[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

The Mirror's running with this story. Guess we just have to sit patiently and wait for some kind of confirmation...

[Salopbaggie]

Which story?

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

See Tom's post, right above my last one.

[BaggieMan]

If it is this Johnny Foreigner, Wang Jianlin, we could be in a bit of trouble in balancing the books financially.  He's only worth a net $37.5 billion (£25 billion)



Also, if it is his Dalian Wanda Group, their corporate colours happen to be blue and white :-)

[Worldclassalbion]

On Wiki it states Wang Jianlin is China's richest man, the Dalian Wanda groups HQ is in Beijing and are the countries biggest commercial property company and the world's largest cinema chain operator. Wanda also operates luxury hotels.....

There is also paper talk that they tried to Buy The Vile first but were snubbed by Randy Lerner.......why would he snub such a huge buyer? He is desperate to get rid isn't he?

If this is true I am a little bit more excited than 2 days ago but still very worried.

[Stairs]

I for one am excited by this. It seems that this guys is seriously rich and so could invest in players rather than just buy the club and just steer a steady course. End of the day it gives us a chance for excitement and change.

Biggest problem for me is the fact that the existing squad are being turned into supermen at the moment in Austria. We need to buy players quickly and get them on a parallel fitness programme otherwise they could be kept out of the first team for months whilst catching up.

[Bournemouth Baggie]

Not a popular name down here after what Wanda did to Sunseeker after buying them. 150 redundancies and slowed payment to local suppliers.

[WillieJohnstonsGreenhouse]

If my memory is correct

After sixteen years in the People's Liberation Army, Wang started working as the Office Administrator for the Xigang District in the city of Dalian.[5] In 1989, he became the General Manager of Xigang Residential Development. He was Head of Factory in a Jiangyin-based factory. In 1992, he started working as the General Manager for the Dalian Wanda Group, where he has been CEO since 1993. He has also been serving as Executive Deputy General Manager and Director in Jiangsu Jiangnan Water Co.[6]

His company owns 9.03 million square metres of investment property, 58 Wanda Shopping Plazas, 15 luxury hotels, 68 cinemas, 57 department stores, and 54 karaoke centres around China. The company became the world's largest theatre owner in 2012 when it acquired AMC Theaters. He bought out U.S.-based AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion. He listed it on the New York Stock Exchange in December. He flew in celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, and John Travolta to help launch an $8 billion mini-Hollywood in the coastal city of Qingdao in September 2013.

He acquired the landmark Edificio España building in Madrid, Spain, in March 2014 from Grupo Santander for "about a third less than the €389 million that Banco Santander paid in 2005, at the height of Spain’s construction boom".[7] Previously, Dalian Wanda had taken on billion-dollar hotel development projects in London and New York, as well as property projects in India.

In September 2013 he announced plans to build the world's largest studio pavilion at Oriental Movie Metropolis which include a 10,000 square meter studio and an underwater stage.[8]

In 2014, he acquired land at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California to build the American headquarters of his entertainment company.[9]

Early in 2015 he successfully managed, after years on the waiting list, to secure a two bedroom flat in Smethwick.

The Economist called him "a man of Napoleonic ambition", and citing his military background in the PLA, where he rose from border guard to regimental commander. He enforces "iron discipline" in the workplace, where employees are fined when they violate the company's conservative dress code. Despite his age, he has a "trim figure".[10]

According to the Hurun Report, in 2014 he was the 26th richest person in the world with $25 billion'




Only 26th richest in the world FFS.......Always the bridesmaid - it's the Albion way

(be hilarious if it's not him and boo if it is for his treatment of Bournemouth boat builders)

[Baggievicar]

Brilliant bit slipped in there. Willie - made me laugh out loud.
If he doesn't let people violate a 'conservative dress code' that could explain the return to proper blue and white stripes this year. It's all starting to fit together (and we don't need any bishop and actress references, thank you, Baggieman).

[RainbowTurnedEastStand]

If scrooge ends up staying then I can see Pulis walking as cant see Peace paying the over inflated prices for these british based
players.