Valencia’s midfielder talks about his loan spell at QPR - ‘dad, we need to go back to Spain’ - playing for Unai Emery and the Europa League return against Arsenal
Dani Parejo didn’t just see that English football was different, he felt it. It was August 2008, he was 19, had just joined Queens Park Rangers and was only nine minutes into his debut, coming off the bench against Barnsley, but that was enough. He’s played 437 matches since then, but he hasn’t forgotten that day at Loftus Road. “The first time anyone tackled me was a direct red,” he laughs. “When I left the ground, I said to my dad: ‘where have we come to? We’ve got to get back to Spain’.
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