AC Milan who? Alibaba’s Jack Ma laughs off takeover talk April 28, 2016 Alibaba founder Jack Ma has scoffed at reports he is on the verge of buying a controlling stake in Italian football giants AC Milan. Reports had suggested Ma, Asia’s richest man with a net worth of $33.3bn (£22.7bn), was leading a consortium looking to buy a 70 per cent stake in the club currently owned [...]
Chinese Super League spending: Wayne Rooney could follow Ramires with Premier League stars targeted by football’s future superpower February 12, 2016 Jiangsu who? Following Chelsea’s Ramires £21m move to the Chinese city of Nanjing to play for the Super League club Jiangsu Suning, many football fans have been left to ask who and why? The Nanjing club is hardly the best known, nor the most successful, in China. Last season they could only finish ninth in [...]