Shaun Derry is keen to move on from Queens Park Rangers after dropping down the pecking order at the club.

Derry captained the team and made 28 appearances for Rangers last year, but no longer figures in the club’s plans after Mark Hughes’s summer spending spree.

At 34 Derry is running out of time to optimise his career and said to Open All Rs that he will be looking for regular football: “I need to be playing football and will try to play at some place.”

Competition for places is fierce in central midfield for the London outfit. Alejandro Faurlin and Esteban Granero were favoured in that position against Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. Stephane Mbia and Samba Diakite are also comfortable in that position as the ex-Crystal Palace man faces a struggle to even make the substitute’s bench for the R’s.

It was thought that many of Rangers fringe players would be sent out on loan once the Football League emergency loan window opened but so far no moves have materialised.