Charlie Austin will only leave QPR for an 'established Premier League club'

Perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the summer transfer window was that Charlie Austin stayed in the Championship.

Despite being part of a relegated Queens Park Rangers outfit, Austin scored 43 percent of his sides goals - 18 in 35 starts - last season, and averages a goal every 106 minutes in the second-tier so far this campaign.

Numerous clubs were reportedly interested in the bricklayer-turned-England squad member, including Crystal Palace, Leicester City, and West Bromwich Albion, but nothing was good enough for the Hoops or its prized asset.

"I wanted the club to be established. I didn't want the club to be pushed on me," he told the Telegraph.

"I spoke to Les (Ferdinand, QPR director of football) and said 'Les, if the move is not right then I am not going.' But I knew on the other hand that he had to do everything possible to get the best for Queen's Park Rangers."

Austin was true to his word, and will now look to fire the Loftus Road outfit back into the big time.

"I told him that if I was here on 2nd September, I would be giving 100 percent to help drive the club forward to get promotion. That is the goal now."

His contract is due to expire at the end of the season, so it is likely to be his last with the club.

"It has come up over the summer so that is another little hurdle you have to negotiate. I just feel that if something comes up and the club is the right one for me to go to, that will be it. The ones that came up this summer were not right for me."

The 26-year-old has been excluded from Roy Hodgson's latest England squad, with a big reason touted to being his status as a Championship player, but while he would love to represent his country Austin's focus lays very much with his club commitments.

"To replicate what I did last year would have been another priority for me. If the reward was (Euro 2016), then great. My main goal would have been trying to score goals for the club I was at."

So far so good for the former Burnley striker, and if he continues his good run of form in the Championship there is no way Hodgson can keep him out of his plans for long.