flav speaks out

[themodfather]

again mentions our small £20
that they saved us
ground has improved
best players


ok....i pay just under £1000 then double for away days
saved us...true in a way but BILL POWER had a consortium ready and stepped aside for you...
ground improved?? for who? where? c-club is empty and so are exec boxes
big screen is a gimmick
best players...well i've seen stainrod,wegerle,bowles,gerry francis
and now see borrowdale,ramage and fitz hall!!!!

[qblockpete]

you are going back at least 20 years regards any of those players, you weren't even a teenager

[haqpr1963]

you are going back at least 20 years regards any of those players, you weren't even a teenager

A fair few of us knew where QPR played before we were teenagers mate......

[Olly]

A replay of this interview will be shown on the big screen saturday week, tickets are still available.

[alibabes]

arrogant ***** can do no wrong......in his own eyes



*allegedly

[PLYMHOOP]

Must admit I am glad he is here for the long Haul.... Rome was not Built in a day!

[LBLOCK]

Where dis den?

[80sCasual]

Must admit I am glad he is here for the long Haul.... Rome was not Built in a day!

Aha, but look at Pompeii, an italian ruin that people go to see and pay over the top prices to look at, not unlike us at the moment.

[LBLOCK]

Just found the article.

What a shame he didn't use that as a bit of a reach out to the TWENTY EIGHT POUND ON AVERAGE customers so we could draw a line under what was before and move forward together.

Oh well, brick batts at dawn

[themodfather]

he has gone back to our £20

we are the fanbase and again insulted!
he has been accused of delibrately asking DRIVER TO CRASH AT 180 MPH, FOUND GUILTY AND OVER TURNED ON A TECHNACALITY....he is our chairman, he choose to speak he could've built bridges

CMON HAVE A POLL THEN, WHO IN TODAYS / TEAM V BPOOL WOULD GET IN THE 80S LOT??
or the 90s team??

if flav thinks this current lot are the best we've or i've seen he is suffering delusions!

seaman
bardsley dpea**** maddix wilson
sinton barker gregory fereday
sir les c.allen

subs....wegerle,stainrod , wilkins,hazell ( i loved bobby) ,currie,parkes (gk)

compare that to what i see! and i paid £2 to stand and watch this lot, get promoted and get to 2 finals...

[stanistheman]

he has gone back to our £20

we are the fanbase and again insulted!
he has been accused of delibrately asking DRIVER TO CRASH AT 180 MPH, FOUND GUILTY AND OVER TURNED ON A TECHNACALITY....he is our chairman, he choose to speak he could've built bridges

CMON HAVE A POLL THEN, WHO IN TODAYS / TEAM V BPOOL WOULD GET IN THE 80S LOT??
or the 90s team??

if flav thinks this current lot are the best we've or i've seen he is suffering delusions!

seaman
bardsley dpea**** maddix wilson
sinton barker gregory fereday
sir les c.allen

subs....wegerle,stainrod , wilkins,hazell ( i loved bobby) ,currie,parkes (gk)

compare that to what i see! and i paid £2 to stand and watch this lot, get promoted and get to 2 finals...

FB really doesn't have a clue about how to apease fans.

Fair enough to him for buying the club (I don't know much about BP's consortium, but he didn't have his own money to properly fund QPR before.

Perhaps, FB thinks QPR didn't have good players in the 70s 80s & 90s. I suggest he actually watches the screen in the match build ups and some of the DVD's on sale in the Club shop (sorry, Superstore). He will see some of these players in action.

I am not totally anti FB, but wish he would stop insulting fans and appoint Curbishley and stop interfeering.

If he does these, and provides a proper transfer budget, Curbishley will take QPR up to the PL.

If Curbishley gets the job early enough. i.e this or next week, he could be in time to win promotion this season (probably via the P/Os.

[pkloft]

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/Flavio-Briatore-interview-exclusive-I-have-only-sacked-one-manager-and-am-committed-to-QPR-without-me-the-club-would-be-bankrupt-article291323.html

The tell-tale signs of an owner with the itchiest trigger finger in football are absent from Flavio Briatore's Knightsbridge office.

There are no pictures on the walls of managers with bullseyes painted on their foreheads.

No blood-spattered training ground tops to commemorate the men who have ended up face down in the street outside Loftus Road.


Not even any Garry Cook-style graphs with lines on them that the coach must not dip under.

Football's newest cartoon villain has been through nine managers in less than three years at QPR.

But after what he's been accused of in the last four months, taking a bit of stick because Paul Hart walked out after five games counts as light relief.

To be notorious in two high-profile sports is quite something but Briatore appears to wear the burden lightly.

In his manner, he does not seem diminished by anything that has happened to him in either Formula One or football.

The panache is still there. The old bravado is still there. The former Renault boss and current part-owner of QPR swaggers into his office near Harrods.

All around him on the walls are magazine covers. Him with Michael Schumacher, him with Bernie Ecclestone, him with practically everybody who's anybody.

In the reception, there's a glossy brochure with the words Billionaire printed on almost every page.

There are more pictures of Flavio in that. Flavio with Francesco Totti, Flavio with Gianluca Zambrotta, Flavio with lots of pretty women.

A lot has happened since those pictures were taken. He was labelled the most reviled man in sport after being accused of persuading Nelson Piquet Jr to crash his Renault deliberately during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.

