QPR's new owner won't splash the cash like Roman Abramovich

Evening Standard

Tony Fernandes has been a West Ham fan since he was eight but the new owner of Queen Park Rangers is glad that his failure to buy the Hammers led him to Loftus Road.

We are in his elegant town house in the capital and the 47-year-old owner of AirAsia is telling me of his many efforts to take over West Ham stretching back five years.

"I tried before the Icelandic guys bought it," he says. "Then, when they had all their problems, I was in a bidding war with David Sullivan and David Gold but the Icelandic banks went for them. We approached them again when they got relegated in May and I upset Sullivan.