'It's like there's no distance between Manchester and Montevideo' With multiple affiliated clubs and an expansive scouting department, the City Football Group - who own MCFC - have cultivated 'an advantage' in South America. 📝 SamLee
it is explained in detail since its inception and the web of players exchanged between clubs is almost impossible to keep track of.
As a young club, they lag behind the biggest teams in the country when it comes to signing players, so they have to do things differently. will have become familiar with over the years, given their recent history of bringing in recruits with buy-out clauses or from clubs in financial difficulty. Torque do not have their own dedicated scouts but benefit from that vast CFG South American scouting network, which is unrivalled across the continent, never mind Uruguay, and the central team responsible for finding players across the globe.
Gigliani is a less well-known part of the set-up but, according to those who work with him, he is vital in maintaining communication between the group’s clubs, participating in every meeting whether they involve board members, negotiators, administrators or the sporting department. An Argentinian, he is described as Soriano’s right-hand man and fundamental to the set-up.
Last January, the CFG added Club Bolivar as its first partner club. Unlike Torque, a young club which even Marcelo Claure, the president, has funded the team beyond the means of other Bolivian clubs with the aim of competing in the continent’s premier competition but, despite winning their domestic title again this year, their performance in the Libertadores was regarded as a failure.
In terms of the CFG’s footprint in South America overall, Cotterill, who has lived on the continent for 20 years, says: “They are well-respected by those working within the football business but while the average football fan in South America will know Manchester City and New York City FC, they probably won’t be aware of the group behind them.”
Brazil is on the list of priorities now, too, although finding the ideal candidate has not been easy.
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