IF anyone needed reminding about the best – perhaps only – way out of the financial predicament Rovers have put themselves in, then it came yesterday with the release of the figures that showed how much each Premier League club earned from playing in the top flight last season.

Newly crowned champions Chelsea took top billing with a record-breaking haul of £99m.

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But equally eye-watering were the amounts made by the three clubs who were relegated.

QPR and Burnley raked in £65m from their sojourns in the Premier League while Hull City made £66m.

The riches on offer for promoted clubs are now greater than ever before.

But to get back to the top flight Rovers are going to have to improve significantly on the performances they produced in 2014-15.

However, with a Financial Fair Play embargo weighing heavily on their shoulders, that will be easier said than done.

Not that Rovers can have anyone but themselves to blame.

They were not a member of the Football League when the FFP rules were first announced in April 2012.

They were, however, aware of what would happen if they overspent in their first season back in the Championship.

But that did not stop Rovers from paying out the best part of £40m in fees and wages during that disastrous first summer following relegation.

It was a gamble that backfired badly and it is why the club, up to now, has had no choice to but to swallow its medicine while attempting to pick up the pieces.

Rovers, though, must change their current subservient stance if QPR are not punished too.

It was galling to see the newly relegated Hoops splashing out £3.5m on Swindon duo Massimo Luongo and Ben Gladwin last week.

As they were in the Premier League last season, QPR are entitled to make signings for cash.

But it still leaves a bitter taste in the mouth seeing as they are yet to suffer any form of sanction for breaking the same rules that Rovers were found to have broken in the 2013-14 season.

As Rovers remained in the Championship, they were embargoed.

As QPR were promoted to the Premier League, they were supposed to be hit with a fine.

But as the Hoops are challenging the legality of the Football League’s FFP rules for the Championship, that fine – and a huge one at that – has not yet come their way.

With less two weeks to go until the fixtures are released, a decision one way or another is needed.

But if QPR are let off the hook, then Rovers should mount a challenge of their own.

As getting out of the division is going to be hard enough without one of their rivals flouting the rules that were supposed to bring ‘fair play’.