CFG Expansion | Başakşehir to join? (p70)

[blueparrot]

Africa is football mad with a lot of support and appreciation for City.

It is however a poor country with generally poor facilities,infrastructure and administration.

Merchandise tends to be snide.

Corruption is also institutionalised.

Is this the reason why we don’t own or have an affiliation with a club or are there other reasons ?

All Africa ?

 

[Gone for a Burton]

All Africa ?

Cape Town is a great place,more affluent with less crime, but still some underlying cultural issues.

World Cup stadium on the water front is good

 

[levets]

To be fair, the club isn't even 7 years old, so it's not like CFG have come in and trampled on centuries of tradition. I'm sure there are business reasons for the move. Shame for the regular match day goers, though can't imagine there are a large number of them.

The business reasons being Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing (both in size and financially) cities in China. It is a ‘football City’ and we have a decent supporters club there

 

[DJ1]

Has Mancini been asked to do any consultation work for them yet?

Let me check with Everton

 

[Damocles]

This is a bit out of the blue, if true.

This never happened right?

 

[Ric]

This never happened right?

Yeah, don’t think it ever actually materialised. Certainly haven’t seen anything since.

 

[cleavers]

They are thought of as a team with no fans and no history. Sound familiar?

They'll fit in very well then.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Perhaps they're all stuck on an Istanbul bus to the stadium to announce it?

 

[LongsightM13]

Perhaps they're all stuck on an Istanbul bus to the stadium to announce it?

They’re based near the final stadium iirc

 

[Asa's left peg]

I think there are some countries that even the Emiratis can't do business with. You would have thought that we would have a club in Argentina by now and even Bahia in Brazil, surprised me.
Some of the eastern European counties have dubious ownerships and supporters. I love Greece but I wouldn't go anywhere near a football club, even with a billion to spend- you'd have to pay in cash anyway.