CLUB STATEMENT. Flavio doesn't want Lippi.

[Zamoraaaah]

CLUB STATEMENT
Posted on: Thu 21 Oct 2010
Following speculation in today's press, we would like to confirm that stories linking Marcello Lippi with Queens Park Rangers Football Club are completely unfounded.

The Board of Directors - including Bernie Ecclestone, Amit Bhatia and Flavio Briatore - are 100 per-cent behind Neil Warnock and will continue to be so in the future.

We will be making no further comment.

www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~2191591,00.html

[eskey8]

Dear oh Dear!

[Lonegunmen]

Oh?

[Jon Doeman]

That old expression shit-stirrer springs to mind!

[Macmoish]

Coming Next: The vote of confience!

[Markqpr]

Oct 21, 2010 10:50:32 GMT Zamoraaaah said:

CLUB STATEMENT
Posted on: Thu 21 Oct 2010
Following speculation in today's press, we would like to confirm that stories linking Marcello Lippi with Queens Park Rangers Football Club are completely unfounded.

The Board of Directors - including Bernie Ecclestone, Amit Bhatia and Flavio Briatore - are 100 per-cent behind Neil Warnock and will continue to be so in the future.

We will be making no further comment.

www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~2191591,00.html

;D ;D ;D ;D

Bet Amit and Lakshmi were banging their heads on their desks when they first read Flabio's comments!

He's really not helping or will ever seemingly understand how to run a football club.

He is an absolute joke. An almost cartoonish caricature of a tyrant. Pathetic at the very least.

[cpr]

Don't see the point of that statement, better off ignoring the loon like most sensible people were doing.

[Lonegunmen]

1xfoot + 1xmouth = 1xOrange Donut

[manta]

I doubt little Ern even knows or cares who the current manager is let alone saying he's supporting him.

Anyway glad it's all rubbish and hopefully Mr Briatore can pursue is interest in fast cars and women and left football matters to those who know what they're doing.

[magyarangol29]

I was under the impression that you guys got rid of this joker a while back???

Can the enlightened on here educate me with regards to what percentage shares are owned by who etc?

Cheeers?

[cpr]

If only we knew!!!!

Rumoured:-

Briatore & Ecclestone 70%
Mittal & Bhattia 20%
Fukknose 10%

Or something completely unlike that ;D

Bhatia & Briatore own the ground through their loaning company.

Or they don't.

[Zamoraaaah]

Oct 21, 2010 11:54:05 GMT magyarangol29 said:

I was under the impression that you guys got rid of this joker a while back???

Can the enlightened on here educate me with regards to what percentage shares are owned by who etc?

Cheeers?

I'm not sure what the percentages are but the story Flavio sold some of his shares a while back was a load of cobblers made up to placate everyone.
He stepped out of the limelight and has taken a back seat but still owns his share.

Paladini *spit*, who you may have seen mentioned every now and then is there to keep an eye on Flav's investment but thankfully no longer has any influence on the playing side.

[klr]

Embarrassing & unnecessary.

Whats worse, is that the Italians have an impeccable track record of destabilising QPR when things appear to be going well, almost appears as if they have ulterior motives for wanting the wheels to come off.

One would hope that the players put a performance on for Neil Warnock on friday, to prove who the real boss is for the players & the fans, not these ridiculous, dishonest & unecessary Italians & their "Italian Way" of doing business.

[Macmoish]

"The Training Ground Was Not Closed"
"QPR Have No Interest in John Gregory"
"We Have No Intention of Selling the Club"
"Blackstock..."

I could find quite a few past "official statements" that don't stand the light of day.

If they're going to issue a statement, they should address the specifics of what Briatore reportedly said. Did he say them. If he did, what did he mean.

[eskey8]

I believe he did say those word's - I do believe he didn't mean them, it was just said in Jest. However you would expect a man of his experience to have been a bit careful with what he says'

[Markqpr]

The club's statement is pretty clear and precise.

I don't see why it should be compared to other statements we found questionable to say the least.

Flabio would not be getting his name in the papers in this country if he hadn't bought us right now, so at least he's getting some return on his 1m a month investment/loan/costs/gift/loss/folly/whatever....

