None of what you said in the first paragraph is backed up at all by your news articles though.
No news articles won't be written for this.
The news articles merely confirm that there is a large degree of hesitation to trade in China.
Imagine how it is dealing with China without their big market involved in the process. It's a big red flag; with no stars...
Also, re sponsorship, paramount and eBay are two pretty significant American brands. That's a decent win already, you make it sound like we are being sponsored by Thai drinks company or something
No, I did say that those two are great companies to start with but they both have incentive to be more relevant in the Chinese market, even at this stage.
But Inter is associated with the Chinese State as long as we're owned by it, so we won't turn the heads of anyone who doesn't want to dance in that tune.
Paramount wants to build theme parks in China and do tv deals with channels there.
EBay doesn't want to be cut out of a 1.2 billion people market just because of politics.
On the other hand, we're not attracting prime sponsors and even so, half of them are dodgy FX trading companies or betting companies and those aren't allowed or are restricted to something like 75k amounts in Italy and can only be "partners". Crypto shit will eventually be part of this umbrella, too. Not sure why they're not already.
If you look at the biggest sponsor names in football, it's airlines from Arab countries, occasionally backing their own investments, german T-Mobile in Bayern which is like our Pirelli, Juventus with Jeep under the same UBO...
Unless you're Man Utd, Barcelona or a popular PL side, you don't get big sponsor deals from "normal" companies. Because no one really invests in football as much as you want to think otherwise. They're washing money in football. Not necessarily laundering in most cases, but they're washing alright.
And those who're doing that aren't aligned with Chinese interests, so we're out of the game. And since China stopped doing that themselves (2017ish), we've gotten the short end of the stick.
Lyon gets 22m a year from Emirates for example.. What are we getting?
Btw am not ignoring your previous reply, will get to it, just on phone ATM and want to do it justice.
Sure, I know you're intrigued to check