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Setanta Briatore sets promotion target by Chris Stanton, 19 November 2007
Queens Park Rangers’ joint owner Flavio Briatore has targeted promotion to The Premier League within the next four seasons.
By Briatore’s own admission QPR seem more likely to be battling it out at the wrong end of The Championship during this campaign.
However the ambitious Formula One supremo believes Luigi De Canio’s side, who have been out of the top flight since 1996, will regain their status by 2011.
“The objective this season is survival but in the next three years we will be aiming for promotion,” said Briatore.
Far-fetched speculation has linked Rangers with Briatore’s countrymen Alessandro Del Piero and Francesco Totti but the Loftus Road club are unlikely to be welcoming any big names to Shepherds Bush just yet.
“The transfer market is closed and it is useless to speak about it,” said Briatore.
“At this moment, purchases do not interest us - it would be like putting Schumacher behind the wheel of a machine that does not work.” Setanta
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