QPR v Middlesbrough: Pulis showing respect to loyal Boro boss Steve Gibson

Still assessing the squad which he inherited after taking over on Boxing Day, manager Tony Pulis is far more concerned with getting value for money from the players at his disposal and has ruled out any big-money arrivals.

The major activity is likely to be the other way with a significant exit arriving this week following Adam Forshaw’s sale to Leeds United.

Pulis said: “I don’t want to spend any of Steve’s money this window. What Steve (Gibson) has done in the summer, and the way he has backed the football club, is enough money to spend in one season. More than enough, in lots of respects.

“If we can get a few more out, then I might ask Steve for a couple of loans and see if we can push on with that and bring a couple in. But I feel I have a responsibility to the man to not just go in and say, ‘I want this’, ‘I want that’ and ‘I want everything else’.

“He has been a very loyal chairman to his managers in the past in respect of all the money he’s spent at this football club. I just want to give him the grace of looking at the group before deciding what we should do to move on.”

Boro face capital opposition for the second weekend running, with a sense of injustice still prevalent after an undeserved late loss to Fulham last time out in a game that the hosts dominated.

Pulis, who comes up against someone he knows well today in Rangers counterpart Ian Holloway, an ex-team-mate at Bristol Rovers in the early 1980s, said: “It was one of the most disappointing feelings I have had for a long time in coming off after a game of and getting beat (last week).

“Hopefully, we will take that into the (QPR) game to try and get three points.”