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Post by QPR Report on Jul 15, 2009 11:39:14 GMT
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Briatore put the brakes on Ecclestone's plot to buy Roma and chose QPR, says FIFA agent By Ashley GrayBut it could have been so very different if the colourful Italian had followed through on an original plan to buy Roma. There was always a surreal quality to Briatore turning up at Loftus Road with billionaire F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone and Indian industrial tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, the world's eighth richest man. And it seems the middling Championship club were in fact their second choice. Argentine FIFA agent Luis Ruzzi has revealed he was brokering a deal for Briatore and Ecclestone to buy cash-strapped Serie A giants Roma until negotiations became complicated and they took their billions off to west London. Driving seat: The Renault boss chose QPR bid over complicated Roma takeover 'I am very close to Bernie Ecclestone,' said Ruzzi. 'We have been friends since I used to organise the Argentine Grand Prix.' Ruzzi explained how 78-year-old Ecclestone had wanted to buy Roma from the Sensi family. 'He was concerned,' said Ruzzi. 'So me and the representative of the Sensi familiy, Gianroberto De Giovanni, went to lunch in London with Ecclestone and Briatore, who was to be the chairman. 'Ecclestone wanted to buy the club, but Briatore wanted to think it over. The operation was too complicated. A few weeks later the two men bought QPR.' www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1199846/Flavio-Briatore-brakes-Bernie-Ecclestones-plot-buy-Roma-chose-QPR-instead-says-FIFA-agent.html
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Post by cpr on Jul 15, 2009 12:02:08 GMT
So Bernie was the driving force behind the takeover.
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Post by QPR Report on Jul 15, 2009 12:25:17 GMT
Which is what he said in some interview.
Maybe I dreamed it, but I thought it was all Gianni's initiative
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Post by cpr on Jul 15, 2009 12:26:36 GMT
Exactamundo!!! Slowly the truth creeps out eh.
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Post by QPR Report on Jul 15, 2009 12:28:03 GMT
I was very hard on Caliendo when he was at the club. But he's the guy who seems to have taken the biggest hit/the biggest financial bath from the involvement at QPR. Whereas Gianni doesnt seem to have done too badly in the end.
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Post by londonranger on Jul 15, 2009 13:08:38 GMT
Well,read that piece three times. Nowhere does it say that Ecclestone was the driving force in buying QPR.
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Post by Macmoish on Jul 14, 2010 6:36:59 GMT
Bump: Just one of the versions out there!
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Post by Macmoish on Jul 13, 2011 6:45:18 GMT
Bump...Again this is not the "Definitive" version. Who knows which version is!
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