Leroy Fer attacks for QPR against Sunderland in the Premier League in February

Leroy Fer is desperately hoping to make his return for QPR against Fulham on Friday after a four-month injury lay-off.

The Holland international has not made a first-team appearance since the final day of last season when already-relegated Rangers lost 5-1 at Leicester City.

A knee problem has not only kept him out of the first six weeks of the current Championship campaign but it also scuppered a potential summer move back to the Premier League to join Sunderland.

Now 25-year-old Fer has told the club website he is fully committed to helping QPR mount a promotion push - starting on Friday night at London rivals Fulham, a game you can see live on Sky Sports.

The midfielder came through 60 minutes of action on Tuesday with Rangers' under-21s side in a 3-1 win over Crewe, and is now desperate for head coach Chris Ramsey to include him for Friday's trip to Craven Cottage.

"I have found it really difficult because I am a player that always wants to play football," Fer said.

"It has been a frustrating injury which kept going on and on, but hopefully I can be involved now on Friday."

Fer is stretchered off with a knee injury against Sunderland

Fer, QPR's second-highest goal-scorer last season, with six, has watched from the sidelines as his team-mates have earned 12 points from eight fixtures to sit just below the play-offs places.

He was one of several players expected to leave Loftus Road following relegation, but after the loan move to Sunderland fell through, the Feyenoord academy product says his focus is now on the Championship with QPR.

"Every player wants to play in the highest league and at that time I had the opportunity to play in the Premier League," he said.

Fer takes on Leicester's Marc Albrighton in his most recent game for QPR in May

"When I came back I said to the gaffer, to Les Ferdinand and to everyone, that I want to get QPR back to the Premier League. That's where we belong and that's the division I want to play in.

"That is why I have been doing everything I can to get back. I want to give 100 per cent and be important for the team - I want to get us back up."

QPR managed to keep hold of other stars such as Charlie Austin, Matt Phillips, Rob Green and Sandro, and Fer is itching to join them in the promotion push.

"We have a really strong team," he said. "I don't want to be putting pressure on us, but with this team we should go up.

"We have got players with a lot of ability, players who were here last year and new players who have made us stronger. We need to do everything we can to get back up."

He added: "It is going to be a long, hard season but if we stick together we can help each other out, and be successful. We are going to do everything we can to get one of those promotion places."