Maybe. We'll see. I think we'll see a good few of those "regional hamster-powered edible smart watch partner" type deals we have been seeing recently, but even if we get half a dozen of them I doubt they'd add up to more than £10m. As I said before, I'd love to be proven wrong, but I just don't believe that China's economy is turning into the powerhouse it's threatening to be simply by all of their businessman chummying up to anyone who shakes hands with their President. I suspect that their businesses will want to see genuine fan capitalisation before any of them is willing to put a heavy sum into a club sponsorship.
I took a look on a Beijing Guoan fan forum out of curiosity, to see what kind of comments they might have made about previous rumours. It wasn't easy interpreting all of the comments through the Google Translate filter, but I was able to pick up some things. Unsurprisingly they latched onto the idea that we might take control of them rather quickly. As I say, it's hard to be sure, but their fans seem somewhat unhappy about the idea, although their biggest fear seems to be that we will remove the word "Guoan" from their name, which they see as essential to keeping their team's identity. Funnily enough not a single comment was made about the colours changing (since they play in green) but since every single one of their ultras groups seem to have the word "green" in their names, I'm not sure how they'd take it.