And even though it's small beer compared to the F1 scandal, he's been going through managers at QPR so fast he's been accused of turning the club into a laughing stock.

A fortnight ago, he confounded his enemies in Formula One when a French court overturned his lifetime ban from motor sport.

In his first interview since he was enveloped by the Crashgate scandal, Briatore said he would never go back to Formula One as a team owner.

"It was a great victory for me in the French court," Briatore said. "I still feel bitter about what happened and for three or four months it was very, very difficult.

"I will never manage another team in Formula One in my life, this is sure, but I have got my dignity back which is important after 20 years in the sport.

"We had the report of FIA and the report of the stewards and there was not evidence that I was involved in the accident. This is official. Done by FIA. Simple."

But if Briatore insisted his involvement with F1 was over, he denied recent reports he was looking to sell the Championship club.

And even though Hart left suddenly last week, leaving assistant Mick Harford in charge, Briatore scoffed at the idea he had the itchiest trigger-finger in football.

"Nobody wants to sell the club," Briatore said. "Everybody wants to keep going and we are looking for the play-offs. We need enthusiasm, we need to believe it and I believe we have the players to do it. I am 100% committed to the club for the long term.

"Don't forget, QPR now have the kind of players they couldn't have dreamed of having before.

"Don't forget, too, that without us, QPR would have gone bankrupt. We have improved the stadium and we are doing the best for the club.

"We have to take it step by step. I believe we have the talent and the players to get into the play-offs. Mick will stay in charge until the end of the season.

"People forget very quickly what I did for this club. Some fans, because they pay £20, they want to criticise.

"It's very easy for me to walk away. I don't have any problem with that. We want to keep the club but somebody needs to remember QPR three years ago and look at it now. Some people are jealous. There's a lot of jealousy.

As for the itchy trigger-finger, he mentioned a hit-list in a newspaper and got it from his desk. It had nine names on it. The QPR Nine.

John Gregory, Luigi De Canio, Iain Dowie, Gareth Ainsworth, Paulo Sousa, Jim Magilton, Steve Gallen, Marc Bircham and Paul Hart.

These are the men who have been and gone since Briatore and Ecclestone took over the club when it was on the brink of bankruptcy in August 2007.

Briatore scanned the list. "People say I have not had a great run with managers but it's not true," he said. "I have only sacked one of them."

He went through them.

Gregory? Inherited him from a previous regime, Briatore said. Can't say he was fired.

De Canio? Left at the end of the 2007-08 season because his pregnant girlfriend wanted to go back to Italy. Can't say he was fired.

Dowie? "We had a...we didn't feel that...well, we sacked him," Briatore said.

Ainsworth? Only a caretaker. Can't say he was fired, Briatore said.

Paulo Sousa? He disclosed confidential information to the press about Dexter Blackstock being loaned out to Nottingham Forest and contract was terminated for breach of confidentiality. Can't say he was fired, Briatore said. It was Sousa's own fault.

Magilton? He left by mutual consent after a dressing room fracas with midfielder Akos Buzsaky. "I feel very sorry about what happened," Briatore said. "I had a fantastic relationship with him. I tried everything to keep him but it was difficult because everybody else was against him. I didn't feel good about what happened. We decided together to release the contract. He was a very good guy and he did a good job for us."

Gallen and Bircham? They were caretakers, too, and they're still at the club, Briatore pointed out. So they hardly counted as victims.

And finally, Hart, who, to general amazement, walked out last week. He wasn't fired, Briatore said. He quit.

"We had a meeting on the day before he resigned here at the office and it was a normal discussion," Briatore said. "There was no suggestion then that he was going to resign. Absolutely not. Not for me. I feel sorry because he is a good man."

This is the revolving door that has earned Briatore almost as much notoriety in football as he gained in Formula One.

That's why some joker texted the BBC website on Saturday night during Manchester City's defeat to Everton.

"City are shipping too many goals," the text went. "Mancini has had his chance - time for him to go." The texter signed himself 'Flavio - London'.


that's what i call "one arrogant C U Next Tuesday"

[haqpr1963]

What a really nasty piece of work young Flavio is showing himself to be......

Paulo Sousa? He disclosed confidential information to the press about Dexter Blackstock being loaned out to Nottingham Forest and contract was terminated for breach of confidentiality. Can't say he was fired, Briatore said. It was Sousa's own fault.

So, straight from the horses mouth we hear that the only reason Sousa was sacked, don't get me wrong what ever Briatore says he was sacked, was what he said about Dex moving to Forest without his knowledge. I wonder if Flav read Dex's comments on the Forest Offy? And, I wonder if some on here would like to comment on the truth of what they have said over the last few months?

As for his comments about us the fans.... Well, Mr Briatore, the only feeling I have for you is contempt. You are not the club, and you never will be. You are the temporary custodian of our great club, from what I have seen of you so far you will never understand what that means..........

[qblockpete]

Look at the timetable of events

Saying to the press in waiting, that you didn't know our best striker had gone to Forest, when you did, is quite serious.

don't you think??

[haqpr1963]

Look at the timetable of events

Saying to the press in waiting, that you didn't know our best striker had gone to Forest, when you did, is quite serious.

don't you think??

Oh dear........

Did you read what Dex said?

So do you agree with what Flav said?