Recently, China News Network launched a questionnaire survey to all Italian fans, and the final results showed that more than 60% of the participants supported Zhang Kangyang to stay at Inter as the club's president.
Looking back on the past month, the Italian media Roma Sports and Torino Sports have successively hyped up the issue of Zhang Kangyang's postponement of repayment, of course, it must be mainly negative news. They are almost certain that Inter will change hands if Zhang Kangyang is unable to repay the principal and interest of the Oaktree Capital Financing loan totalling 380 million euros.
However, after several weeks of fermentation, the result is basically certain, that is, some people who expect Zhang Kangyang to leave office or even Inter to be sold will be disappointed, and Inter will remain in Zhang Kangyang's hands for at least the next two years.
According to the latest news from Milan Sports Newspaper, Zhang Kangyang's proposed deferred repayment plan is close to being accepted by Oaktree Capital, according to the repayment plan previously disclosed by the media, Zhang Kangyang will pay Oaktree Capital 105 million euros in interest in advance, and the remaining 275 million euros will be refinanced, with the interest rate raised to 16% or more, and the repayment period will be before 2027.
What is certain is that after the deferred repayment plan is approved, Zhang Kangyang can keep Inter for at least 2-3 years, and during this time, Zhang Kangyang can have the opportunity to find like-minded consortiums or investors to run Inter together. More importantly, in the coming period, Zhang Kangyang can lead his team to continue to build Inter according to the strategy that has been formulated before.
Of course, there is no love for no reason, and there is a reason why Italian fans support Zhang Kangyang so much:
First, break Juve's monopoly
In the 6 years that Zhang Kangyang has coached Inter, he has brought Inter 6 championship trophies, namely 1 Serie A title, 2 Italian Cups and 3 Italian Super Cups, of course, if you count this season's Serie A championships, it should be 7.
What is certain is that the vast majority of Italian fans, including some Juventus fans, hope that Serie A will be a competition for the best, rather than Juventus alone, so that the game can be more exciting and the result will be more suspenseful.
Second, set an example for Serie A teams
Under Zhang Kangyang's leadership, Inter's loss at the club fell from €245 million in 2021 to €85 million last year. According to the financial report for the first half of this year released by the board of directors of Inter, Inter has begun to make a profit of 22.3 million euros. The Italian media are generally optimistic about Inter's earnings for the whole year, and they all believe that Inter will be profitable.
It can be said that Zhang Kangyang's successful operation at Inter Milan has given hope to all other Serie A teams in debt crisis. Although due to the bad global environment, the living environment of Serie A is getting worse and worse, as long as you are willing to operate carefully, there is still the possibility of making profits, at least you can reduce losses, what Inter has done, other teams can also.
Third, Zhang Kangyang's image is very positive
Fans of any team hope that their owner is not just a speculator, not only has capital investment, but more importantly, he really loves football and loves this team, and Zhang Kangyang has obviously done a good job in these aspects.
Since taking charge of Inter, Zhang Kangyang has invested more than 900 million euros, and even in the case of the deep Oaktree Capital loan crisis, he has injected 98 million euros into Inter in disguise.
In addition, in terms of team operation, Zhang Kangyang chose to be the shopkeeper, in addition to controlling some major things, the details of the operation are divided into management such as Marotta and Osirio, especially in terms of team tactics, he chooses to fully trust the coach, creating a very harmonious football operation environment.
Finally, it must be mentioned that there are about forty percent of Italian fans who want Inter to change to a new club, and in addition to some envious and jealous fans, there must be a large number of Inter fans. The reason is hardly at the competitive level, but the financial situation, and it is clear that they are still worried about Zhang Kangyang's inability to completely solve the debt problem.