QPR worry over Chair, Dembele and Clarke-Salter injuries

Ilias Chair looks likely to be out for several weeks with the knee injury he suffered during QPR’s defeat against Middlesbrough – and there are fears Karamoko Dembele faces a lengthy spell out.

To make matters worse for struggling Rangers, it seems that Jake Clarke-Salter will remain sidelined for some time as well.

Chair, who missed the early matches of the season with a back problem, played on after suffering the injury in Tuesday’s 4-1 loss but had to be substituted at half-time.

Head coach Marti Cifuentes was reluctant to give details of the player’s condition on Thursday afternoon but admitted: “It looks like weeks.”

Cifuentes explained: “It seems that there is some injury in his knee, but the length and specifics of the injury I cannot tell you (until more is known). 

“I don’t want to say more than I should until I get the final results, but I will say that it looks like weeks. How many, I cannot tell you at the moment.”

Dembele, meanwhile, suffered a knee injury on the eve of Rangers’ recent goalless draw at Burnley. 

Michael Frey, Kenneth Paal and Morgan Fox will again be unavailable for this weekend’s trip to Leeds but hope to be fit by the time Rangers host Stoke after the international break.

But Clarke-Salter, who has been out with a recurring calf problem, currently looks unlikely to return by then. 

Harrison Ashby, though, has a chance of being involved against Leeds.