Harry Redknapp’s only regret this year is not trying harder to bring West Brom’s Peter Odemwingie to relegation-bound QPR.

Rangers are facing up to life in the npower Championship after Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at home to Stoke left them 10 points adrift of safety with only four matches remaining.

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It has left previously upbeat manager Redknapp conceding defeat in his battle to stave off relegation from the Barclays Premier League but with few regrets.

The only thing the QPR boss wishes he had done differently is to have brought in Odemwingie, who saw a January move to Loftus Road collapse after his bizarre deadline day actions.

“I would not have changed an awful lot, really,” Redknapp said.

“I’d have probably tried harder to get the boy from West Brom, Odemwingie.

“He might have really given us something up there with Bobby Zamora not being 100 per cent fit. He might have scored four or five goals that make the difference.

“He did no different to what about 50 other footballers did on the same day. He made one big mistake. He was too honest, he turned up at the football club, he was silly.”

Another of the strikers Redknapp tried to bring in during the January transfer window was Stoke’s Peter Crouch.

As fate would have it, he helped condemn his former club to the drop by putting the Potters ahead late in the first half before winning the penalty which Jon Walters fired home.