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Another billionaire in English football

Wolves about to be bought by chinese billionaire Robin Li (4th richest man in China)

Jorge Mendes (Ronaldo's agent) is apparently brokering the deal.

Wants to get rid of Kenny Jackett and appoint an ex-Porto boss as manager and they're now apparently linked with a championship record 20m bid for a Benfica player who is managed by Mendes.

Why can't a chinese billionaire buy us?!!

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  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Because a we always get lumbered with Skinflints,Spivs and Bat shit crazy pensioners.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    There is hope for Charlton if Duchatelet can be encouraged & persuaded to sell the club.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    Because Roland has said publicly he won't sell to Asian bidders as they are "foreigners" who don't understand English football.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,220
    Mr Li? We have a female one that can make up a pair at Molineux.
  • Quick, somebody go on a Wolves forum and tell them that Roland has expressly warned against the Chinese :wink:

    Appropos of nothing - I still raise a smile when I read things like China having a 4th richest man.
    Marx, Lenin and Trotsky must be turning in their graves
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,304
    Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975

    Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better

    If he's weighing out 21m for Benfica wonder kids then yes.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843

    Quick, somebody go on a Wolves forum and tell them that Roland has expressly warned against the Chinese :wink:

    Appropos of nothing - I still raise a smile when I read things like China having a 4th richest man.
    Marx, Lenin and Trotsky must be turning in their graves

    Not to mention Mao Zedong!
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    edited July 2016

    Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better

    I am not against Duchatelet & Meire because they are Belgium but because they are fecking inept & useless.

    Leicester City ownership seems to understand Leicester pretty well. The Italians at Watford know how to run a football club. Foreign owners can easily run and support a successful and ambitious club.
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  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103

    Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better

    If he's weighing out 21m for Benfica wonder kids then yes.
    I prefer our wonderkids from Sporting, thanks.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    edited July 2016
    bobmunro said:

    Quick, somebody go on a Wolves forum and tell them that Roland has expressly warned against the Chinese :wink:

    Appropos of nothing - I still raise a smile when I read things like China having a 4th richest man.
    Marx, Lenin and Trotsky must be turning in their graves

    Not to mention Mao Zedong!
    Haha yes, one can only speculate on what Mao would make of modern China.
    But I left him out of that group because, like Stalin, he had already subverted the Communist idyll to the cult of personality and an insular " anti- socialist" one nation corruption of it.

    Edit - sorry I have gone way oiff topic
  • Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better


    As Gary said, if the owner is going out and spending 20m on players then definitely yes.

    Mendes is also Mourinho's agent, so possibly there's a chance for them to get some Man U players in on loan too.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    If I had a net worth of US$9.6 billion, I wouldn't be buying Wolves...
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843

    If I had a net worth of US$9.6 billion, I wouldn't be buying Wolves...

    Unless he's made his fortune manufacturing custard. If so what a great marketing tool!
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Wolves are honourable in China.

    We need to appeal to them - change the badge to a samurai sword? change our name to Charlton Chow Mein? change our nickname from Addicks to "Tasty Dogs"
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    another multi billionaire from what is essentially a slave state economy .. another example of money bypassing the 'fit and pwoper test' ..
    There should be government intervention, foreigners only allowed to buy British clubs and import managers and players provided they also make an equivalent investment in British industry and R & D
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,891
    Isn't Roland a half-billionnaire?

    Or am I getting confused with half-wit?
  • Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better

    If he's weighing out 21m for Benfica wonder kids then yes.
    Mmmm.....if this is true then it will be interesting to see how the financial fair play rule comes into effect as no way will Wolves be able to justify. Personally I think it is a load of crap.
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  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,916
    He is part of a consortium that's about to purchase AC Milan too
  • Hang on... So we don't want Roland / Katrien because they dont understand Charlton etc.

    Do people seriously think a Chinese Billionaire is going to be any better

    If he's weighing out 21m for Benfica wonder kids then yes.
    Mmmm.....if this is true then it will be interesting to see how the financial fair play rule comes into effect as no way will Wolves be able to justify. Personally I think it is a load of crap.

    FFP was made pretty meaningless after QPR got let off with something like an 8m fine, instead of the 50-60m they should've been fined.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    We must be alot more of an appealing club to buy then wolves surely!?

    Roland probably rejected the football enthusiastic Chinese billionaire...... as he was about to hand over the business for 60million, a satisfactory amount way over what he could have ever hoped for, he all of a sudden had this daunting suspicion that they had this mad intention to move Charlton away from the valley.
    Huh (the Roland catchphrase) light bulb
    Roland knows how important it is that Charlton play at the valley....
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866

    Wow, almost everyone here know who he is. He is the founder of the website Baidu which is the equivalent of Google in China. I don't like him though. I can't say the reason. Many people don't like his website.

    Interesting. Obviously for whatever reason - you can't say the reason, but you talking rumoured scandal?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    edited July 2016

    bobmunro said:

    Quick, somebody go on a Wolves forum and tell them that Roland has expressly warned against the Chinese :wink:

    Appropos of nothing - I still raise a smile when I read things like China having a 4th richest man.
    Marx, Lenin and Trotsky must be turning in their graves

    Not to mention Mao Zedong!
    Haha yes, one can only speculate on what Mao would make of modern China.
    But I left him out of that group because, like Stalin, he had already subverted the Communist idyll to the cult of personality and an insular " anti- socialist" one nation corruption of it.

    Edit - sorry I have gone way oiff topic
    More interesting than moaning about Twoshits and Pinocchio.
  • Wolves bought for 45m.

    Aside from now being in a higher division, i don't see any other reason how they're a more attractive purchase than we would be.

    Why couldn't they have bought us last summer?!

    If you were RD you'd be looking at that thinking i surely have to get us back up so i can sell and go.