CFG Expansion | Başakşehir to join? (p70)

Please ignore the thoughts of someone who can't leave bed for a few days.

Preseason 2023/24 should have a CFG football festival. With the Academy Stadium, Etihad and regional athletics stadium, teams from the CFG could play a knock out cup. Winner plays City at the Etihad.

Fans would surely be intrigued. It'd attract a few travelling fans too.

could even have pre qualification a week before:
Yokohama F. Marinos / Mumbai City / Sichuan Jiuniu* (group A)
NYC / Montevideo / Melbourne City (group B)

Palermo v Lommel SK
Troyes v Girona
group A winner v guest team
City EDS v ASIA winner

I used to play Football Manager as a kid. Every time I see City linked with buying another quality club, I get giddy about how we can develop and tap regions to bring through new players. Forget the commercial aspects. Every association with another corner of the world is a little bit of the City spirit.

*Sichuan Jiuniu finally switched to playing in sky blue this season. Fans and their board has criticized an away kit of this colour last season.
 
hey there, my dear friends of Blue Moon! it is finally happening!

Ferran Soriano has just arrived in Brazil, this morning. Alongside him, also Roel de Vries, Omar Berrada and Diego Gigliani are here... the public announcement of the purchase of Bahia by CFG is set to take place tomorrow evening. We, the Bahia supporters, are absolutely delighted with this historical moment for our club!

Cheers!

https://www.si.com/soccer/mancheste...-closing-in-on-purchase-of-esporte-club-bahia
 
This is also in the NYC FC thread in the General Forum, but perhaps is worth noting here as well, as this is a major step that CFG have been working towards for a long time. They've finally done a deal for a stadium in New York City, which should be built by 2027. CFG is footing the bill itself rather than relying on the kind of subsidies from local government that are common in the States for the construction of major sports venues. It's a BIG deal for CFG.

It looks a pretty impressive development, as well. It involves a 25K-seater stadium, affordable housing and a hotel as well as retail, and is based in Queens, so within the five boroughs. As the Red Bulls are outside the city boundaries, the latter point was vital: NYC FC can continue to claim to be the team of New York City itself.

The venue is close to Citi Field, home of the Mets (with whom they'll share car parking space), and to Flushing Meadows, the US National Tennis Centre which hosts the US Open. The retail part of the offer presumably includes bars and restaurants, so one could see this becoming the closest that the city has to a dedicated sports district.

The story in the New York Times is here: New York City Reaches Deal to Build Soccer Stadium in Queens

It requires registration, though, so I've copied the opening paras below:

New York City Reaches Deal to Build Soccer Stadium in Queens​

The New York City Football Club will pay roughly $780 million to build the stadium in Willets Point in Queens as part of a project that will include housing and a hotel.

By Dana Rubinstein and Ken Belson
Nov. 15, 2022

New York City officials have reached an agreement to build the city’s first professional soccer stadium, the centerpiece of a giant mixed-use development that would transform a long-underutilized waterfront section of Queens.

The 25,000-seat stadium for the New York City Football Club is slated to rise on city land by 2027 in the Willets Point neighborhood of Queens, across the street from the right field foul pole of Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, Mayor Eric Adams and the soccer team’s officials confirmed on Tuesday.

The stadium would be the first significant major-league sports venue to be built in the city since 2012, and is set to be the focal point of a 23-acre project that includes a 250-room hotel and 2,500 units of housing. Officials say the project would be the city’s largest development of entirely affordable housing since the Mitchell-Lama developments of the 1970s


The deal represents Mayor Eric Adams’s most ambitious economic development initiative and comes as he is about to complete his first year in office. It also spells the end of two sagas: the team’s decade-long search for a dedicated soccer stadium and an even longer conundrum about the future of Willets Point, a once thriving conglomeration of auto body shops.



“Queens, which is the world’s borough, now will become the home of soccer, which is the world’s sport,” Maria Torres-Springer, the deputy mayor for economic and workforce development, said in an interview on Tuesday.
Unlike many stadium deals, including one for the Buffalo Bills negotiated this year by Gov. Kathy Hochul that included nearly $900 million in public funds, city officials said subsidies for this project are largely limited to infrastructure improvements at the site and property tax breaks for the stadium.


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And here's an image of the proposed stadium and surrounds:

NYC stadium.jpg
 
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