From Premier League to Championship relegation scrap for ex-Fratton star
He featured in the Premier League – now three-and-ahalf months later an eternal Pompey favourite is fighting to avoid relegation to League One.
Jamal Lowe’s desire for regular first-team football hasn’t quite gone according to plan after stepping into a QPR team in freefall.
Since his January arrival on loan, the 28-year-old has netted three times in 16 appearances for the Championship side.
Yet he has tasted victory just once during that period, while working under two different managers, as Rangers find themselves sucked into a relegation battle.
Having led the table on October 22, they have subsequently won two of their next 27 fixtures in all competitions.
Nonetheless, the attacker has failed to resuscitate a team now under Gareth Ainsworth, finding himself on the bench for the last four matches.
Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Coventry leaves Rangers one point above the relegation zone with four games to play.
Lowe’s Loftus Road switch was an opportunity to put himself in the window, having fallen out of favour at Bournemouth, with just four starts during the first half of the campaign.
In total, Lowe has scored eight goals in 40 matches since being recruited by Scott Parker from Swansea in August 2021.
Yet his time at the Vitality Stadium appears to be drawing to a close, particularly should the Cherries remain in the Premier League.
Pompey fans still fondly remember the Jamaican international, who scored the goals to win League Two promotion at Notts County in April 2017.
He also netted in the March 2019 Checkatrade Trophy triumph at Wembley as the Blues beat Sunderland on penalties.
However, he departed for Wigan in August 2019, having finished the 2018-19 campaign as 17-goal top scorer, totalling 30 goals in 119 appearances for the Blues.
Since then he has turned out for Wigan, Swansea, Bournemouth and QPR, establishing himself as a Championship performer, with 30 goals at that level.
Now Lowe is embroiled in a relegation scrap as he awaits the learn his future.