{"id":227192,"date":"2025-06-30T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227192\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:45:10","slug":"larkeche-given-new-qpr-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227192\/","title":{"rendered":"Larkeche given new QPR contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QPR have announced that Ziyad Larkeche has signed a new deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>West London Sport <a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westlondonsport.com\/qpr\/qpr-captain-cook-set-for-new-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>revealed in April<\/strong><\/a> that the left-back, who was on loan at Dundee last season and had a year remaining on his contract at Loftus Road, would be retained by the R\u2019s and given a chance in the first team.<\/p>\n<p>He was signed in 2023 after being released by Fulham \u2013 West London Sport had <a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westlondonsport.com\/qpr\/qpr-looking-to-replace-hamalainen-with-fulham-youngster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>revealed that Rangers were snapping him up <\/strong><\/a>and shipping out Niko Hamalainen.<\/p>\n<p>Frenchman Larkeche, 22, was at Paris St-Germain prior to being signed by Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>He made 27 Scottish Premier League appearances for Dundee last season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He was allowed to leave on loan as he was behind Kenneth Paal in the pecking order and QPR were keen for him to play first-team football.<\/p>\n<p>Paal recently left the club, with his departure having been on the cards for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Larkeche impressed during his time in Scotland and has long been earmarked by Rangers as a potential replacement for Paal at left-back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to give him every opportunity to make the step up in our set-up this season,\u201d chief executive Christian Nourry <a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qpr.co.uk\/news\/2025\/june\/30\/ziyad-larkeche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>told the club website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"background-color: white; color: #1b4f9c; padding: 8px 12px; border-radius: 6px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; white-space: nowrap;\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vb6d7gFFMqrQ21PR3Q1p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QPR have announced that Ziyad Larkeche has signed a new deal. West London Sport revealed in April that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,29670,79,14,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-qpr-latest-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773566117265731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}