Flashback: Gianni - We Don't Need No CEO!

Just off the top and a hundred, two hundred more to come (if one was so inclined)

: A flashback From October 2005 Kilburn Times/Ben Kosky interview with...Gianni

"....fail, I put my hands up and goodbye. If there's someone out there who thinks they can do a better job, buy us all out."But why didn't they come before, when the club was in a lower division and they'd have had to pay the taxman's bill or the club would be closed down and forget about promotion?"

QPR have been losing money for several years. Can you see the club breaking even or even making a profit in the near future?"

Forget the past - it's up to us now and there's no more sweet sugar daddy, it's all on the shoulders of myself and my other partners, Barnaby and Wanlock. I'm protecting my own investment and by doing that, I'm protecting QPR as well, simple as that.

"We'll try to take this club forward and make sure that, in a year or two, we run it as a profit-maker. If we lose money at the end of the season, there won't be the old situation where I need to borrow this or that - it's our fault and we put in money out of our own pockets."If we are successful, QPR are successful, the fans will be happy and there's no secret agenda, no skeletons.

"....How is the club being run since Mark Devlin was made redundant?"

We got rid of the chief executive position because I think we couldn't afford it. I don't follow the idea of a chief executive or managing director or general manager - it's our money, it's our job to be here and make sure the club is run properly."

When I came here there were 54 people on the staff and the wage bill was bigger than the wage bill of the playing staff - how can you sustain that?

Now everything functions okay and the club is under control."I've been 30 years in football and I'm here every day. There are others who are employed by the people from Monte Carlo and they pay their own way - it doesn't cost QPR anything."