QPR chief executive Lee Hoos says it’s smarter to be financially gloomy than believe in a better tomorrow that might never come.

That’s why Hoos imagines the end of 2017-18 and a club with all the Premier League parachute money spent and still languishing in the second tier or worse.

Rangers realism extends to selling their best players to survive if they haven’t returned to the top tier and/or secured the go-head to build a brand new 35,000 seater stadium and complex on Old Oak, north of Wormwood Scrubs.

The chief executive insists a practical approach endorsed by the rest of the board and chairman Tony Fernandes is the only approach after eight years of overspending that leaves Rs in the Financial Fair-Play dock.

Hoos explained: “Four years down the road, and we’re looking at the worst case scenario. It’s always easier to look up than downshift.

“The worst case is we run out of parachute payments and bang! How we are able to adjust?

“It’s possible we become a stepping stone for some players on the up.”

Rangers budget last season was already a third less than the 2014-15 campaign that ended in relegation.

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