I wonder if this will have any effect on the purse strings at Reading

[ditchy]

Reading FC: Thai owners to sell majority shares to Chinese brother and sister

The Thai consortium which owns Reading is on the brink of selling its shares to a Chinese brother and sister, BBC Radio Berkshire reports.

Negotiations have begun with Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li and a deal could be completed "within a fortnight".

Yongge and Xiu Li failed in an attempt to buy Hull City in September.

Current owners Lady Sasima Srivikorn, Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth and Narin Niruttinanon took control of the Championship club in September 2014.

Any deal with Yongge and Xiu Li would see the Thais retain ownership of land around the club's Madejski Stadium, currently earmarked for redevelopment, as well as the Millennium Madejski Hotel.

But the current owners are looking to sell the stadium, the club and the training ground.

 

[Pavilionaire]

With the Albion sitting pretty in the automatic promotion places of the Championship you wonder whether Tony will receive - or, indeed, HAS received - any offers for his shares.

 

[Taybha]

Good luck to them , I fully expect to see Mr Yongge and Mr Xui Li chatting to fans on some oopt north train station platform at a away game on a tuesday night in the middle of january after the game and sharing their plastic bag full of tinny's , we really are so bloody lucky to have what we have here .

 

[whitelion]

Good luck to them , I fully expect to see Mr Yongge and Mr Xui Li chatting to fans on some oopt north train station platform at a away game on a tuesday night in the middle of january after the game and sharing their plastic bag full of tinny's , we really are so bloody lucky to have what we have here .

They are brother and sister so I doubt you'd "fully expect to see them".

 

[bhafc99]

So long as the Chinese then sell it on to some Indians in due course, it all seems fine. I love a good takeaway.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Meet the Dai. Having a brother or sister in China is actually a very unique trait.

 

[Hiney]

The Company responsible for making the owners' office door plaques must be heaving a sigh of relief at this news.

 

[Taybha]

Brilliant , thank fook i didn't spell their names wrong my notification would be in meltdown

 

[Triggaaar]

With the Albion sitting pretty in the automatic promotion places of the Championship you wonder whether Tony will receive - or, indeed, HAS received - any offers for his shares.

No I don't.

What I do wonder is whether Reading will have to have a new club song, and how losing the current one will affect the team's morale.

 

[Insel affe]

Any deal with Yongge and Xiu Li would see the Thais retain ownership of land around the club's Madejski Stadium, currently earmarked for redevelopment, as well as the Millennium Madejski Hotel.
But the current owners are looking to sell the stadium, the club and the training ground.

Is it me or does that all sound a bit..... worrying.

 

[Exile]

Is it me or does that all sound a bit..... worrying.

The potential new owners' bid to buy Hull in the summer, fell through because they failed the FA's 'Fit and Proper' test.

Even Massimo sodding Cellino passed that!

 

[LlcoolJ]

No I don't.

What I do wonder is whether Reading will have to have a new club song, and how losing the current one will affect the team's morale.

Beat me to it.

Hopefully this will be as successful as Wolves' Chinese ownership so far.

#TINPOT

 

[Insel affe]

The potential new owners' bid to buy Hull in the summer, fell through because they failed the FA's 'Fit and Proper' test.

Even Massimo sodding Cellino passed that!

No the bit , "currently earmarked for redevelopment", as well as the Millennium Madejski Hotel.
But the current owners are looking to sell the stadium, the club and the training ground. ??

 

[Greg Bobkin]

The Company responsible for making the owners' office door plaques must be heaving a sigh of relief at this news.

Unless it gets paid by the letter...

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Ah yes, Dai Yongge... Chinese-Welsh hellraiser, with his gorgeous Scandinavian girlfriend, Liv Fasste.

 

[ditchy]

Is it me or does that all sound a bit..... worrying.

Agreed could see all sorts of development around the Madjeski

 

[Insel affe]

Agreed could see all sorts of development around the Madjeski

Ha Ha, I was wondering if the ground etc could be sold by the new or old owners thats all.

 

[Curious Orange]

No the bit , "currently earmarked for redevelopment", as well as the Millennium Madejski Hotel.
But the current owners are looking to sell the stadium, the club and the training ground. ??

Sounds like a classic case of asset stripping to me. I wonder how much that hotel contributes to the Reading revenue streams?

 

[Insel affe]

Sounds like a classic case of asset stripping to me. I wonder how much that hotel contributes to the Reading revenue streams?

my point exactly

 

[Jbanged]

No I don't.

What I do wonder is whether Reading will have to have a new club song, and how losing the current one will affect the team's morale.

It needed posting on here again! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rp3toJ9cAQ

It's got more views than reading get seats in a year!