City Football Group, which owns Manchester City, is looking for clubs to buy from three different countries, according to the Turkish academy coach.
On Saturday, for example Evening newspaper and Helsingin sanomat newspaper told about the rumor that the giant club Manchester City was planning to acquire a Finnish football club.
The information is based on the Turkish sports media Ajanssporin for an interviewwhere Manchester City’s junior academy coach Mustafa Alper Avci said that City Football Group (CFG) is planning to acquire a club from three different countries: Finland, Turkey and South Korea.
City Football Group is an Arab Emirates-owned company that owns and manages Manchester City, which means that the Finnish club would not be attracted directly by Manchester City, but by its background company.
CFG owns a total of 13 football clubs around the world. After City, the most famous are Girona, which is second in the Spanish La Liga after a great fall, MLS club New York City and Palermo, which plays in Serie B.
Manchester City
New York City
Melbourne City
Yokohama F. Marinos
Montevideo City Torque
Girona FC
Sichuan Jiuniu
Mumbai City FC
Lommel SK
Esperance Sportive Troyes Aube
Palermo FC
Bahia
Club Bolivar
Studies and plans
The financial management of Manchester City’s owners has raised suspicions of circumventing the rules of fair play. City is being investigated for no less than 115 financial violations, the earliest of which are from 2009.
The Society is a British magazine According to the Daily Mail facing trial in the fall of 2024.
Chairman of Manchester City and CFG Khaldoon Al Mubarak has not allowed degrees to overshadow City’s future plans, which he opened in June.
CFG plans to invest money in the players, coaches, facilities and academies of the teams it owns.
– It’s always about growth. It grows, stops, puts things in order and takes the next step, one at a time. We are not going to stop, Al Mubarak said.
– We increase our value and bring happiness to every community and company we have around the world.
City’s ownership hierarchy also plans to increase the capacity of the Manchester team’s Etihad home stadium, which holds more than 53,000 spectators, to more than 60,000.
The stadium project, worth 350 million euros, includes e.g. hotel, shops, restaurants and a 3,000-seat supporter zone.
Owned by the United Arab Emirates since 2008, Manchester City has grown into a major Premier League club that has won the league seven times since the 2011-2012 season, culminating in the 2022-2023 season by winning the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.