QPR have announced today that Adel Taarabt will stay for the coming season.

A club statement on behalf of majority shareholders Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore read:

'We are pleased to confirm that Adel Taarabt will be staying at QPR this summer.

"Despite receiving a substantial bid for our Moroccan international, we rebuffed all approaches and indeed, we are keen to build for the future in the Barclays Premier League, and not sell one of our prized assets. "Should we have decided to sell Taarabt this summer, we made it clear to Neil Warnock that we would reinvest funds into the squad.

"Taarabt is fully committed to the Club and is looking forward to proving his undoubted star quality for QPR in the Barclays Premier League.

"Our decision not to sell him only serves to reiterate the ambition and commitment we have both shown to QPR since we arrived here."