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FLW's Hoops fan pundit would like to know where the club is going under their current ownership

This article is part of Football League World's 'Terrace Talk' series, which provides personal opinions from our FLW Fan Pundits regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

QPR's current majority shareholder, Ruben Gnanalingam, has recently passed 10 years since he was named co-chairman of the club.

The Malaysian businessman has seen his stake in the club rise over the 14 years he's had involvement with the Hoops. He was a major shareholder when Tony Fernandes became chairman in 2011, was made co-chairman in 2015, and now owns 60% of the club, following Fernandes' sale of his entire share in 2023.

QPR have now spent a decade in the Championship, and haven't finished any higher than 9th in any of the last ten seasons. A new training ground was opened in 2023, and there have been murmurs of leaving Loftus Road for a bigger stadium, but ultimately, there hasn't been much to say that the current investment is truly going anywhere.

However, after a solid summer in terms of player arrivals and bringing in a top coach, some R's fans are dreaming of possibly contending near the top six for the first time since they went up in 2014.

Louis Moir, Football League World's QPR fan pundit, feels that if the club do go up, perhaps then Gnanalingam will look to move on.

QPR fan pundit questions current owner's goals

Moir started by crediting the current ownership for sticking with the club throughout this elongated period of transition in the Championship. Some clubs do struggle when coming down from the Premier League, and Gnanalingam and co have ensured that QPR remain stable.

However, questions now arise about what the next steps truly are.

"Our owners have stuck by the club, and I'll give them credit for that, but I think one thing I'm quite intrigued about is what their end goal is?" Moir questioned

"Considering they've been here for over a decade now, we've sorted a new training ground — is the next step to get a new stadium?

"I'd be really interested to see if, say, we got promoted, that'd be the time to sell now and maybe get more income in the Premier League. Maybe that's their way of saying 'that's our job done,'"

Everyone knows the amount of money a side makes when they get promoted to the top flight, which would give the QPR owners more assets to sell for what would then be a more attractive Premier League side to buy.

"After the mistakes they have made, to say that they've been able to get the club into a stable place and then back to the Premier League, I would love to know if that's the answer," Moir continued.

"Almost as if it's their way of saying 'we've gotten rid of the mistakes, got them to the Premier League, let's leave on a good note and look to say farewell,'"

"That would be interesting to me, because otherwise you could argue what the point is of sticking around if we're just a Championship team who aren't progressing.

"So my question to them would be: Is the goal to get to the Premier League, and then look to sell?"

QPR on the right track to finally attack the Championship play-offs once more

If, like Moir suggested, the goal is to bring the club back to the Premier League and then look to sell on, there may not be a better time for that to happen than this season.

The Hoops look about as strong as they have done for the last decade in terms of on-pitch personnel, and in the dugout, they have a manager who has engineered success in the top flight in France.

After a sluggish start, QPR are beginning to find their stride in the Championship this term, and it's looking likely that they could be one of the outsiders to challenge for a place in the top six.

The R's have finished in the bottom half in seven of their ten seasons in the Championship during their current stint, so it's been a long period of patience for their fans, but it may not be long before that patience starts to pay off.