Three clubs are to be considered by the Football League board next week after questions were raised about whether they met the ‘fit and proper person’ test. At Queen’s Park Rangers, Flavio Briatore may sell up rather than face another investigation by a sporting body after being thrown out of Formula One. QPR vice-chairman Amit Bhatia, the eighth-richest man in the world, has been letting it be known that he would buy Briatore out if he wanted to go. Briatore is thought to have paid £540,000 for his original 54 per cent shareholding.
Three clubs are to be considered by the Football League board next week after questions were raised about whether they met the ‘fit and proper person’ test. At Queen’s Park Rangers, Flavio Briatore may sell up rather than face another investigation by a sporting body after being thrown out of Formula One. QPR vice-chairman Amit Bhatia, the eighth-richest man in the world, has been letting it be known that he would buy Briatore out if he wanted to go. Briatore is thought to have paid £540,000 for his original 54 per cent shareholding. At Notts County press revelations about some of the people involved in the takeover has led the Football League to examine the County case in some detail before approving the takeover. There are also increasing concerns about Leeds, two years after Ken Bates brought the club out of administration. Bates is said to have admitted in a Jersey court that he was not the owner of the club, but declared he could not reveal the identities of the investors behind the true owners of Leeds, a company called Forward Sports Fund registered in the Cayman Islands.
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