Tony Fernandez Interview Part One.

[MYU]

Bloke needs a good shoeing.

Flavio and Bernie are saints compared to this utter turd of a chairman

And fans wanted them out too, we now have a board that have put money on the table and they want them out now. It don't matter who takes over next, people will want them gone as well.

[Rangersw12]

More PR and Spin. What is so exclusive about this interview? What did he actually say other than harry is staying (which has already been announced), the air asia thing (to tug on the heart strings) and then a bit of flattery by by saying how QPR fans are intelligent, smart and fair. I make that some textbook PR

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[Scott Jones]

The last nutters left us with zero debt, excluding what was left of the ABC loan in The Premiership

this lot managed to take a debt free premeirship club and turn them into a probably twice relegated championship sitting club with more debt than a small country.

they are either evil or the most incompetent football owners the English leagues have ever seen.

At times I wish they were evil...whatever tney are they should be chased out of W12, out of england, out of europe and back to the second world countries they normally operate in

[1QPRDK]

The last nutters left us with zero debt, excluding what was left of the ABC loan in The Premiership

this lot managed to take a debt free premeirship club and turn them into a probably twice relegated championship sitting club with more debt than a small country.

they are either evil or the most incompetent football owners the English leagues have ever seen.

At times I wish they were evil...whatever tney are they should be chased out of W12, out of england, out of europe and back to the second world countries they normally operate in

Go watch Chelsea

[1QPRDK]

Go watch Chelsea

Sorry I forgot. You already do.

[oldhoop]

The last nutters left us with zero debt, excluding what was left of the ABC loan in The Premiership

this lot managed to take a debt free premeirship club and turn them into a probably twice relegated championship sitting club with more debt than a small country.

they are either evil or the most incompetent football owners the English leagues have ever seen.

At times I wish they were evil...whatever tney are they should be chased out of W12, out of england, out of europe and back to the second world countries they normally operate in

Well you really are an expert! You seriously think that Flavio, Bernie and Gianni were better for QPR than Tony and Co? Clueless!!!

[jmelanie]

His heart isn't in question, it's his understanding of running a football club as a business. The owners have pumped millions into the club, I bet they're as pissed off as us, which is why I find it staggering the off field team is pretty much the same from the day they walked in!

My opinion is Tony is a nice guy, that needs to change. I want a ruthless chairman who runs a tight ship behind the scenes and that process can only start with a ruthless CEO, somebody who knows how to run a football club (that's their job, right?).

If Tony could take the non playing Flavio approach, I think we have a perfect chairman. Notice I said non playing, by that I mean, having a ruthless mindset in business and running it that way but not trying to do everything or anything to do with the football side of things.

Tony has already got that right in my opinion, he backs and trusts his manager and lets them get on with it, which is perfect in my opinion. If he could become more ruthless, I feel we have the perfect chairman and the club would be in a tremendous position.

The money a club gets for being in the PL nowadays is enormous, I think we'll get roughly £80 million for TV revenue alone this season. It was reported in May last year, our wage bill when we went down in our previous PL campaign was £78 million. I believe it's lower now, not my much mind but a lot of our players earning mega bucks have either left or have their contract coming to an end. The point I'm trying to make is, TV revenue should pay for the wages of a good, solid, mid table PL team who are always finishing around 8-10th. Realistically, you should have change from that £80 million too!

I'm not sure on how much you get for finishing position this season but last season for an 8th place finish you got £15.6 million, 9th was £14.4 million and 10th was £13.2 million.

You also get paid £750k per live TV game. The minimum amount of times every club was in a live TV game was 10 a few seasons ago, I'm not sure if that's still the case. If it's still the same, there is another £7.5 million.

So with a 10th place finish and the minimum amount of live TV games, we have another £20 million, coming into the club.

Under FFP rules for the PL, you're allowed to lose £105 million over 3 seasons, effectively £35 million a season. Let's say we're border line on the losses, that would be £55 million available and not breaking FFP rules.

We then have match day revenue which must be around £10 million for the season. We then have all other income streams.