That's all this is. Apart from now being a mountain instead of a molehill.

[Macmoish]

I guess it's sort of like Gianni joking, when he said to (a sick) Ian Holloway "'You F***ing bastard I am going to kill you. I am going to kill you, you F***ing bastard..."

[londonranger]

Always like their closing statement "
There will be no further comment"

Has that Winston Smith declamatory quality.

[Macmoish]

Especially-evident after said that after Sousa terminated and Briatore then continued to speak on the subject!

[magyarangol29]

Hmmm, I'm now even more confused

Bhatia & Briatore own the ground through their loaning company?

Briatore & Ecclestone 70%
Mittal & Bhattia 20%

My god lads, this has CPFC (last season) written all over it.

Your club is now stabilised, has some great players in the squad, has the best manager in the league, you're riding high and sitting at the top of the table and then................................. silly ballocks puts in an appearance again.

I feel both your pain and anger trust me!!!!

[Lonegunmen]

Oh? Are you ITK? lol

[cpr]

Oct 21, 2010 13:15:32 GMT magyarangol29 said:

Hmmm, I'm now even more confused

Bhatia & Briatore own the ground through their loaning company?

Briatore & Ecclestone 70%
Mittal & Bhattia 20%

My god lads, this has CPFC (last season) written all over it.

Your club is now stabilised, has some great players in the squad, has the best manager in the league, you're riding high and sitting at the top of the table and then................................. silly ballocks puts in an appearance again.

I feel both your pain and anger trust me!!!!

You would indeed know Mag, it's called orange donut !!! ;D

[Bushman]

He just can't help himself can he .
A complete and utter clown.

[Hogan]

Oct 21, 2010 10:50:32 GMT Zamoraaaah said:

CLUB STATEMENT
Posted on: Thu 21 Oct 2010
Following speculation in today's press, we would like to confirm that stories linking Marcello Lippi with Queens Park Rangers Football Club are completely unfounded.

The Board of Directors - including Bernie Ecclestone, Amit Bhatia and Flavio Briatore - are 100 per-cent behind Neil Warnock and will continue to be so in the future.

We will be making no further comment.

www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~2191591,00.html

So if these rumours or stories are completely unfounded and the board of directors are completely and 100% behind NW why have the said directors not clarified if the reported comments of Flab were made by him, not made by him, or they were misconstrued?

[Hogan]

"........stories linking Marcello Lippi with Queens Park Rangers............."

Is it that Lippi was linked with QPR or that QPR were linked with Lippi?

Who wrote this and why was it written this way?

Can someone with a good understanding of written english help explain this, or does it not matter which way round its written?

[canadaranger]

Nearly a case of "Loose Lippi sinking ship, eh?"...

[Macmoish]

And just to also put that Kelly/Mail Piece here

Des Kelly/Daily Mail
Stop being Lippi and back boss, Flavio
Queens Park Rangers sit on top of the Championship. They look a revitalised force on a mission to rejoin the elite for the first time in 15 years.

That is largely down to their manager Neil Warnock, who is seeking to repeat his uncanny knack of achieving promotion by chasing the seventh of his career.

There is no doubt Warnock has made a brilliant start to the season. So how has he been rewarded?

Let's ask Flavio Briatore, QPR's disgraced former chairman. You'll remember him as the man who scurried for cover after being implicated in the Singapore 'Crashgate' cheat scandal.
It turns out, the Italian had a brilliant plan to motivate his manager.

Not content with having been accused of orchestrating a deliberate car crash in Formula One, Briatore seems intent on driving QPR's promotion push into another brick wall.
He said that if Warnock's side reached the Premier League, he would install Marcello Lippi as boss.

Briatore blurted: 'Bernie Ecclestone and I have a 70 per cent stake in QPR.' (Since he didn't specify the cut, I'm guessing that split is Bernie 69 per cent, Big Mouth 1 per cent.)
'And if we were to get into the Premier League,' he continued, 'I have a dream - and that is to have Lippi as coach.'
How dispiriting it must be for Warnock to know that if he leads the club back into the top flight an investor will seek to replace him.

