Fulham close in on QPR playmaker Adel Taarabt

Fulham manager Martin Jol has confirmed the club are closing in on signing QPR playmaker Adel Taarabt.

The 24-year-old only penned a contract extension last summer, but the club’s relegation to the Championship cast doubt on his future at Loftus Road.

He was left out of Harry Redknapp’s squad for the Championship opener against Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend and Jol has confirmed that he is due at Fulham on Tuesday to undergo a medical ahead of a proposed move to Craven Cottage.

“We agreed everything with the club so the only thing we have to do is a medical,” Jol said.

“If that is sound and good, he will join us. The medical will be tomorrow.

“I like his creativity and, of course, sometimes it comes off when he scores a lot of goals and I think he was involved in 40 goals [during the 2010/11 Championship promotion season].

“It is like Dimitar Berbatov – sometimes these fantastic talents will be blamed but I hope to find a way to gel him in together with the boys we’ve got.

“I think he can do a hell of a job for us because is a tremendous player on the ball.”

Jol signed Taarabt when he was manager of Tottenham in 2007 and is a fan of the club.

“I have known him now for a long time. When I was at Hamburg, I wanted him but thought the money Daniel Levy asked for was too much,” he explained.

“Then I went to Ajax and I thought it was too much for a player that never played.

“Then I was too late after that because he went to QPR, where he did ever so well.

“Remember the fact he was an over £10million player 12 months ago, so I think you have to take them when they are bad and hopefully he will show his potential here.”