Obviously, we have non playing staff to pay but as shown above with the amount of money coming into football clubs nowadays, it should be very easy to have a competitive squad, improve it every season by having a very decent transfer budget and still be comfortably complying with FFP rules.

It's vital we stay up this season and within a few years, the club could easily been running at a profit per season.

Stay up, turn the club upside down off the field and account every person's job. Do we need so many office staff, for example? Every penny saved off the field, can improve the squad. I'm not saying sack everyone but it's a business, run it like one, every penny should be accountable and if that means having one less cleaner, or one less box office staff member then so be it.

The incoming money is staggering and all this nonsense about needing a 40,000 seater stadium to compete is nonsense. Will it help? Of course it does but a club can easily comply with FFP and even run a profit while comfortably being a PL team with a lower capacity stadium.

Swansea get 20,000 every week and charge far less than we do, have a decent transfer budget every season and improve their squad and run at a profit. They posted a profit of £15.3 million in accounts published 2013 and £21 million in 2014. They got promoted the same time as we did!

How is this going to work when all of the top teams in the premiership tend to lose at least 50-60 million a season. These teams have been in the premiership for years, get TV money every year and still make enormous losses. Yet they still pay out enormous amounts of money in transfers. I think for example Arsenal made the second highest loss in football last year (and didn't really win much), Manchester United and Liverpool (this was before they got the money from Suarez) were close behind.

[Mattyqpr]

How is this going to work when all of the top teams in the premiership tend to lose at least 50-60 million a season. These teams have been in the premiership for years, get TV money every year and still make enormous losses. Yet they still pay out enormous amounts of money in transfers. I think for example Arsenal made the second highest loss in football last year (and didn't really win much), Manchester United and Liverpool (this was before they got the money from Suarez) were close behind.

The figures aren't out for last season yet but you're well wide of the mark. Arsenal always run at a profit. This was before TV revenue almost doubled too.

For season 12/13 Arsenal recorded a profit of £7 million. All details are in the link below.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/premier-league-accounts-club-by-club-david-conn

[wortonranger]

The last nutters left us with zero debt, excluding what was left of the ABC loan in The Premiership

this lot managed to take a debt free premeirship club and turn them into a probably twice relegated championship sitting club with more debt than a small country.

they are either evil or the most incompetent football owners the English leagues have ever seen.

At times I wish they were evil...whatever tney are they should be chased out of W12, out of england, out of europe and back to the second world countries they normally operate in

I do find this borderline offensive and agree with 1QPRDK that these are the sentiments one would normally expect from a Chelsea fan -but for your information, the Second World refers to the post war communist states -I hardly think Tony and Co would have gone down well there. Just thought you'd like to know.

[lymehoop]

The last nutters left us with zero debt, excluding what was left of the ABC loan in The Premiership

this lot managed to take a debt free premeirship club and turn them into a probably twice relegated championship sitting club with more debt than a small country.

they are either evil or the most incompetent football owners the English leagues have ever seen.

At times I wish they were evil...whatever tney are they should be chased out of W12, out of england, out of europe and back to the second world countries they normally operate in

wow, don't agree with any of that

[Scott Jones]

OK to be politically correct they are classified as "developing"

If you want to use the pre WW2 specific definition then China are "Second World". Now, I hardly think that a nuclear power that owns the USA government financially is "second world"

A low cost airline in that part of the world makes Ryan Air look like Virgin Atlantic.

Now if Michael O Leary bought us and made such a monumental hash of it I'm sure we would tell him to pish off back to Ireland or something. Me asking these ####ing idjiots to #### off back to their second world countries...

Or should I say one of THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRIES ON PLANET EARTH OFFICIALLY..

I can sleep safely with

[Hitman34]

Well you really are an expert! You seriously think that Flavio, Bernie and Gianni were better for QPR than Tony and Co? Clueless!!!

compare their records then you will have your answer.

[Fraggy]

Really? - You are reading back what you are saying before hitting the post button W5?

[Scott Jones]

nah not really my colonist friend.

Just stating the facts.

Truth is fans are idiotic if they are ok with this board let alone "businessman" tony fernandes

Makes Ecclestone look like a saint

[James1979]

Used to like listening to Tony......now just find a bit depressing