Cumbie Blue
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As many others have said yet again its because we have changed the model into one that works on and off the pitch and it is too late for the others to catch up so they have to shut it down. It's not (just) about making money as a minority investor in a club, its an opportunity (rightly or wrongly, another debate) for all clubs in the CFG to benefit from the available talent pool as a whole and for that talent to develop and reach full potential whatever that maybe.The multi-club ownership stuff from Levy is fucking rich considering it's exactly how he ended up in the door at Spurs in the first place. He and Joe Lewis were owners at Prague, Athens, Basel, and Rangers too I think by the time they brought into Spurs when Sugar was the owner.
Luiz at Villa a great example, we identify the talent from around the globe (Brazil) and bring him to City at 19, we loan to Girona to develop him as we could not get a visa, we move on in terms of talent acquisition in this 2 year period and age range (Lavia springs to mind, I may be out timing wise here but the point remains we don't stand still), la Liga experience secures a permanent move to Villa for a reasonable fee and international caps follow. Talent, clubs and CFG all happy. The cycle continues.
Its perfect, loan to a CFG club who benefit on the pitch, talent develops in an environment appropriate to the ability at that time, performance and potential next steps monitored within the CFG and no doubt discussed before decision taken on future (another CFG club, release, / sell) before initial contract runs out. Akin to a series of internal secondments for top talent to improve knowledge and skill base before moving into appropriate positions at the company HQ once well versed in how the business works.
So much better then buying them in and using the standard loan system and our rivals know it. They can't catch us up without putting a decade worth of development into a similar project, unwilling to devote the time and finances as they need to pay those dividends / interest payments so all they can do is complain again to the rule makers and hope they move the goalposts again.
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