Queens Park Rangers have been widely tipped as relegation favourites after a terrible start to the season that included four straight losses to open the campaign. 

Manager Steve McClaren is at the helm of the Loftus Road club and surely feared for his job when his side failed to pick up any points in the opening four, but since then the R's have sort of bounced back, picking up four points in their last two fixtures.

Despite these four points, realists will know it is going to be a long old season for the Hoops and that avoiding the drop has to be the priority from here.

Whether they will do it is unknown, but the loan signings of Nahki Wells, Tomer Hemed and Geoff Cameron will certainly help the cause.

These three add to a bunch of QPR players that are young and inexperienced at this level, which potentially could cost McClaren's men.

If they are to stay up, we have picked THREE players who we feel are most valuable to QPR this season...

Often in the Championship, sides in the lower half have to rely on their youth set up to feed through players, noting their lack of finances. QPR have done that, and promoted youngster Eberechi Eze to the first-team setup.

He spent the first-half of last season on loan at League Two outfit Wycombe Wanderers, but his five goal haul from midfield inspired the QPR hierarchy to give him a chance, and he took that, as the youngster looked problematic for defences on all occasions.

Known simply as 'Ebere' rather than 'Eberechi', the 20-year-old player from Greenwich may not be a household name at this level by any means, but I predict he will have a positive season and could be a shining light in an otherwise bleak QPR side.

Although Massimo Luongo has looked a shadow of his former self this season, the Australian international is key to QPR's success.

He is best suited to playing in a three-man midfield, but McClaren is insistent on a 4-4-2 or similar shape, meaning the burden on Luongo is huge.

The Socceroo has the ability to carry out this role, as he looks to solidify QPR on the defensive, as well as using his locker of passing abilities to help out offensively.

The most important player for QPR, should they stay up, is the talismanic forward Tomer Hemed, signed on loan from Brighton in the summer.

QPR are not great defensively, but going forward they looked clueless in the opening weeks of the season. McClaren was forced to enter the loan market and made a shrewd signing in the Israeli international Hemed.

Once part of the Brighton promotion team, Hemed has the relevant experience in this division to know it extremely well. He is adequate in the air and has a natural instinct when it comes to finishing.

Should QPR stay up this season, Hemed will be the most vital cog to that.