Queens Park Rangers announce Tom Carroll and Benoit Assou-Ekotto loans

Queens Park Rangers have announced that both Tom Carroll and Benoit Assou-Ekotto have been taken on season long loans from Tottenham Hotspur.

BREAKING: Highly-rated @SpursOfficial youngster @tom_carroll92 has signed a season long loan at #QPR #WelcomeTom pic.twitter.com/I187JmWp2H

— QPR FC (@OfficialQPR) September 2, 2013

BREAKING: #QPR can confirm the season-long loan signing of @SpursOfficial defender @AssouEkotto #WelcomeBenoit pic.twitter.com/1X4xBsXjrL

— QPR FC (@OfficialQPR) September 2, 2013

Both reunite with Harry Redknapp, who they played with when he was Tottenham Hotspur boss previously. Assou-Ekotto currently has just one year left on his contract, so we might have seen the last of him in a Tottenham Hotspur shirt.

Redknapp has been trying to get Niko Kranjcar as well, but that hasn't gone through as far as we know. That might mean that Carroll gets an opportunity to play higher up the pitch for QPR, If he plays in the center of midfield, he'll be competing for a place with his former teammate Jermaine Jenas, as well as Joey Barton.

We can only hope that Carroll nails down a place in a team that plays good football and does well in the Championship. It's not an ideal loan, but it'll do.