QPR boss Harry Redknapp hailed the character of Niko Kranjcar after the Croatian rescued a point against Stoke City.
Kranjcar, 30, helped QPR win promotion back to the Barclays Premier League last season before agreeing another loan spell for 2014-15.
"It was a great free-kick, they were bad challenges and he punished them," said Redknapp, who also had Kranjcar in his teams at both Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur.
"He came here and I think we pay a third of what he was earning in Russia, and they don't pay any of it, he took a massive cut in wages to come back here, that is how much he wanted to come back.
"It is very rare to see a boy do that.
"He had a massive, fantastic contract in Russia and wanted to come back here and play football."
