"I don't know how this will affect me as an Arsenal fan, but as a Malaysian it makes me very proud to see a fellow Malaysian owning a Premier League club," said Hasminderaputra Abu Bakar, a spokesperson for the official Arsenal Malaysia supporters' club.
Fernandes, the owner of budget airline Air Asia and the Team Lotus Formula One outfit, announced on Thursday that he had bought 66 percent of London-based QPR. He is the second Malaysian to buy into a football club in Britain.
"They almost made it to the Premier League this year, so maybe next year they will be in the Premier League with us, and then we will have two Malaysians," said Hasminderaputra. "I am proud of that."
On Fernandes, a self-proclaimed West Ham fan, he said,: "I am very pleased to see that he plans to take a different approach to the other rich owners and that they would like to run QPR like a proper business.
"So hopefully this means they will not be spoiling the transfer market with obscene amounts of money."
"Basically, if you want to buy into a premiership club, you have to spend big," Mohan said. "Tony is talking about spending tens of millions but I don't know if that's enough to generate success."
"If you look at Vincent Tan and Cardiff, they've hardly caused a ripple here since the purchase. It may be because they are in the first division, so it might be different if they were in the premiership and had more TV time."
On Twitter, some Malaysian fans suggested there might be a conflict of interest as Fernandes's investment vehicle Tune Group sponsors Premier League referee gear.
Others called on Fernandes to take Malaysian's Safee Sali, who plays for Indonesia's Pelita Jaya FC, to QPR.
