Strictly speaking, Manchester City is not owned by the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi United Consortium, but is affiliated to the City Football Group (cfg). Of course, the boss behind the City Football Group is Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Mansour.
City Football Group was founded in 2014 and the group chairman is Manchester City Chairman Mubarak, but it started operating before it was founded.
In 2013, Manchester City Club and the Yankee Baseball Team in New York jointly invested 100 million US dollars to establish New York City Football Club, and began participating in the Major League Soccer League in the 2015 season. Manchester City owns 78% of New York City's shares.
In the first major league game, New York City drew 1-1 away with Orlando City. It was Calabash Villa who assisted the goal, and Kaka who equalized the score in the 901st for Orlando City.
Former Manchester City American midfielder Claudio Renner served as the football director of New York City, and Manchester City legend Vieira served as the head coach of New York City. Blue Bridge Magic Lampard also went directly from Manchester City to New York City, and even the operation of Manchester City was behind Pirlo's joining.
Manchester City is the headquarter and New York City is the first branch.
In 2015, City Football Group acquired 100% of the Australian Premier League Melbourne Heart Club and then changed its name to Melbourne City Club. In the following year, Melbourne City's star was Huluwa, who was freely transferred from Atletico Madrid.
Calaba went to Melbourne first and then to New York City, which are all operations of current Manchester City CEO and former Barcelona vice chairman Soriano.
Before Zhuo Yang joined last year, Manchester City also signed the most talented midfielder Aaron Mui from Melbourne City, but he was immediately loaned to Ha Town, which was in the Championship at the time. Ha Town successfully advanced to the Super League last season, and has bought out the team's core Mui from Manchester City this summer, setting a record of Ha Town of 10 million pounds.
Next, City Football Group acquired 19.7% of the shares of Yokohama Mariner in the J League, and was still called Yokohama Mariner, but did not become Yokohama City.
Then at the beginning of this year, City Football Group acquired Uruguay's second-tier team Tokui Athletics, now called Montevideo City Tokui Athletics, referred to as "Montevideo City Tokui". The Uruguay League will not be celebrated for the New Year, and Dream City Tokui is basically stable this year to enter the first level.
Manchester City's layout is naturally for the long-term prosperity of Manchester City clubs at the top of the pyramid. Without hindering their respective development, these sub-clubs will become Manchester City's scouting centers and talent delivery bases in their respective areas.
Manchester City will also collect players from all over the world, but they cannot use them for the time being, as well as some adopted children of youth training families, loaned them to these satellite clubs to support their combat power and also let the players level up.
In fact, this model is not new in football. In any wealthy club, who has few satellite teams of their own? Even Madiburg has three younger brothers, Oberhausen, Karlsruhe and Mepen.
But most of these are cooperative and are not completely determined by the lord model. Moreover, they are not as broad as Manchester City, and are basically limited to their own leagues. In addition to these teams that hold shares, Manchester City also has many cooperative clubs, which are also available on several continents.
The City Football Group has not stopped expanding, and the new Chinese football team in the fire naturally cannot escape their sight. The City Group's next plan is to screen out a suitable Chinese team for acquisition or investment.
Zhuo Yang is very interested in Manchester City's layout, and Manchester City is more interested in the Chinese football led by Zhuo Yang. The short-term future will be an inexhaustible treasure house for talents.
Recently, Zhuo Yang and Mubarak are negotiating the cooperation method, whether to inject mutual capital into shares, or no matter what, they are looking forward to the prospects of cooperation.
Zhuo Yang will retire sooner or later. It is inevitable that he will become a focused pianist after retirement. He will definitely be a professional wife-loving maniac and loyal husband, but it is impossible for him to have nothing to do with football from now on.
The cooperation with the City Group is Zhuo Yang preparing for his football life after retirement.
Manchester City's latest move was this month, which was just invested in acquiring 44.3% of the shares of La Liga promoted Ma Girona in August 2017. The tentacles stretched into Spain and the hills expanded again.
In fact, in addition to the five major signings of B seats, Ederson, Walker, Danilo and Mendy this summer, Manchester City also signed Brazil's U-20 international midfielder from Brazil Vascoda Gama. 19-year-old Douglas Louis spent 10.7 million, which was also a considerable move.
After the acquisition was completed, Douglas Luis was loaned directly to Girona, and Colombia winger Marlos Moreno was also with him, who bought it last summer and loaned it to Laco last season.
There are also two youth training young players, Alex Garcia and Pablo Mafio, who were also loaned to Girona. Both of these two guys are Espanyol, one midfielder and the other one is in the full-back. They have both played for Manchester City's first team and have participated in Manchester City's pre-season training for two consecutive years.
The Girona Club was founded in 1930 and is very young. It was originally a semi-professional team and began to compete in the professional league in the 1950s.
Starting from the 2012-13 season, Girona made three moves in the play-offs in the fourth year of the Segunda Second Division, with a thrilling relegation in the middle. All three upgrades failed, and the failure method was more bloody.
A AC Milan-style second round was reversed, a last stoppage time was tied by the opponent in the last minute, and a reverse Chongqing Lifan lost and relegated win helped Osasuna upgrade. Interested book friends can go and take a look. There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome in life, Girona can help you inspire.
Last season, Girona did not experience the torture and natural foul playoffs. They ranked second in the Segunda Division and were directly promoted. It seems that God has finally played enough.
After the upgrade, City Football Group acquired 44.3% of Girona's shares, and 44.3% of the shares belonged to Girona Football Group, and this Girona Football Group belongs to Perre Guardiola. Yes, he is Lao Gua's big brother and one of the four major football agents in Spain.
After defeating Brighton 4-0 in the first round of the Premier League, after winning a good start, Manchester City's team went to Girona in Catalonia, Spain for four days to train, and played a friendly match with his younger brother Girona.
Girona is 80 kilometers northeast of Barcelona, ​​only 60 kilometers away from the border between Spain and France, and only 30 kilometers away from Tosa, the Marina, where the Blue Diamond Fort Coco is located.
Have you heard of it and you have seen it. If you have the money to buy such a castle, you can try it? Zhuo Yang is not a stingy person. He generously invited the whole Manchester City team to visit the castle, and of course there are delicious food and beautiful scenery of Tosa Sapphire Beach.
Chapter completed!