Suning Forced To Contemplate Inter Sale After Chinese Government Restrictions, Italian Media Explain | OneFootball

Inter’s owners Suning are being forced to consider selling the club because of the Chinese government’s tough new restrictions on overseas investment, according to an Italian media report today.

As per Gazzetta dello Sport’s print edition, ambitious Suning chairman Zhang Jindong was disappointed during his first few years in charge of the Nerazzurri that he was not able to carry out the Chinese conglomerate’s plans for the club, due to the Financial Fair Play restrictions which limited their movement.

Inter president Steven Zhang, Jindong’s son, is dealing with the current situation and has told club management that he is working to ‘find a solution’, but nobody asked whether this would involve selling a minority stake off to investors or indeed control of the whole club.

Gazzetta say this is because there is a real risk that any new owners would want to change the management structure, potentially calling into question the futures of Beppe Marotta and Piero Ausilio.

Their report goes on to explain that regardless of what the future holds, Suning cannot be criticised seeing as they have invested €550 million into Inter and increased their revenue by €417 million, which is more than double what they were prior to them acquiring the club.

Moreover, Suning also opened the new Inter headquarters, invested considerably in training ground improvements and have also invested into the academy as well.