QPR spot answer to goalkeeping fracas but face Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn Rovers competition

QPR could rival Championship foes Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn Rovers in a transfer race for highly rated Dundee goalkeeper Jon McCracken this summer.

Julien Stephan has had somewhat of a nightmare between the sticks at Loftus Road this season, flip flopping between first choice goalkeepers. The Frenchman initially ousted last year’s number one Paul Nardi for rising star Joe Walsh at the beginning of the campaign.

Walsh then suffered a broken wrist with Nardi returning. Ben Hamer was then snapped up as a free agent and had a run of matches. Now, Walsh is back in the XI, but did recently concede 11 in a run of three matches.

Signing a player to own the first choice goalkeeper role seems a priority this summer and Football League World believe that McCracken could be the man. The 25-year-old is out of contract at Dundee this summer and is set to be available as a free agent.

McCracken has played every match for Dundee in the Scottish Premiership this term and his stock continues to rise with two Player of the Match awards in the last two games against Motherwell and Dundee United.

QPR target ‘increasingly likely’ to make move to Championship

The outlet adds that the player’s ‘athletic’ ability has caught the attention of Championship clubs and that it looks ‘increasingly likely’ that McCracken will pursue a move to England.

The goalkeeper does have experience in the EFL, having come through the ranks at Norwich City. McCracken never played for the Canaries first team but did feature in League Two during loan spells at Stevenage and Accrington Stanley.

Speaking about his breakthrough season at Dundee and manager Steven Pressley, McCracken said in January: "It's obviously been a really good season for myself, the gaffer has come in and given me that responsibility that it's your gloves to lose. That's been refreshing because I wasn't the gaffer's signing so that's always a pleasing factor, and I've just really enjoyed it.

"The majority of the defenders are the ones that were here in the building last year, apart from Drey Wright. We've pretty much got the same boys that were here last year, we've improved a lot in terms of that.

"But it's not just the back four and the goalkeeping. Defensively, as a team, we're looking really hard to break down and I think results have sort of shown that, hopefully we can continue that."

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