Asian turn in Milan. First comes Inter which ends up (for 70%) in the hands of the Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir, then the Chinese-Thai sirens for Milan (but nothing has been done about Mr Bee at the moment), now the Nerazzurri's future could also be tinged with China. At the moment there are already ChemChina, the Chinese group that controls the main sponsor Pirelli, the cars supplied by Volvo (since 2010 in Chinese hands) and Wanda, the company that manages Infront, advisor to Inter.
But now something else is popping up: the extremely disappointing Nerazzurri football season (in these hours the club's name has also popped up in the Panama Papers journalistic investigation on tax havens) would have brought the Thohir-Moratti partnership to loggerheads, who together respectively hold 70 and 29,5% of the company shares. Last Friday's dinner between the two shareholders was wanted by the Asian tycoon to update the shareholder's interest Suning Commerce Group, the Chinese company that recently took over Jiangsu, Shanghai team. According to rumors, SCG intends to take over 20% of the Nerazzurri package – more precisely 14% from Thohir and 6% from Moratti – for a figure that fluctuates between 60 and 90 million euros.
La “Chineseization” it would be wanted above all by the Asian tycoon, who dreams not only of a minority shareholder from whom to receive fresh money, but also underneath a transfer of the controlling package. A prestigious club like Inter, which however is experiencing a not very prosperous sporting (and also financial) moment, would hardly attract the interest of minority shareholders, who would spend money to count for little or nothing in a management that must in any case be revolutionized in summer, starting from the accounts up to the market and the possible change of coach. Moratti also took note of Thohir's novelty: the former patron would have two aces up his sleeve. The first is Wang Jing, 44-year-old Chinese billionaire that wants to build an alternative to the Panama Canal in Nicaragua. But in this already complicated picture we should not forget the role of Marco Tronchetti Provera who is allegedly putting pressure on Chem China to join Inter.
