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Nostradamus
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The reason they went for Newcastle was that Amanda dude convincing them to make it a priority. It's not the first time she tried to make this move, probably was the 3rd or 4th actually.The strange/scary thing is that PIF did not buy us......
Now i m not sure what happened there but they were interested and we know they have enough cash....
So either they were turned off by the chinese asking price or the chinese stalled to long cause they wanted to see what happens with the super league.
But when cash is not really an issue and you go for newcastle instead of Inter something is off. Either they deemed Serie A/italy not attractive enough or the chinese were asking for crazy money
The PIF guys didn't really care about entering football that much to do all the proper due diligence so they let her do the work in England and this is the outcome. If she was in charge of the meetings with Suning, she probably bottled it without even realizing as Chinese from Arabs are completely different when it comes to business.
PIF definitely understood the appeal of Inter and I'm sure they'll come knocking again. Once the Chinese are ready to speak.