Queens Park Rangers underwent a mass turnover in the summer, but are they suffering from their losses?

Mark Warburton took charge of QPR in the summer. He’s got off to a good start with the West Londoners, who sit in 9th-place of the Championship and just one point off Bristol City in 6th.

Few expected QPR to be where they are in the table after 11 games after their summer transformation, which saw 14 players come into the club and 17 leave.

Some of those departures were first-team players - Luke Freeman and Massimo Luongo the two that QPR fans most wanted to stay at the club.

Both had been valiant servants to QPR. Freeman spent three seasons at QPR where he established himself as one of the league’s most creative players, picking up the club’s Player of the Season award last term.

Luongo joined the club in 2015 and played over 150 games for the club, forming a strong partnership with Freeman in the heart of midfield.

The Australian was more of a defensive midfielder though and since joining Sheffield Wednesday in the summer, fans at Hillsborough have quickly realised how good a player he is.

With Freeman now playing with Sheffield United in the Premier League and Luongo doing his thing in South Yorkshire, will QPR feel any sort of regret at the pair moving on?

Obviously it would've been nice to see them both in a QPR jersey this season, but the board were keen to relieve the wage budget with the pair's sale.

Taking up Luongo’s role as the ball-winning midfielder was Luke Amos. The Tottenham-loanee is highly rated by his parent club and was impressive for QPR before picking up an injury.

He’s only featured once since August, but Josh Scowen has been doing equally well in his absence.

Freeman left a creative void in the QPR team and to compensate, Warburton has made a change in tactics.

Last season, Freeman often operated behind a sole striker for QPR. This season under Warburton though, QPR usually set-up with three in midfield and two up-top.

It’s allowed the likes of Ebere Eze and Ilias Chair to play the central midfield roles, and the pacey pair have delivered in the opening 11 games of the season so far.

It was hard for fans to part with some of the departed in the summer, Freeman and Luongo in particular. They were big players at Loftus Road and left big boots to fill in their absence.

But so far under Warburton’s new system, QPR have developed massively from the team they were last season. New talents have emerged in West London, and new horizons lay ahead of QPR.

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