In the past couple of months, we’ve been seeing several stories claiming Manchester City could soon have new partners in Brazil, as the City Group are looking to acquire a club in the South American country.
Now a story from UOL’s blogger Rafael Reis brings a few more details on this chase.
This year, many Brazilian clubs are turning into SAFs, which allows them to have owners for the first time. The City Group is said to be watching these moves before deciding to buy one of them.
One of the interesting claims in this story is that there’d be no interest in buying any of the 12 big clubs in Brazil. That means the likes of Corinthians, Palmeiras, São Paulo, Santos, Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense, Vasco, Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro, Grêmio and Internacional would all be ruled out.
Manchester City’s owners are expected to go after a more local side, ‘to start their history almost from zero’.
So there are two scenarios in this case. One would be to go after a traditional club and keep their name, badge and uniforms. That’d be the case of Bahia, as the negotiations with the Salvador side have been reported for a while.
The other option, according to UOL, would be to buy a smaller club and do something similar done with Montevideo City, who adopted Manchester City’s visual identity.
The City Group’s idea is to have a club in Brazil who can take young players and then either use them at the Premier League side or sell them to European clubs.
