QPR may miss out on target

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QPR boss Mark Hughes’ hopes of signing Chris Samba in the summer could be about to disappear.

Rangers failed with two bids for the centre-back during the January transfer window and were expected to try again at the end of the season.

Hughes was keen to sign Samba.

But several of today’s newspapers include a story that Samba, who played under Hughes at Rovers, may be sold to Anzhi Makhachkala before the Russian transfer deadline.

A number of papers also follow up Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas’ comment that club owner Roman Abramovich asked him about his team selection after the midweek defeat against Napoli.

Villas-Boas left Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Michael Essien out of his starting line-up for the game.

The Sun cover the story with the headline ‘Why did you drop them?’

Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph suggest Jose Mourinho may return to Chelsea – if he apologises to Abramovich for wringing £18m compensation out of him when he left Stamford Bridge in 2007.

And The Daily Mail say Villas-Boas wants to offer Salomon Kalou a new £80,000-per-week contract.

Kalou’s current deal expires at the end of the season and he is said to want assurances that he is likely to get regular first-team football.

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