It has been rumoured for quite some tome but has now been officially confirmed by Erick Thohir himself: Chinese Suning Group are Inter’s new “Strategic Partners” according to a statement made by the Inter President on twitter moments ago.
The full statement was released via Lola Wanata via a series of tweets on Twitter. Lola is personally acquainted with the Inter President as well as working for the official Indonesian Inter Supporter Club and reads as follows: “Inter is in good hands, after Mr Moratti work together with me, we can see positive results. Performance on the sport side: from 8th to 4th, revenue side from 164 [million Euro’s] to 186 and next year will be more than 200. As President I have built a strong management which is not common in Italian football. With the era of super club, now is the time to make Inter stronger, with a strategic partner like Suning who has a strong presence in China, Suning and me will build Inter more global but at the same time believe in Italian football industry which is still growing and able to compete with other European league’s in Europe.”
Here are the tweets:
UPDATE 07:05: Lola Wanata has since then deleted the tweets and tweeted out the following series of tweets instead:
UPDATE 08:35: Corriere dello Sport have published an exclusive interview today with Erick Thohir where he in effect confirms the statements made above: “Inter is in good hands. It has been decided to sell the majority stake to make the club stronger with a strategic partner like Suning Group which is a strong presence in China. With Moratti we have worked well and we have made the club stronger. We have a management of a top European club, something not everyone in Italy has.”
According to the interview in Corriere dello Sport, Massimo Moratti will sell all of his stake at the club and Erick Thohir will stay on as a minority stake holder.
Stay tuned to SempreInter.com for the latest developments on this breaking story throughout the day.
WTF?!!
big-head jungle-man is now the most happy person in the world !!
saved his money, even got some more and he left all problems behind him … mancini the most important one ! …………………
mancio is too much payed stupid whore … let’s see how patient chinese are,. I doubt that they are so stupid like thohir was.
I really hope this is a story akin to PSG/Man City rather than Monaco/Anzhi. Which is why I’ll be super happy if Thohir retains a minority and Moratti retains a board position/whatever (he can sell all his shares though)
we already have too much quality in our team to have the same fate as Monaco/Anzhi, but it’s too early to say if we can reach PSG/Man City levels.. we can only hope
Well Thohir is a smart business man, he pretty much earns what he payed for the 70% and still will have about a 30% stake in the club.
more money, more power.. that’s what the chinese are now a day.. i hope this will help us..
Imagine Suning bringing us Teixeira from Jiangsu.
Damn, that would be good. We haven’t had a true number 10 since Sneijder.
Definitely possible. Not only texeira, possibilities are open for inter to “sign” big players via Jiangsu in form of player loans since they are not bound by ffp
Ow that smart indeed
wow that would be awesome… is Suning related to Jiangsu? Like new york city and man city?
Suning commerce group owns the club.
i search for suning, and i convince that this company are big. and willing to invest for their club..
They are BIG. Big enough to own everything. Even their recent mobile telecom service is almost as big as Sprint. We couldn’t get any better offer (or partnerhip heh….lol) unless Jack Ma himself offer us a deal.
Round about now I’m glad they pulled the plug on buying Guaro from us. 😮 Instead it’s Ramires, Paulinho or Teixera possibly attached on loans 😀
Oh no…..
oh yes