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Charlie Austin says he is focused on having a good season with QPR and will not be looking for a move away from Loftus Road in the January transfer window

QPR striker Charlie Austin has told Sky Sports News HQ he will wait until next summer to move to another club, when he is a free agent.

Austin has been linked with a move to Sam Allardyce's Sunderland and is not ruling out going to any part of the country, although any imminent departure seems unlikely.

"I can't see myself leaving in January, because I'm concentrating on playing for QPR," Austin said. "I think I owe it them and my loyalty is with them, to help them and get promoted.

"Football is a small career and you have to make the right decisions, the right moves, and if it's right for myself, and my family and the people I bounce the ideas off then I will take on anything."

The striker was speaking at the launch of the Charlie Austin Football School, which will offer football coaching to boys and girls aged 5-15 years old of all abilities at schools in Berkshire and Wiltshire.

Austin is hoping the experience will give him the skills needed when he starts taking his coaching badges in the future.

Charlie Austin: QPR striker scored 17 Premier League goals last season
Image: Austin has been called up by England over the last 12 months but doesn't expect to get a Euro 2016 place

"I would like to do my coaching badges, obviously I'm not thinking about that at the moment but down the line it's nice having this going the way it is and obviously I'm at QPR and we have some top coaches there," he added.

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Austin scored 18 goals for QPR in the Premier League last season and has seven goals in nine appearances for the Championship side during this campaign.

The 26-year-old picked up a hamstring injury in QPR's 4-0 defeat against Fulham on September 25th.

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He has been out for four weeks, but hopes to make a return in the Brentford game on Friday, saying he is "70 to 80 percent confident" he will be involved.

In May, Austin was called up to the England team for the first time for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland and for a Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia, but admits he will not realistically earn a place for the Euros as he is no longer playing in the Premier League.

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