Manchester City Owners Set To Buy Another Club

Posted Friday, March 31, 2017 by thesportbible.com

One of my favourite things to do in Football Manager is adding multiple managers in the same game, managing clubs in different countries of course. The owners of Manchester City seem to be copying me.

Personally I like to start by managing one club and then adding another manager to take control of an international team.

Eventually the club manager will also get an international job and the international manager will get a club job, far quicker than the other guy gets his second job of course.

For a short time in 1999 Kevin Keegan was manager of England and Fulham, I assume this is the only reason you can manage an international and club team at the same time on FM- 18 years later!

I've gone so far as to have two back up names for my second managers, either David Roye or Odlanor Eldis- the latter a throwback to my Sensible World of Soccer days which combined Ronaldo spelt backwards and my surname spelt backwards.

Manchester City owners seem to have a similar outlook on football, although they've admittedly not bought any countries, yet.

So far the City Football Group (CFG) own the Manchester version, New York City FC, Melbourne City and Yokohama F. Marinos and according to the Telegraph they're going to be adding one more.

Billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan is expected to announce the deal to buy second division Uruguayan team Club Atletico Torque in the next few days.

Mansour applauding his latest investment, no doubt it'll be a drop in the ocean to such a rich billionaire, there's no poor billionaire's as it happens.

Atletico Torque would be the smallest clubs in the Abu Dhabi company's growing list portfolio of random clubs from around the world.

As well as commercial advantages the new addition to the Manchester City franchise could help sign the best of South American youth to move to the Manchester club.

Patrick Vieira was manager of City's youth team before moving to New York to become first team manager at the North American version.

With a growing market in the Far East it wouldn't be a surprise to find City investing in a team in the Chinese Super League to go along with their Japanese team.

Where will it end?