Queens Park Rangers have a deal in place to sign Jermain Defoe when the transfer window reopens in January.

Rangers boss Harry Redknapp is confident Defoe will move to Loftus Road from FC Toronto on a three-year contract worth around £90,000 a week.

Defoe has always been a Redknapp favourite — the 67-year-old signed him for both Tottenham and Portsmouth. The 32-year-old looked likely to join forces with him again in the summer after Toronto agreed an £8million deal — only to pull the plug at the last minute, insisting they would only sell the striker in January.

Redknapp said at the time: “We tried all day with Jermain. He was keen to come. We agreed a deal with Toronto but they wouldn’t release him. There is every chance he will come in January. Almost certainly, I think we will go back in for him. I’ve signed him so many times. I’ve taken him everywhere.”

Defoe originally signed a four-year deal with the MLS side. But the move rapidly backfired when his former-Spurs team-mate Ryan Nelsen, who persuaded him to leave England, was himself sacked as manager by the Canadians.

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Defoe then suffered a series of injuries and came under increasing criticism for not being the marquee signing Toronto had hoped for. When his deal to return to England broke down in the summer, Toronto president Tim Leiweke raged: “I don’t think Defoe will come back. If he doesn’t want to be here, you get rid of him.