When in June 2016 it became known that the Chinese company Daxian 2009 acquired the Granada from the Italian Gino Pozzo for 37 million euros, John Jiang appeared as the owner assumingdo the club presidency. No one doubted that he was the owner until on September 15, 2020, at an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, Jiang was dismissed, relegated to the honorary position of honorary chairman and replaced by Rentao Yi, who chairs the investment group Wuhan DDMC Football. Club Management that controls the buying company. A complex structure. You can say that the owner of the club is DDMC.
Jiang turned out to be quite a character. He was by no means the owner of the Granada even though he tried hard to appear so. In fact he tried to regain the position with a slightly clear movement. This summer, the medium Voz Pópuli revealed that he was missing because the Treasury demands 2.45 million euros from him. Patricia Rodríguez, general director, clarified the situation in AS: “Jiang has nothing to do with Granada.” What is said a seller of smoke.
Precisely Ideal from Granada said this Sunday that the insurmountable Jiang is in China as head of marketing for the SmallRig company, dedicated to recording products. No apparent connection to Desports, the company he founded.
Of Rentao Yi not much is knownor because he has not yet set foot in the capital of the Alhambra, although he is expected in the short term. There have been times of a pandemic that did not allow travel from the Asian giant to Spain. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and holds a doctorate in civil and commercial law from Wuham University, his hometown. A business man. He enters the meetings of the Board of Directors by videoconference and delegates to his strong people such as the aforementioned Patricia Rodríguez and the counselor Sophia Yan. The property does not contemplate the sale of the club and if a sustained growth of the club to return to Europe sooner rather than later.
In February Patricia Rodríguez joined Granada as a counselor after leaving Elche where she was general directorl. This position was held in the Granada entity Antonio Fernández Monterrubio who, two months later, was dismissed together with the director of External Relations and Development, Paula De la Peña. Rodríguez’s attempts to renew coach Diego Martínez were unsuccessful and the club opted for Robert Moreno. The sports director, Fran Sánchez, signed for Valladolid so Granada added Pep Boada in his place. Recently, Patricia Rodríguez stopped being a director to assume the general direction.
Now, Granada tries to overcome the ‘elongated shadow of Diegor while in the offices it works with the leadership of Patricia and the slogans of the property