Black country duo on QPR list

Black Country strikers Kevin Phillips and Freddy Eastwood are on the target-list of the Championship's new money-bags club QPR.

Albion promotion hero Phillips has been offered to the fast-changing Loftus Road club if they will meet his agent's demands for a two-year £20,000 a week deal.

At the same time, new QPR head coach Ian Dowie is considering a move for Eastwood, the £1.5m Wolves striker transfer-listed after his season of frustration at Molineux.

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Black Country strikers Kevin Phillips and Freddy Eastwood are on the target-list of the Championship's new money-bags club QPR.

Albion promotion hero Phillips has been offered to the fast-changing Loftus Road club if they will meet his agent's demands for a two-year £20,000 a week deal.

At the same time, new QPR head coach Ian Dowie is considering a move for Eastwood, the £1.5m Wolves striker transfer-listed after his season of frustration at Molineux.

Dowie and his former No 2 at Coventry, Tim Flowers, have been recruited by the three-pronged billionaire ownership group of Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Lakshmi Mittal who intend investing major funds to make Rangers one of the Championship's leading promotion forces next season.

They have already begun scouting for new players and Phillips and Eastwood are obvious and early contenders for recruitment.

Phillips' future at Albion is in doubt because chairman Jeremy Peace wants to restrict his offer to a one-year deal.

Phillips, 35 next month, wants a two-year agreement and feels his award-winning 24 goals from 30 starts during the promotion campaign has proved his fitness.

Eastwood is a target for Coventry who have held preliminary talks with his agent, but the prospect of a rival move from QPR is good news for Wolves in their efforts to recoup all of the £1.5m invested in him a year ago.

One tranfer which won't be happening despite reports claiming otherwise is Zoltan Gera to Everton.

Gera can have a free transfer this summer having run down his Albion contract. Although there is a new deal on the table for him from the Baggies, the Hungarian international is being wooed by other top-flight outfits.

Everton were one of his admirers - but manager David Moyes has confirmed to sources at Goodison that he feels a major financial investment in Gera at the age of 29 does not represent good value for money.