Intro:

Queen's Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp looks ahead to the New Year's Day English Premier League visit of Swansea City - and discusses his hopes for 2015 - at a news conference in London on Wednesday (December).

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Harry Redknapp, Queen's Park Rangers manager (on the possibility of signing Mauro Zarate on loan):

"Well it....he is a player that we have been talking about the possibility of loaning so it is not done yet, no."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Harry Redknapp, Queen's Park Rangers manager (on Swansea City):

"They are a good side.I think Garry (Monk) has done a great job with them and he has just carried on really from where they were, you know. They have had excellent young managers in the last few years and they have all gone on to do great things - and he is another in that line so, you know, he has carried on the way they have played in the last five or six years."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Harry Redknapp, Queen's Park Rangers manager (on the side's form at Loftus Road):

"It has been fantastic for us Nick you know. We have been difficult to beat at home and even the (Crystal) Palace game..it wasn't a classic by any means but it is a point and you have just got to keep clawing out points at home. But the whole situation changes in the second half of the season. We play all the top teams at home in the second half of the season. The first half of the season we played all the teams in the bottom half, and so then we go away to all the teams in the bottom half this year - in the second part of the season."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Harry Redknapp, Queen's Park Rangers manager (on his hopes for 2015):

"2015...just looking really away from football for a peaceful year in the world Nick (reporter), like everybody really you know. Just good health to everybody and the families and that is about it really. Football-wise...staying in the (english) Premier League hopefully. Keeping QPR up, that is my personal selfish one really, you know."