Flavio Briatore will do it his way...so do one!! hehe

Flavio Briatore will do it his way...so do one!! hehe
It is a cold Saturday afternoon in November and most league chairmen are tucking into their prematch meals before they put on their expensive overcoats and head for the best seats in the house. The odd man out is Flavio Briatore, the flamboyant Italian tycoon who, along with some of the richest men in the world, added Queens Park Rangers to his portfolio of business interests last year. If it is the first Saturday in November, it must mean that he is at the Brazilian Grand Prix watching Renault, his Formula One team, race for the final time this season. “I’m here to talk about anything you want,” he said. “Queens Park Rangers, football, Formula One, I’m all yours.” Briatore wants to get a lot off his chest. When he saved QPR from bankruptcy in August last year, the club’s fans were dancing in the streets around Loftus Road. QPR were about to become the richest club in the world thanks to Briatore and his billionaire friends, Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One commercial rights holder, and Lakshmi Mittal, the steel magnate. But progress has been slow, ignoring the dramatic transformation of the directors’ box and boardroom. “The directors’ areas outplush even Abramovich’s Chelsea,” Karren Brady, the Birmingham City managing director, said after her team lost 1-0 in London on Tuesday. “It’s the fantasy boardroom experience.” Cynics would say that the VIP areas, ticket prices, the club badge and the manager are all that have changed since London’s beautiful people started turning up in Shepherds Bush to get their fix of what Briatore likes to call boutique football. On the pitch, QPR made a decent but lacklustre start to the season and all hell broke loose ten days ago when Briatore sacked Iain Dowie. “I was not happy with the football that Dowie was producing, simple as that,” Briatore said. “I know what I am doing. I have won World Championships in Formula One. I have not come from the steel business or the finance business, I am from the sport business.” So, is there truth in the rumour that Dowie resigned when Briatore handed him a list of players he had to pick for the game against Reading on October 25? “It was just a normal discussion,” Briatore said. “The coach is important but the money is coming from us. If we had not made the decision about Dowie, the season could have been a big disaster. I’m not scared to make a decision. Not making a decision is often a bad decision.” Briatore wants Gareth Ainsworth to replace Dowie but his business partners are not convinced that the 35-year-old caretaker manager is the right man for the job, especially after Saturday’s 2-0 defeat away to Ipswich Town. Amit Bhatia, the vice-chairman, and Ecclestone are worried that Ainsworth is inexperienced and ten candidates, including Sam Allardyce, Steve Cotterill, Terry Venables, Roberto Mancini, Gianluca Vialli and David O’Leary, have been sounded out. “This is speculation,” Briatore said. “You give a chance to people who deserve it. Gareth deserves a chance. I gave Michael Schumacher a chance in Formula One, so it’s ridiculous we need someone with experience.” One of QPR’s best performances since Briatore arrived at the club was in West London six days ago. Down to ten men for half the game with most of Briatore’s favourite Italian players on the pitch, QPR beat Birmingham to climb to seventh in the Coca-Cola Championship. Briatore was roaring his team on and instructing Ainsworth and his players from the directors’ box. “In the papers they say that I choose the team but this is crazy,” he said. “I know I’m not a normal chairman but I can’t pick the team from Brazil.”

two words for flav fark off

He loves it Ade don't he...just wants more control than needed but things are so much more different than expected but I will say I knew it was never going to be the same again...as you said mate where has my club gone and I don't blame you and those other poor sods who go regular but remember Ade there were those who welcomed him and his changes with open arms and I suppose if you make your bed and all!! etc etc. I would be happy to see him and Bernie go and lets have Lakshmi Mittal and his people run it they seem to have the best interests of the club and fans alike and seem very genuine if you were to read the recent letters sent and the dropping of the pathetic seat costs at Loftus Road. SSB

my mate who is on the inside has said mittel will be making an offer to buy out tweedle dum and stupid within the next 14 days.i as many proper fans hope this comes off as the mittel's seem to be more interesed in success than just another playground for a load of italian mincers to pose around in their armani suits.the trouble is with short ass and flabby guts is they have no connection with ordinary folk and dont give a flying mclaren who they tread on to get what they want.ok mittel is a ruthless businessman aswell but he seems to know where our hearts lie intead of wanting to quaff copious amount of bollinger in the after match poncy directors lounge.we all want rangers up there amongst the big boys but not at the cost of completely obliterating our history and heritage.if flabby belly wants to do that then i suggest he fucks off with mini nme beside him and sticks to f1 or go and do 1

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