Members of the new board of Inter Milan club at the press briefing on June 28, 2016, in Milan, Italy. [Photo: Chinanews.com]
The past few weeks has seen a string of Chinese companies purchase stakes in European football clubs, extending a trend which began in 2014.
Fourteen different deals over the past 2-years have seen Chinese companies and business owners spend over a billion US dollars on football clubs abroad.
While these sports teams can sometimes be lucrative, the rush by Chinese investors toward football has raised a number of questions as to the underlying philosophy behind the moves, and what connection it may have to a broader-based Chinese govern
