05-02-2015, 09:52 PM
(05-01-2015, 05:13 PM)ACMILAN1983 Wrote: Nefremo you're talking about Maroni who's the head of the Lombardy region and was in discussion with the club about selling the expo venue for the new stadium. I don't know how much he knows, though he's admitted to being a fan of the club, but he's said the Chinese don't have the money. That's highly doubtful given the names involved, but I can imagine they aren't prepared to spend as much as we might hope, particularly as Fu Yixiang said none were prepared to invest individually in the club. Obviously that's speculation on my part.
This Fu Yixiang guy, IMHO, is trying to milk the Milan story for his own personal good, i.e. his name and business get noticed by Chinese and Italian who want to do business in Italy and China.
Both Wahaha, the beverage maker, and Wanda, the real estate developer, had officially denied the rumour long before Fu put forward his mishmash.
The telecommunications giants Huawei is a low key player and has been Milan's sponsor for years, probably prefers to stay this way.
Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, personal fortune $22 billion, just bought 50% of Guangzhou Heng Da F.C. for CNY 1.2 billion at the beginning 2015. (Its coach used to be Lippi and now Cannavaro.) Right now it seems that he lacks the motives to invest in an foreign football team.
The crowdfunding he referred to, I guess, is an idea Fu "stole" from the report that over 300 Chinese who chipped in some money for a newly promoted La Liga team Eibar. http://fortune.com/2014/06/19/sd-eibar-s...wdfunding/
It is simply unrealistic to raise half billion euro through crowdfunding and to bring 10k Chinese fans to Milan match. Fu was shooting from the hip.
