Peter Kenyon has worked as CEO for Manchester United (1997-2003) and Chelsea (2003-2009) but he has a part to play with Inter now.
The Englishman is now working as Suning’s global footballing consultant.
“They are serious, sophisticated, and they understand football,” he said to Football & Finance.
The paper wrote, “Kenyon would be the strategic supervisor of not only the activities between Jiangsu and Inter, but also other clubs the the Chinese would buy in Europe.”
“Zhang Jindong will be in talks to buy two other clubs in Europe, one in Belgium, and one in Portugal. Advanced talks with due diligence are already in place.
Kia Joorabchian is working together with the Chinese on this front as well.
Source: Football & Finance
I don’t know about the whole thing.. Who would Suning prioritise? Surely Inter – but how would their fans react to this? I don’t really like it when owners have multiple teams.. I know Suning already has Jiangsu, but it’s sort of different to me..
Short term it sounds good for Inter, but from a more general perspective I don’t really like how modern football is turning teams into products for big corporations.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we in the near future had a European League with only big teams sponsored by big corporations, and these teams would no longer play in their national leagues. A bit like the American Sport Franchises are run. The current national leagues would continue with the remaining teams, but only be considered local minor leagues to the big one. Good for the TV networks and owners, but maybe not so good for the local clubs fans ..
Everybody would sell except for juventus, but there is no interest in teams like roma and napoli
what hate? so far I dont see hate towards us, but that may be just me.
Woow we can pool all deadwood in portugal to reset their value, loan promising youngster to belgium to get experience n permit, n sent old player to china.
a sustainable corporate yes? hahaha! it is like we’re creating new games at multi league in championship manager @_@
yesyess 😀
Captain Barnes?
you can always measure your success by the amount of hate you received
Where the heck Jindong got that mountains of money???
Selling air conditioners the legend says… lol
“Zhang Jindong will be in talks to buy two other clubs in Europe, one in Belgium, and one in Portugal. Advanced talks with due diligence are already in place.
Could it be Standar Liege and Sporting Lisbon? Imagine we have them as affiliated clubs
probably a small clubs not as big as sporting or standard
still good though, we can acquire wonderkids from their youth academy