Mark Warburton drops Premier League claim about QPR player

QPR boss Mark Warburton has claimed that midfielder Sam Field has the potential to play in the Premier League in the future. 

The 23-year-old joined permanently from West Bromwich Albion in the summer after impressing on loan in the second half of last season but missed the early part of 2021/22 due to injury.

Having returned to fitness in November, Field has become a mainstay in Warburton’s starting XI despite the plethora of midfield options available to him at the moment and is clearly a player that the R’s boss rates very highly.

Speaking to West London Sport ahead of the defeat to Blackburn Rovers, the manager discussed Field’s injury issues and made a bold claim about his future.

He said: “He had a frustrating knee issue, which sort of carried on a little bit and they tried to treat it but they didn’t quite get there. He had that nagging at the back of his mind.

“He literally went into a tackle with Dom Ball on a Thursday before our opening game of the season and the decision was quite rightly made by the medical team here to get the work done.

“He had that frustration but he’s come back with the peace of mind that the problem has been resolved when before he was always waiting for it to break down again.

“He’s got that comfort and he’s showing what a good player he is. He is still very, very young but his work ethic, his application, his reading of the game, I think I said it at a post-match press conference recently that everyone’s talking about our attacking players but I have no doubt that Sam Field can go and play in the Premier League.”

The likes of Rob Dickie, Chris Willock, and Seny Dieng have all been linked with a move to the top flight over the past year or so but such reports have yet to emerge about