The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[SamTheMouse]

Bit weird that Wyness according to some reports was actually involved in another bid but will still become CEO. Thst Samuelson is quite clearly one dodgy fucker. Any group even half the stated size of this one wood have a larger online presence and the guy himself seems to not actually have that much cash.  Call me a party pooper but in the revisionist romantic way people wanted Doug back last season, i give it 2 years until we are revising some of our opinions of the frankly unhinged Lerner. Stormy seas ahead i reckon. I hope to be very wong.

If that was a typo, it's one the best I've ever seen.

[paul_e]

This bit from the OS doesn't seem right some how.

Dr. Tony Jiantong Xia is the Chairman/CEO and owner of Recon Group. After graduation in China, he was amongst the initial 25 highly rated graduates out of 1,000 sent to study overseas. He spent six years at Harvard and MIT including five months exchange with Oxford University before returning to China to develop Recon Group.

Let's say that he was sent to Harvard and MIT at age 18, he would have returned to China when he was 24, so given that he's now 30 that means he has built a group of companies employing 35,000 people world wide in just six years.
Now call me a Doubting Thomas but I just can't believe that.
Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but I'm beginning to think that the Doctor isn't the only one behind all this.

I don't think it's correct that he's now 30, I can't see where that came from but he seems to be 40.

Sorry for the links not being English but this one - http://portuguese.cri.cn/199/2008/11/14/1s98799.htm - says he was 25 in 2001 when he started the company.
Then a bit of a search on his background returns books he wrote before he went to Harvard - http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AXIA%20JIAN%20TONG - Top 2 are published in 91, probably a bit complex for a 5 year old.

[PeterWithe]

Bit weird that Wyness according to some reports was actually involved in another bid but will still become CEO. Thst Samuelson is quite clearly one dodgy fucker. Any group even half the stated size of this one wood have a larger online presence and the guy himself seems to not actually have that much cash.  Call me a party pooper but in the revisionist romantic way people wanted Doug back last season, i give it 2 years until we are revising some of our opinions of the frankly unhinged Lerner. Stormy seas ahead i reckon. I hope to be very wong.

If that was a typo, it's one the best I've ever seen.

*snigger*

[Steve kirk]

Bit weird that Wyness according to some reports was actually involved in another bid but will still become CEO. Thst Samuelson is quite clearly one dodgy fucker. Any group even half the stated size of this one wood have a larger online presence and the guy himself seems to not actually have that much cash.  Call me a party pooper but in the revisionist romantic way people wanted Doug back last season, i give it 2 years until we are revising some of our opinions of the frankly unhinged Lerner. Stormy seas ahead i reckon. I hope to be very wong.

If that was a typo, it's one the best I've ever seen.

*snigger*

Brilliant, made me chuckle.

[brian green]

He certainly looks older than 30.

[The Laughing Policeman]

It was mentioned on here a lot of pages ago that he's 30 years old and that's what I was going by. That's what confused me about that piece on the OS.

[LeeS]

This bit from the OS doesn't seem right some how.

Dr. Tony Jiantong Xia is the Chairman/CEO and owner of Recon Group. After graduation in China, he was amongst the initial 25 highly rated graduates out of 1,000 sent to study overseas. He spent six years at Harvard and MIT including five months exchange with Oxford University before returning to China to develop Recon Group.

Let's say that he was sent to Harvard and MIT at age 18, he would have returned to China when he was 24, so given that he's now 30 that means he has built a group of companies employing 35,000 people world wide in just six years.
Now call me a Doubting Thomas but I just can't believe that.
Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but I'm beginning to think that the Doctor isn't the only one behind all this.

I don't think it's correct that he's now 30, I can't see where that came from but he seems to be 40.

Sorry for the links not being English but this one - http://portuguese.cri.cn/199/2008/11/14/1s98799.htm - says he was 25 in 2001 when he started the company.
Then a bit of a search on his background returns books he wrote before he went to Harvard - http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AXIA%20JIAN%20TONG - Top 2 are published in 91, probably a bit complex for a 5 year old.

So he is an author now too? The mystery deepens.

[Chico Hamilton III]

This bit from the OS doesn't seem right some how.

Dr. Tony Jiantong Xia is the Chairman/CEO and owner of Recon Group. After graduation in China, he was amongst the initial 25 highly rated graduates out of 1,000 sent to study overseas. He spent six years at Harvard and MIT including five months exchange with Oxford University before returning to China to develop Recon Group.

Let's say that he was sent to Harvard and MIT at age 18, he would have returned to China when he was 24, so given that he's now 30 that means he has built a group of companies employing 35,000 people world wide in just six years.
Now call me a Doubting Thomas but I just can't believe that.
Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but I'm beginning to think that the Doctor isn't the only one behind all this.

I don't think it's correct that he's now 30, I can't see where that came from but he seems to be 40.

Sorry for the links not being English but this one - http://portuguese.cri.cn/199/2008/11/14/1s98799.htm - says he was 25 in 2001 when he started the company.
Then a bit of a search on his background returns books he wrote before he went to Harvard - http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AXIA%20JIAN%20TONG - Top 2 are published in 91, probably a bit complex for a 5 year old.

So he is an author now too? The mystery deepens.

Wonder if he cuts hair as well?

[paul_e]

This bit from the OS doesn't seem right some how.

Dr. Tony Jiantong Xia is the Chairman/CEO and owner of Recon Group. After graduation in China, he was amongst the initial 25 highly rated graduates out of 1,000 sent to study overseas. He spent six years at Harvard and MIT including five months exchange with Oxford University before returning to China to develop Recon Group.

Let's say that he was sent to Harvard and MIT at age 18, he would have returned to China when he was 24, so given that he's now 30 that means he has built a group of companies employing 35,000 people world wide in just six years.
Now call me a Doubting Thomas but I just can't believe that.
Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but I'm beginning to think that the Doctor isn't the only one behind all this.

I don't think it's correct that he's now 30, I can't see where that came from but he seems to be 40.

Sorry for the links not being English but this one - http://portuguese.cri.cn/199/2008/11/14/1s98799.htm - says he was 25 in 2001 when he started the company.
Then a bit of a search on his background returns books he wrote before he went to Harvard - http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AXIA%20JIAN%20TONG - Top 2 are published in 91, probably a bit complex for a 5 year old.

So he is an author now too? The mystery deepens.

No he was a professor at Harvard who has 3-4 books to his name which really isn't unusual.

[brian green]

I imagine the publications were part of his higher education.

[aev]

He is like Doogie Howser MD and that kid that was an expert in antiquities that always on Oprah or Jerry Springer.

[itbrvilla]

So what is his forename?

[Jimbo]

I appreciate all this digging, but I won't be satisfied until I've read more in-depth evaluation from our friends and partners in Small Heath. For objective, fair and balanced analysis, we can only rely on them.

[DeKuip]

I think when we storm the league next year and are the most famous team in China we will look back on this thread and chuckle.

I think we'd have to win the Champions League five times in succession with a team full of Chinamen to become the most famous team in China.

[Brend'Watkins]

In true H&V tradition it's a really great start .....doubts about his age.