City Football Group (CFG) buy into Chinese club Sichuan Jiuniu FC (from Chengdu)

[Delphinho]

An announcement for a club in China is imminent.

Deal is all agreed. Forget Shenzhen, Shanghai or Beijing.

Still a place with a catchment of around 8-9m people, and some huge deals will be flowing back to Manchester as a result.

Dalian Yifang with Carrasco signing for us?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

An announcement for a club in China is imminent.

Deal is all agreed. Forget Shenzhen, Shanghai or Beijing.

Still a place with a catchment of around 8-9m people, and some huge deals will be flowing back to Manchester as a result.

Sun Jihai taking over from Khaldoon? Gets my vote.

Sunny is actually a big businessman these days and his sports technology & media company employs 100 people. Interestingly much of the funding came from CMC who own 14% of CFG.

 

[Danamy]

Sun Jihai taking over from Khaldoon? Gets my vote.

Sunny is actually a big businessman these days and his sports technology & media company employs 100 people. Interestingly much of the funding came from CMC who own 14% of CFG.

Has he still got a Chippy?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Has he still got a Chippy?

His dad had the chippy.

 

[urban genie]

Guangzhou R & F play in blue and white already

And Tiajin wear blue

 

[Danamy]

His dad had the chippy.

He"s such a big businessman he invested in it, Aye Aye yippie Sun Jihai

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

He"s such a big businessman he invested in it, Aye Aye yippie Sun Jihai

Allan Green will have a field day with the squad numbers.

 

[petrusha]

Interesting that it's not Shenzhen, as CFG's China strategy looked (to my uninformed eye) to be focusing there and there isn't a team. Anyway, I'm sure they know what they're doing and have tapped the knowledge of the Chinese partner as to how and where to invest to maximum effect.

 

[taleofbluehalves]

An announcement for a club in China is imminent.

Deal is all agreed. Forget Shenzhen, Shanghai or Beijing.

Still a place with a catchment of around 8-9m people, and some huge deals will be flowing back to Manchester as a result.

I’d laugh my head of if we accelerated past them off the field as well as on it!

 

[cjn]

An announcement for a club in China is imminent.

Deal is all agreed. Forget Shenzhen, Shanghai or Beijing.

Still a place with a catchment of around 8-9m people, and some huge deals will be flowing back to Manchester as a result.

What is absolutely wild about China is that a city of 8-9mm wouldn't even put it in the top 15 population centers in the country. There are cities of 10-15mm people that most people in the US or UK have never even heard of.