By Nick Harris 10 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman linked to a potential Liverpool takeover, has yet to decide whether to send the club a proposal, let alone a bid for the club, one of his American business partners has told sportingintelligence. Marc Ganis, of the Chicago-based Sportscorp Ltd, contacted this website last […]
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REVEALED: Liverpool bidder Kenny Huang in embezzlement puzzle as doubts remain over background
By Nick Harris 9 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman who hopes to lead a takeover of Liverpool financed by backers yet to made public, was sued in March last year in America over allegations that he embezzled $2.9m in a business deal. This is one of five legal actions against him in the […]
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Kenny Huang drafts CIC denial statement as confusion surrounds Liverpool’s Chinese bid
By Nick Harris 5 August 2010 Kenny Huang has prepared a draft statement denying that his bid for Liverpool is backed by the China Investment Corporation, sportingintelligence can now confirm. We reported on the likelihood of this earlier today. The statement has not been formally released, and Huang’s PR agents at Hill & Knowlton in […]
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Kenny Huang: ‘No more updates until Liverpool choose to talk’
By Nick Harris 5 August 2010 A spokeswoman for Kenny Huang, whose interest in Liverpool has graduated from the back pages to the front pages of British newspapers this morning amid claims that he is backed by the China Investment Corporation, has told sportingintelligence this morning that confirmation of any further developments must come from […]
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REVEALED: Kenny Huang tells Liverpool his backers are C.I.C, worth $330bn; no proof of funds yet
By Nick Harris 4 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman linked with a takeover bid for Liverpool in recent days, has told the club’s hierarchy that he has the financial backing of the China Investment Corporation, China’s largest sovereign wealth fund with assets of $332bn, sportingintelligence has learned. If this backing is proven to […]
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Kenny Huang denies any ‘formal bid’ for Liverpool; plot thickens amid rival claims
By Nick Harris 4 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman reportedly backed by a Far East sovereign wealth fund in his putative bid for Liverpool, has confirmed he has tabled NO formal offer for the club, yet. The 46-year-old has released a statement to The Sport Briefing – a subsidiary of Britain’s Press Association […]
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Liverpool’s suitor Kenny Huang ‘doesn’t have the money’ to buy the club himself
By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 A reported approach by a Chinese businessman, Jian-hua ‘Kenny’ Huang, to buy Liverpool is shrouded in confusion as sources in China and America have told sportingintelligence that he does not have the money to buy the club, that he declined to sign a confidentiality clause requested of all interested […]
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New partnership to help young writers get under the skin of sport
By Nick Harris 11 May 2015 Sporting Intelligence is pleased to announce a new partnership with sports compression wear company SKINS that will help to maintain this website’s independence – and help to enable the provision of some project funding for young and upcoming sports writers. The new alliance comes on the heels of www.sportingintelligence.com […]
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Tell me why … society demands black and white when real life is 50 shades of grey
* IT would be nice to think that definitive answers exist to every question, that truth is absolute and there is only one way to see things – because then we could always be clear and what is right, wrong, true, false. But life isn’t like that, not any walk of life from medicine to […]
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Sportingintelligence: One year young this week. Honoured to be honoured. Thank you.
* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 March 2011 . Sportingintelligence is celebrating its first birthday. Although you’ll find articles on the site that pre-date March 2010 by a month or three, it was a year ago precisely that the site went fully live for the first time. The ‘holding page’ […]
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