Queens Park Rangers manager Chris Ramsey hopes to sign eight more players before pre-season training begins on June 29 following their double swoop earlier this week.

The club agreed a deal worth up to £3.5million with Swindon for midfielders Massimo Luongo and Ben Gladwin and are in talks with striker Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, who is a free agent.

The release of 10 first-team players has shaved £11m off the wage bill at Rangers but has left them with a depleted squad after relegation. Ramsey said: “We want to make sure that whatever happens we don’t start pre-season with a shallow squad.

“We want to get most of them in before we start pre-season training on June 29. The last thing we want is still to be signing players a week before the season starts.”

Among the players who Rangers let go were experienced campaigners such as Joey Barton, Bobby Zamora, Rio Ferdinand, Richard Dunne and Shaun Wright-Phillips. Clint Hill, Alejandro Faurlin and Karl Henry have been offered new contracts on reduced terms and Ramsey admits the club had no choice but to take such drastic action.

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He added: “It’s always difficult when players leave clubs. You form relationships with them, albeit in a short period.

“The players gave their all to try to keep the club in the Premier League. We weren’t able to complete our task and the club finds itself in a position where it needs to look forward and go in a different direction, both with personnel and financially.

“It’s not always black and white over who you release or don’t. Given our situation, the club needs to drastically reduce its wage bill and change how we have conducted ourselves.”

Ramsey hinted that Dunne, who has had an impressive two seasons at the club, could still get a new deal, while Faurlin’s agreement still depends on his fitness. The midfielder suffered his third serious knee injury in as many seasons last August and missed the rest of the campaign.

Ramsey said: “He started to train with us towards the end of the season and showed an unbelievable appetite for the game.

“His recovery appears to be complete now and we will continue to take a look at his knee and see how it holds up.”

Meanwhile, Ramsey has revealed that Charlie Austin is the only Rangers player who has been the subject of enquiries from other clubs.