Hello I'm Mike Chapman welcome to the Business of Sport Podcast on the Athletic with us as ever, Matt Slater,

football news reporter at the Athletic and today we're going to be talking about the

City Football Group. The Athletic have this week published an in-depth piece

looking at the entire city football group.

So that's the group that controls Manchester City, New York City FC,

Melbourne City FC amongst others.

It's so in depth that it's actually in two parts. So we're going to explore

some of the themes of that on today's pod with Professor Simon Chadwick and the

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Let's start the pod then with Professor Simon Chadwick who's the director of your Asian sport at the EM Leon Business School and a man who knows an awful lot about the city football group and in particular Ferran Soriano Simon

Welcome to the pod first of all just give us an overview really of City Football group

So City Football Group is obviously based upon a traditional English football club based in

East Manchester that was acquired by an Abu Dhabi government investment vehicle about 12 years ago.

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