three of them so far this campaign, they have scored just eight goals, with Dykes scoring four, Armstrong scoring three, and Frey scoring once. Only two teams have scored fewer goals in the Championship than QPR have.

With this in mind, a striker has to be top of Cifuentes and QPR’s priority list in the summer. If they are to push up towards the top half at least, they need a striker to score their goals, which Roofe can provide.

Roofe is a completely different profile of a striker to what QPR currently have at their disposal.

Dykes, Armstrong and Frey are similar to each other in the sense that they are all physical strikers who are crucial to the team's build-up and link-up play.

But Roofe is more of a poacher, he is a clinical finisher and is someone who can find space in small pockets and has great movement, so he could provide QPR with different options in the attacking phase of play.

He could also massively complement the likes of Ilias Chair with the amount of chances he creates, being able to play all kinds of balls forward for Roofe to latch on to. Only two players in the bottom half of the Championship have created more chances than Chair has so far this season (76).

For the way Cifuentes likes to play, Roofe represents a striker who is much better suited to it than the players currently at his disposal.

Signing Kemar Roofe will be even better if they can get him ahead of Fulham

One striker who has recently been linked with a move to Loftus Road is Rangers’ Kemar Roofe.

According to recent reports, Roofe is attracting interest from QPR and also Southampton, Sheffield United, and QPR’s bitter rivals Fulham

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It can easily be argued that Roofe would prefer a move to either of the other three over QPR, due to them all being currently in the Premier League, or pushing to go back to the Premier League.

But at QPR, Roofe would be the first-choice striker, which may be something he would relish. He has struggled for game time in the last two seasons in Glasgow and he has only played just over 400 minutes of league football this season.

Roofe is also a proven goalscorer, as shown by his first two seasons with Rangers, and also his time at Leeds United, where he scored 29 goals across three seasons with them in the Championship.

So if QPR managed to sign Roofe ahead of Fulham, along with the other two teams, it would be a massive coup - and a great way to start their summer transfer business.