Flavio Briatore may have stepped aside, but I don’t think our problems have been solved just yet and we should proceed with caution.
The Mittal family may have upped their stake in the club, but they have also worked with Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone for many years. They know each other well and as businessmen, they’ve shared great success together.
Despite Briatore being a stubborn man, he won’t have made all of the decisions without consulting with some of the big names in that boardroom. A lot of the things he did would have been done with their approval.
Something inside me feels that Amit Bhatia and the Mittal family have been playing the devil’s advocate and a game of ‘good cop, bad cop’, just to keep the fans onside. The reality is, they along with Ishan Saksena, could make just as many unpopular decisions and changes as Briatore did.
People will say that Saksena has made a positive start with his statement, but how many of us know what he looks like? A lot of fans will have missed the fact that earlier in the season, he replaced Alejandro Agag as Managing Director. The official website barely gave this brief statement much air time on the front page.
Can Saksena really have fallen in love with our club in such a short space of time? Because lets face it, there’s not been a lot to love about QPR over these past couple of months.
So while there has been a reshuffle, what exactly has changed? What influence does Flavio Briatore have considering he is still a shareholder? How much have the Mittal family increased their shareholding by and whose shares did they purchase? What is Gianni Paladini’s role and responsibilities as chairman of the football club?
These are just some of the questions I’d like to see addressed, but we shouldn’t have to ask them. The club should be telling us what’s going on without the need to be pressed on this and I hope over the coming days and weeks that we’ll start to see a clearer picture of what the future holds and that communication across all levels within the club improves.
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