Hundreds of Birmingham City fans have had their say on the running of Birmingham City Football Club after Carson Yeung was this week arrested.
Former hairdresser Yeung appeared before Hong Kong magistrates to face five counts of “dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offence”.
He was released on £558,000 bail, with the allegations said to involve a haul of £59 million.
The charges relate to offences alleged to have taken place between 2001 and 2007, according to prosecutors.
Now Birmingham City fans have had their say. Many say it is time for the major shareholder to go but others say that the court case has nothing to do with the club.
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YOUR COMMENTS
To be honest I would rather have Sullivan and Gold back. Yeung's supposed to be a billonaire who his own country have never really heard of, we have to sell our best players to finance his company, BIHL, yet Birmingham City gets left behind. We need someone who has football at heart, someone who wants success someone who knows how to run a football club. Yeung needs to sell up in my heart.
Sean, Birmingham
Sorry to say but there was trouble before Carson even came to the club. Now we have him trying to sell the team off to cover his own debts, and now arrested charged with 5 counts of money laundering.
Seriously, somebody please come buy out these people so we can move forward as a football club and return to where we are supposed to be.
Steve Williams, Bartley Green
It seems to me the house of Carson Yeung is built on shifting sands. It brings to mind the fortunes of Robert Maxwell in constantly moving funds to finance other operations until it was impossible to trace who owned what. Hopefully a big spender will come along and inject money and stability into the club. How about a nice oil-rich sheikh sugar daddy?
Tony Jones / Bluenose
I'm quite worried about the club. I've followed for 42 years, there have been bad times before and I can see bad times ahead.
It seems the club is being asset stripped with the sale of players and replaced with cheap replacements.
It doesn't help not having a football man in charge with ambition to try and push the club forward and not simply grabbing the money and running.
KRO Bluenose Geoff
This cannot go on. Surely there are some wealthy sports franchise owners or the like out there who would like to own a very proud, passionate and established football club that has, as they say, just hit a "little local difficulty"!
What a month! The only good news being CH's appointment- but how can the owners seriously put such pressure upon him (must win promotion at first attempt!) when they are selling all our best assets and replacing them with players who ,with all due respect, are not going to set the highly competitive division of the Championship alight.
It will, frankly, be a major success if by this time next year we are still established in the Championship and to suggest anything other than that demonstrates the owners complete naivety about English football, naivety and actions which are turning us into a laughing stock- enough is enough.
Calling all wealthy buisnessmen- "This Club needs you"!Please!
Tony Randall Cornwall.
Sullivan and Brady were wrongly arrested and charged, the bloke has been convicted of nothing.
Give him a break.
It was not that long ago, that the anti Sullivan brigade hailed Yeung as a god. As long as we have the funds to keep players and rebuild, it matters not ! Just another day in the life of a Birmingham City fan.
Ian
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