Elijah Dixon-Bonner out: The 2 QPR players surely eyeing an early January exit | OneFootball

We took a look at the QPR players who will be eyeing a January exit from Loftus Road

The start of January brings the opening of the transfer window, and QPR, like the other 23 teams in the Championship, will be looking to bolster their squad this month.

The Hoops endured a tough start to the season but have turned things around in recent weeks to create some breathing space between themselves and the Championship relegation zone.

While Marti Cifuentes will be eyeing potential reinforcements to help move them up the Championship table during the second half of the season, there will also be players on the books at Loftus Road who will be hoping to leave in January in search of regular game time.

With that in mind, FLW have identified two QPR players who could be eyeing a January exit.

Elijah Dixon-Bonner

Elijah Dixon-Bonner joined QPR in October 2022 after being released by Liverpool that summer, but he's struggled for regular first-team football at Loftus Road.

He made just one appearance for the Hoops in his first season, before making 26 in all competitions last season, but crucially just nine of those were Championship starts.

He put pen-to-paper on a new deal at Loftus Road in the summer, and the expectations were that he'd kick on from the 26 appearances he made last season, but it's not quite transpired like that for the 23-year-old.

The midfielder has made just a handful of appearances for the Hoops as a substitute in the league, and he's predominantly been an unused substitute when included in the matchday squad this season.

In hindsight, it looked like a strange move to extend Dixon-Bonner's contract when he was far from a first-team regular in the first place and his lack of game time this season suggests that it was a poor call from the QPR hierarchy.

The length of Dixon-Bonner's new contract hasn't been disclosed, but as he signed a one-year deal in the summer of 2023, it wouldn't be a surprise if it was the same story again.

It doesn't look like Dixon-Bonner will play regularly for QPR during the second half of the season, and it wouldn't be a surprise if he wished to move on this month in search of regular first-team football.

Daniel Bennie

18-year-old Daniel Bennie joined QPR's Development Squad in the summer, but he's exceeded expectations and made a number of appearances in the Championship for Cifuentes' first-team this season.

The early signs are that the winger could be an important player for the Hoops in the years to come, but given his lack of starts and his status as a fringe player, the youngster could be eyeing a loan move.

Bennie is one of those players who isn't quite a first-team regular, despite playing 25 A-League matches for Perth Glory in Australia prior to his move to west London, but he won't benefit from playing U21's football, so a loan move to a club in a lower league would benefit him going forward.

While he scored just one goal in 25 appearances last season for Glory, Bennie showed enough to suggest that he's a player who can make an impact at Championship level in the future.

With that in mind, a loan move to a club in League One or League Two where he's playing regularly would stand him in good stead for the coming years, and put him in the frame to start for QPR when the 2025/26 season gets underway.