During Briatore's time as chairman at Loftus Road, Rangers became a football joke, using 12 different managers and caretaker bosses in a little over three seasons.
Rumours even circulated that managers were expected to abide by team instructions faxed in to them from the sunbed of a yacht moored somewhere in the Mediterranean.

It is surely no coincidence that as soon as Briatore disappeared from the scene, QPR shot to the top of the table under Warnock's effective stewardship.

Naturally, having seen the Italian's remarks, QPR tried some damage limitation, issuing the following statement: 'The board of directors - including Flavio Briatore - are 100 per cent behind Neil Warnock.'
Indeed. It's much easier to push someone from behind.
But just like Briatore, Rangers supporters also have dreams. They dream of reaching the Premier League. And they dream that a certain perma-tanned pillock would shut his trap, stop pretending he knows something about the game, and leave the manager to carry on his good work.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1323033/Des-Kelly-Wayne-Rooney-prove-deserves-new-deal.html#ixzz13ArHP400

[Macmoish]

Mirror's Michael Calvin
Neil Warnock is not everyone’s cup of Yorkshire Tea.

He can be a cartoon Tyke, but I’ve a soft spot for him.

Warnock was in character, laughing off suggestions he is keeping the QPR ­manager’s seat warm for Marcello Lippi.

The suggestion came from Flavio ­Briatore, the posturing buffoon who uses Formula One as a Scalextric set.

More brass than brains, as they say in Scarborough.

www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/michael-calvin/Michael-Calvin-column-Why-I-fear-for-Tottenham-star-Gareth-Bale-when-the-vultures-of-Real-Madrid-and-Italy-start-to-circle-in-coming-months-and-have-a-huge-soft-sport-for-Neil-Warnock-article611555.html#ixzz13DuIxXu6

[Macmoish]

From a Sunday Independent of Ireland piece by Dian Fanning about Malcolm Allison, Manchester City's Board and Rooney...Numbers game has changed but the dream stays the same"

Sunday Independent of Ireland/Dion Fanning

"...Stan Bowles was at City at the same time as Allison and had a fist fight with him before he left and ended up at QPR.

Bowles was once said to "symbolise nearly everything that mature spectators regard as wrong with today's game". I interviewed Bowles a few years ago in a pub in Brentford. Bowles was late for our 11.0am appointment and while I was briefed, as journalists like to say now, by a man from Wexford who was in there having a settler, a few others pointed out that it was very unlike Bowles to be late. As a gambler, Bowles knew that tardiness could be costly. Unfortunately, being punctual was even more expensive.

Shepherd's Bush has always been the Irishman's stomping ground, with Goldhawk Road, a tattered boulevard for crazy dreamers and crazies who had run out of dreams.

Loftus Road has accommodated them all and in recent times the crazy dreamers are in the boardroom with men like Flavio Briatore. QPR are top of the championship and have appointed an unlikely manager in Neil Warnock. When you have had nine managers in three years (two of whom have been there twice), then you're bound to have had one or two who were unlikely.

Last week, QPR posted a statement on its website that said: "Following speculation in today's press, we would like to confirm that stories linking Marcello Lippi with Queens Park Rangers Football Club are completely unfounded."

In an interview to an Italian magazine, Briatore said he had a dream. In it he saw QPR in the Premier League where they would be managed by Marcello Lippi. The "unfounded stories" had come from the co-owner but the club denied them just the same.

Football is used to treating words as an inconvenience or as part of a negotiating position. They have never taken them seriously.

Things weren't any better in the past, some just survived it. But football was always about destroying the weak. There was no pastoral care in the golden age.

When Allison died, some said there were no personalities left in the game anymore. What was last week about but gripping, complex personalities? Their flaws are apparent to everyone and the mature spectator might think they are all that's wrong with today's game. But even the mature spectator is never bored.

[e-mail]

www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/numbers-game-has-changed-but-the-dream-stays-the-same-2392388.html

[Macmoish]

I'd say: If Briatore has power, the Lippi comments (or some over "Overseas Name" Coach) has more legs than QPR are saying...