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QPR owner Fernandes shrugs off West Ham disappointment

QPR owner Tony Fernandes says he's now over his bid for West Ham United.

Fernandes attempted to buy West Ham before QPR, a proposed deal which he said went "spectacularly wrong".

"I had a couple of goes and it went pretty spectacularly wrong," he said.

"The first time we wanted to own 100% of the club and Straumur wanted to keep 50%. They were the bank that took over from the Icelandic owners."

On current owners David Sullivan and David Gold, he said: "They pipped me the first time and then the second time we tried to do something together and that went pretty wrong."

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