Carson Yeung

I live in HK but I've never heard of this. Probably just a rumor.

Excape Goat should know more about this guy.

 

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_2416964,00.html

 

Carson Yeung Ka-shing(杨嘉诚)
forma Hong Kong Rangers chairman. He is a friend of Steve Macca.

http://trans.wenweipo.com/gb/paper.wenweipo.com/2007/06/18/SP0706180016.htm

Carson Yeung is ther person sitting at the right of Macca

 

Looks like it's not just a rumor:

http://sports.sina.com.cn/g/2007-06-19/21062991864.shtml

Looks like the deal is just waiting to be finalized.

Article says Yeung owns several publicly-traded companies and money injection is not going to be problem.

I want him to buy some Chinese players if this deal comes through.

 

The owner of birmingham want 50M£ for the club (99M$) , that is so little !!!!! how come u can by a team for that cheap and need to pay something like 40M€ for a player !! chelsea with the price of just 2 or 3 players u can 2 EPL clubs?

 

Because everyone knows Chelsea has tons of money and every agent in the world wants to rip Chelsea off so they jack up the asking price.

 

Could you imagine Fan Zhiyi on the board...

 

Hong Kong business man Carson Yeung is back in for English Premiership club Birmingham City.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8212218.stm

 

Looks like it might happen.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/...rket-news-detail.html?announcementId=10160848

 

Hong Kong-based businessman Carson Yeung has made a £1-a-share cash offer for Birmingham City FC, which values the club at £81.51m ($134.6m).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8213407.stm

 

Apparently he has to seek his companies' shareholders' approval. There will be new stock options on offer to shareholders to finance the purchase. He claims the purchase of the club will help to diversify his business, which includes apparels among many things.

That means he is buying the club using other people's money. He said he will make GBP 5 million available to purchase new players out of his own pocket. He is not looking at bringing Chinese players into the team right now, because first of all the club must be successful.

He had wanted to buy the club before, but it was relegated last season. Now that it is back in the EPL again he is making the offer.

 

Don't buy his company's stock. He's not putting his shareholders' interest in the first place. How on earth can one MAKE money by investing in a football club is beyond me. It's a money-burning business and good luck if he can break even without carrying huge debt, let alone make any money.

 

Thats a subtle (or not) punch in the gut which once again painfully highlights the problems our domestic players/teams/league are having and how this negative perception is quickly reducing the amount of chances Chinese players are going to get overseas and improve.

In terms of buying a relegation-fodder club like that, I guess that is what happens when you have too much money to spend and you run out of ideas of what to spend it on.

 

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USSP18139720090915

Here we go again.

 

I think it's as good as a done deal.

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2009/September/16/yeungs-birmingham-takeover-a-boon-for-china/

However, I really hope he doesn't ruin B'City by bringing Chinese player there. There's a reason that there isn't any Chinese players in the EPL, because right now, they all suck. Please focus on how to keep B'City in the EPL. There's no way Carson has the kind of cash Chelsea and MCFC does to turn the club into an instant success (MCFC is still in the process, nothing to show yet).

I am not sure how this is going to help Chinese Soccer and I am not sure what he meant by bringing an EPL club into China.

Quote from him:

"Over the past 10 years China has had its sports boosted, but there has been no development for football," Yeung told British reporters when lodging the takeover bid.

"So I would like to make my humble contribution. In the future, when the team is stabilised, we will recruit Chinese players who have potential.

"My biggest wish is to bring the English Premier League club to China, promote English professionalism and football concepts to the Chinese, and to let the Chinese know how a English football team is managed."

Chinese football has long needed a saviour.

No doubt, we need a saviour, but I am uncertain as to how this is going to help.

 

Bringing useless Chinese players to Birmingham is not going to help anyone. But if promising young players like 8-10 years olds are taken to Birmingham to be trained properly, then even if they don't make it at Birmingham first team, they can still be good for the CSL or the Chinese NT.

Then again you don't need to buy a EPL club to do that.