QPR's owner is richer than Abramovich but they won't be competing against Chelsea in the transfer market

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Queen's Park Rangers return to the Premiership will make their fans want to know is whether their rich owner will follow in the footsteps of Roman Abramovich. He is after all richer than Abramovich, indeed he is the richest man in Britain with a net worth of £24 billion ($39 billion).

But that's not how Lakshmi Mittal sees things. QPR will not be a passion for him as Chelsea is for the Russian and, ironic at it may seem, that should be of some comfort to the fans of the West London club.

QPR, as Mittal himself acknowledges, is a club with a "chequered past" and what a past. Located almost next door to the BBC, it has had the sort of drama that could well inspire one of the corporation's script writers. Since the club fell out of the Premiership in 1996, it has not only been in and out of administration but has had to cope with very unwelcome off the field headlines.