After one season in the Premier League, Queens Park Rangers were relegated back to the Championship ahead of the 2015/16 campaign.

Chris Ramsey took over from Harry Redknapp the previous year and led the R's into the second-tier looking to get them back to the top-flight at the first time of asking.

The Hoops boss was in charge of bringing in recruitments to the Loftus Road club ahead of a promotion tilt.

No fewer than 19 players arrived on permanent deals in the summer to replace the 16 that had left in the summer.

One such addition that the club could afford due to the Premier League’s parachute payments was Tjaronn Chery.

The Dutch attacker moved to London after the club activated his release clause at FC Groningen.

The 27-year-old signed a three-year deal at Loftus Road having been entrusted to score the goals to get QPR up the league and back into the top flight.

And the reaction to the signing was of positivity and expectation from the Hoops faithful. 

Chery described the move as a ‘dream come true’ and was handed the number eight shirt for the campaign.

Such was his reputation from the continent; he was named as one of the players to watch by Sky Sports in the 2015/16 iteration of the Championship ahead of the opening weekend of games.

He made his debut for the club in the 2-0 opening day defeat to Charlton on August 8, 2015, and notched his first goal for the club in the 4-2 win over Rotherham three games later.

Two more goals in his next six matches would see QPR in 11th after ten games after a solid start from the Dutchman. A baren spell would then come, however,

A run that latest 16 matches would see the signing be called into question by supporters before his form eventually picked up.

Seven goals in nine matches saw an upturn in form personally for the attacker and a slight improvement in results for Rangers.

Chery would end the season on ten goals in 41 games in all competitions as the London club finished in 12th place.

With the Premier League money keeping the club going, financial clawbacks were needed after years of frivolous spending to get to, and maintain, a place in the top-flight.

Chery’s second season was less than impressive.

He only made 25 appearances and four goals the following year.

He picked up more yellow cards, too, which would show he was more aggressive in his second year at Loftus Road.

It was a poor season with QPR finishing 18th in the league, and the player who arrived to much acclaim was struggling to prove his worth.

During his third and final year at Loftus Road, he failed to make a first-team appearance and come the January transfer window, with six months left on his deal, there was reported interest.

There were reports on January 13, 2017, that Chery had completed a move to Chinese Super League side Guizhou Zhicheng.

The report came to fruition 11 days later when it was confirmed that he had moved to the Asian side for an undisclosed fee.

The reaction to the departure was music to fans’ ears after the transfer that promised so much delivered so little.

Many of the R's’ fans had changed their tune about this transfer that was coming into a competitive division with a reputation and a mark on his back as being one to keep an eye out for.

It might have started well, but it got progressively worse as the weeks, months and matches wore on.

Chery’s stint in west London worked out for all of a season, but the following two campaigns offered little by way of proving that he was worth the money spent.

After so many years paying over the odds for mediocre players, that theme struck once more with that signing.