If China invades Taiwan

[WBA1955]

as I predicted at the start of the year, sanctions would inevitably follow. All Chinese assets would be frozen.
How would that impact on us as a club? I'm no financial or business expert so perhaps someone can give me the likely outcome?


Whether sanctions are employed or not Chinese ownership of football clubs is coming to an end. Of twenty Chinese owned European clubs a few years ago only ten now remain, and the owners are being told by the Communist party to come out.

What would happen if we become ownerless?

[baggieal]

as I predicted at the start of the year, sanctions would inevitably follow. All Chinese assets would be frozen.
How would that impact on us as a club? I'm no financial or business expert so perhaps someone can give me the likely outcome?


Whether sanctions are employed or not Chinese ownership of football clubs is coming to an end. Of twenty Chinese owned European clubs a few years ago only ten now remain, and the owners are being told by the Communist party to come out.

What would happen if we become ownerless?

I think China will invade Taiwan as they are doing what Russia did!! Sanctions will then follow and hopefully nobody will order from a filthy Chinese takeaway!

Horrible f uckers and still operating sweat shops and slave labour and have appalling human rights records.

I know large supermarkets already have plan B in place if there are sanctions!

As for Lai - freeze his assets and have a fan share!

[Dubbag]

as I predicted at the start of the year, sanctions would inevitably follow. All Chinese assets would be frozen.
How would that impact on us as a club? I'm no financial or business expert so perhaps someone can give me the likely outcome?


Whether sanctions are employed or not Chinese ownership of football clubs is coming to an end. Of twenty Chinese owned European clubs a few years ago only ten now remain, and the owners are being told by the Communist party to come out.

What would happen if we become ownerless?

Well,as Lai is the owner and he is Chinese, his assets (overseas) would be frozen similar to Chelsea.
But sanctions against China would not be as simple as Russia.
Russia is a gas station, nothing more, a gas station with nukes...
China has an economy that is woven into the fabric of capitalism because it provides cheap goods which serves the big manufacturing companies globally.
China is the biggest holder of USA bonds and without them buying the bonds, many bond auctions would never be fully subscribed. Thus meaning world governments would have big falls in their incomes against their outgoings....
China is embedded in the capital markets in a way unlike Russia.
You can't even compare the two side by side.
WBA assets would all be frozen.

[Dubbag]

The other thing to consider is that China needs the west for its own development.
Sanctions would be perhaps, a bigger deal for CP of China then the west....

[BaggieBlood]

as I predicted at the start of the year, sanctions would inevitably follow. All Chinese assets would be frozen.
How would that impact on us as a club? I'm no financial or business expert so perhaps someone can give me the likely outcome?


Whether sanctions are employed or not Chinese ownership of football clubs is coming to an end. Of twenty Chinese owned European clubs a few years ago only ten now remain, and the owners are being told by the Communist party to come out.

What would happen if we become ownerless?

They could do an Abromovich to Lai and make him sell to the highest bidder, probably Mickd's mooted consortium.

Whatever happens we cannot have any less to spend than we currently have.

[baggieal]

They could do an Abromovich to Lai and make him sell to the highest bidder, probably Mickd's mooted consortium.

Whatever happens we cannot have any less to spend than we currently have.

Very true Blood! After paying for that Blackburn ticket I will only have enough for six pints and a hot dog 🌭 before the match! Can’t even afford a cabbage after this to aim for Bruces’s head!

[BaggieBlood]

Very true Blood! After paying for that Blackburn ticket I will only have enough for six pints and a hot dog 🌭 before the match! Can’t even afford a cabbage after this to aim for Bruces’s head!

Better to have a fan led consortium than Bassini, who knowing our luck, we will end up with.

As the Birmingham Sh itty debacle shows there isn't much interest in our sized clubs and I don't think we'll get a single rich businessman like Direby did.

[WBA1955]

I agree with Al and Blood, I would like to see our board made up of shareholders and above all Albion fan's
We might not have as much money to throw around (was there ever a time we had?), but at least Albion fans would do things for the benefit of the club instead of profit.
Peace was no Albion fan, he valued the club at £7m, bought out all the shareholders who were Albion fans, then sold the club for £200m, to a nonentity.

"I will only sell the club to the right party who can take it forward." Yeah, right.

[mickd1961]

If China wants to invade Taiwan it will.......end of!?

The Chinese are more canny than the Russians though and aren’t known for cutting off their nose to spite their face.

The USA and the rest of the World are so reliant on goods made in China ( and the Chinese know this ) that I foresee knotting more the a d I c k swinging contest and a “my dad is bigger than yours” contest.

Each side needs the other is the reality.

Russia is the bigger short term problem due to our reliance on their gas and Ukrainian grain.

Massive ineptitude on our part considering the vast part of the U.K. is still greenery in which we could grow grain and crops and that we are a small island with plentiful wind, a sea that could power huge turbines, shale gas we fight ourselves over accessing and decent levels of available solar power.

I can’t believe the the Labour and Conservative governments of the past 40 years have left us so bereft when we could be self sufficient in power and in many food sources.

[kettering_baggie]

Very true, many acres of good farming land in Northamptonshire being covered with warehouses (probably to be filled with cheap Chinese tat), it should be used for growing food.