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Chimbonda joins QPR ranks along with Routledge

ESPN staff
January 21, 2011
Pascal Chimbonda will now be playing his football in the Championship © Getty Images
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Discarded Blackburn Rovers defender Pascal Chimbonda has penned a short-term deal at Queens Park Rangers, with Newcastle United winger Wayne Routledge another addition, joining the club on loan until the end of the season.

Chimbonda, who was released by Rovers on Thursday after having his contract terminated, has signed a contract which keeps him at Loftus Road for the rest of the current campaign.

The Frenchman told www.qpr.co.uk: "This is a good opportunity for me to be re-born as a footballer. Neil Warnock has given me a chance here and hopefully I can help QPR win promotion to the Premier League.

"I had a good talk with the manager, and he told me he wants me to come here and give my best. He is a manager who likes to win, and I am the same."

Routledge returns to the club he left in January last year and, after struggling to excel at St James' Park, QPR manager Warnock is hoping the 26-year-old will play a starring role in the club's push for promotion.

"I think Wayne just needs an arm around him," said Warnock. "He is a super lad and a super player."

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