Chapter 464 Football City Group
Strictly speaking, Manchester City is not owned by the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi consortium, but is part of the City Football Group (CFG). Of course, the boss behind City Football Group is Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mansour.
City Football Group was established in 2014 under the chairmanship of Manchester City chairman Hosni Mubarak, but operations began before it was established.
In 2013, Manchester City Club and the New York Yankees baseball team jointly invested US$100 million to establish the New York City Football Club. It has participated in the Major League Soccer League since the 2015 season. Manchester City owns 78% of New York City's shares.
New York City's first major league game was a 1:1 away draw with Orlando City. The assist for the goal was Calabash Villa, while for Orlando City it was Kaká.
Former Manchester City American midfielder Claudio Reyna serves as New York City's director of football, and Manchester City legend Vieira serves as New York City's head coach. Blue Bridge legend Lampard also went directly from Manchester City to New York City, and even Pirlo's joining also had Manchester City's operation.
Manchester City is the chief helm, and New York City is the first branch helm.
In 2015, City Football Group acquired 100% of the shares of Melbourne Heart Club of the Australian Premier League and subsequently changed its name to Melbourne City Club. In the following year, Melbourne City's star player was Calabash, who came from Atletico Madrid on a free transfer.
Calabash first went to Melbourne and then to New York City, both under the control of Soriano, the current CEO of Manchester City and the former vice chairman of Barcelona.
Before Zhuoyang joined last year, Manchester City also signed Aaron Mooy, the most talented midfielder in the A-League from Melbourne City, but he was immediately loaned to Harbin Town in the English Championship at the time. Huazhen successfully promoted to the Premier League last season, and this summer they bought out the core of the team Mooy from Manchester City, setting a record for Huazhen with 10 million pounds.
Next, City Football Group acquired the J-League Yokohama Marinos, but it was still called Yokohama Marinos and did not become Yokohama City.
Then at the beginning of this year, City Football Group fully acquired the Uruguayan second division team Atlético Torquay, which is now called Atlético Montevideo Torquay, referred to as "Montreal Torquay". The Uruguayan League does not celebrate the New Year, and Dream City Torquay’s promotion to the First Division this year is basically guaranteed.
Manchester City's layout is naturally for the long-term prosperity of the Manchester City club at the top of the pyramid. Without hindering their respective development, these sub-clubs will become Manchester City's scouting centers in their respective regions and talent transfer bases.
Manchester City will also loan out players it has collected from all over the world but cannot use for the time being, as well as some of its adopted children from youth training families, to these satellite clubs to support their combat capabilities and allow the players to level up.
In fact, this model is not new in football. Every wealthy club has several satellite teams of its own. Even Madiburg has three younger players: Oberhausen, Karlsruhe and Meppen. .
However, most of these are cooperative in nature and are not a lord model with complete final say. Moreover, they are not as broad as Manchester City and are basically limited to their domestic leagues. In addition to these teams with controlling shares, Manchester City also has many cooperative clubs on several continents.
City Football Group has not stopped its pace of expansion, and the reborn Chinese football cannot escape their sight. City Group's next plan is to select a suitable Chinese team for acquisition or investment.
Zhuoyang is very interested in the layout of this stall in Manchester City.
Manchester City is more interested in the Chinese Football Hope Chunlei project led by Zhuo Yang. Looking to the near future, Chunlei will be an inexhaustible treasure trove of talents.
Recently, Zhuoyang and Mubarak are discussing the method of cooperation. Whether they should inject capital into each other for share integration, or no matter what, they are looking forward to the prospect of cooperation.
Zhuoyang will retire sooner or later, and it is inevitable that he will become a dedicated pianist after retirement. He will also definitely become a professional doting wife and a loyal and easy-going husband, but it is impossible for him to have nothing to do with football from now on.
The cooperation with City Group is Zhuo Yang's preparation for football life after retirement.
Manchester City's latest move is that this month, in August 2017, they just invested in the acquisition of 44.3% of the newly promoted La Liga club Girona. The tentacles extended into Spain, and the mountains expanded again.
In fact, in addition to the five major signings of B seat, Ederson, Walker, Danilo and Mendy this summer, Manchester City also signed the Brazilian U-20 international midfielder and Yisi from Vasco da Gama, Brazil. 10.7 million is no small feat.
After the acquisition was completed, Douglas Luis was directly loaned to Girona, along with Colombian winger Marlos Moreno, who was bought last summer and loaned to Deportivo last season.
There are also two young players from the youth academy, Alex Garcia and Pablo Maffeo, who were also loaned to Girona. These two guys are both Spaniards, one is a midfielder and the other is a full-back, and both have already had the experience of representing Manchester City's first team. They have also participated in Manchester City's pre-season training for two consecutive years.
The Girona club was founded in 1991 and has been a semi-professional team since the beginning. In the 1950s, it began to compete in professional leagues.
Since the 2012-13 season, Girona has advanced to the promotion play-offs three times in four years in Segunda División, with a thrilling relegation in between. All three upgrades failed, and each time the failure was more brutal than the last.
An AC Milan-style reverse in the second round, a draw by the opponent in the last minute of stoppage time, and a reverse win by Chongqing Lifan to avoid relegation and help Osasuna get promoted. Interested book friends can check it out. There is no difficulty in life, and Girona can help you inspire.
Last season, Girona no longer had to go through the torturous and inherently conflicting promotion play-offs. They ranked second in the second division and were directly promoted. It seems that God has finally had enough.
After the upgrade, City Football Group acquired 44.3% of Girona's shares, and the remaining 44.3% of the shares belong to Girona Football Group, and this Girona Football Group belongs to Pere Guardiola. Yes, he is the old man. Gua's eldest brother is also one of the four major football agents in Spain.
After defeating Brighton 4:0 in the first round of the Premier League and getting off to a good start, because there was still time before the second round, he went to the small town of Girona in Catalonia, Spain for four days of training, and by the way, he played with his younger brother Girona. A friendly match.
Girona is 80 kilometers northeast of Barcelona, and only 30 kilometers away from the border between Spain and France is Tossa de Mar, where the Blue Diamond Castle is located.
Have you heard of it? Have you ever seen it? If you have the money, would you like to buy a castle like this? Zhuoyang is not a stingy person. He generously invited the entire Manchester City team to visit the castle, and of course there were delicious food and the beautiful view of Tossa Sapphire Beach.
But maybe the hospitality was too attentive, which corrupted the minds and bodies of these fools in Manchester City. As European champions, they actually played a lonely and shameless match against a newly promoted team from La Liga in a friendly match.
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