Briatore: ‘If you don’t fire these coaches, you never go up’

Former QPR co-owner Flavio Briatore has defended his running of the club and admitted he did not enjoy his time at Loftus Road.

And, speaking to F1 Racing magazine, he also defended his infamous hiring and firing of managers.

“If you don’t fire these coaches, you never go up,” he insisted.

“When you understand someone is not good enough to do the job, it’s better you fire them immediately rather than waste another six months.

“I felt we were going nowhere with these guys. In the end, we made it. The most important thing in sport is the result.”

The Italian believes his spell at the helm, which ended in promotion to the Premier League, should be regarded as a success.

He said: “We took QPR from the bottom of the Championship.

“There was a four-year plan and we took them into the Premier League. I don’t understand the fuss. We did it with not much money.

“After Bernie [Ecclestone] and I went away leaving Mr Lakshmi Mittal and Mr Tony Fernandes to run the show and spend a lot of money, it’s funny to see they still have six or seven players who were with us in the Championship.

“I believe we did it quite well but, I tell you, it was no fun at all. You need to treat football like a full-time job and not like an investor.

“There were too many people; the manager, the assistant manager and, always, you were dealing with the agents. In the end, we sold it.”

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