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Queens Park Rangers chairman Tony Fernandes will order a major clear-out at Loftus Road this summer.

Fans' favourite Adel Taarabt is likely to be the biggest sale as QPR look to slash their wage bill as they prepare for life after relegation from the Premier League, with Julio Cesar and Loic Remy also in line to move on.

While manager Harry Redknapp is refusing to give up on survival until they are mathematically down, the odds are now stacked against the west Londoners pulling off a miracle after Sunday's dramatic draw with fellow strugglers Wigan.

Airline tycoon Fernandes has made it clear that he and the other wealthy members of the board will stay loyal to the club and will try to ensure they bounce straight back up from the Championship.

Fernandes wants Redknapp to remain in charge at Loftus Road and has already assured the 66-year-old that his job is safe.

But Rangers are determined to slash the sky-high wage bill in preparation for life in the Championship and will need a major fire sale to fall into line with Football League rules after gambling on big signings to try to keep the club in the top flight.

There could be as many as TEN first-team squad members set to leave QPR this summer.

The clear-out looks set to include Taarabt, who has fallen out of favour with Redknapp in recent weeks.

Turning his back on the last-minute Shaun Maloney free-kick that saw Wigan grab a point at Loftus Road and almost certainly doom QPR to the drop may have helped ensure he will make a speedy departure this summer.

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Redknapp insisted publicly that he did not blame Taarabt, but privately was left fuming with both the Moroccan forward and Stephane Mbia, who committed the needless foul which set the stage for Maloney's gut-punch of a leveller.

Taarabt claimed in January that Barcelona, AC Milan and Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala all wanted to sign him.

A host of other clubs - including Arsenaland Manchester United - have looked at the former Spurs playmaker in the past, but it is unlikely any offer will match the £12m Paris Saint-Germain bid for him last summer.

QPR are facing the prospect of having to slash the prices to get players off the wage bill, as most of their contracts do not include relegation clauses to automatically cut their wages in the event of the drop.

But they will not leave unless they either get paid off or another club matches their existing earnings.

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AC Milan are interested in Brazilian keeper Cesar, and QPR could have to go out and sign a new player at that position as Cesar's back-up, England international Rob Green, is also understood to be ready to move on.

There will be no shortage of interest in Remy, who cost £7m in January, and it is understood there is a fixed buy-out price in his contract, which means he is almost certain to go.

Arsenal are likely to consider Remy, who seemed to have won Sunday's game with a sensational 84th minute strike, while Tottenham have also been admirers of the France international.

Former Real Madrid midfielder Esteban Granero is also set to go after just one season, while striker Djibril Cisse - who has been farmed out on loan to the Middle East - is up for grabs, too.

Bobby Zamora, sent off in the first half against Wigan, will also be on his way.

England striker Zamora has been a disaster for QPR - his November admission that he did not particularly like football is understood to have incensed Fernandes, as it emerged just weeks after he'd been handed a £60,000-a-week contract.

There will be interest in former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas while QPR turned down an offer from Zenit St Petersburg for Chris Samba just weeks after signing the big centre-half from Anzhi in a £12.5m deal in January.

Samba is on famously on £100,000-a-week at Loftus Road and such wages may be the biggest stumbling block as QPR look to launch their summer clear-out.

But Fernandes admits that, whatever the outcome, there will be a shake-up of the squad in the close-season.

Fernandes said: "We will have to sit down with Harry and discuss who we want to keep and who would go. Obviously, there will be players that will go, regardless of if we stay up or go down.

"We want players who can give a lot to the club for a long time."

Jenas, 30, who joined from Tottenham on an 18-month contract in January, is ready to stick it out with the Rs, however.

Jenas said: "Everybody wants to be in the Premier League, but I am very happy at QPR. The club and fans have taken to me very well and we will cross that bridge if we come to it, but I would love to stay.

"Everyone at the club has accepted me, taken me after I was not in a great place in my career. QPR probably took a chance on me and it would be very harsh for me to go anywhere else."