MANCHESTER CITY’S owners are looking at adding Dutch side NAC Breda to their stable of clubs. The City Football Group currently own or have stakes in 10 clubs around the world and are looking to expand further. A strong relationship exists already with several youngsters moving from the Etihad to Breda on loan in recent […]
MANCHESTER CITY’S owners are looking at adding Dutch side NAC Breda to their stable of clubs.
The City Football Group currently own or have stakes in 10 clubs around the world and are looking to expand further.
A strong relationship exists already with several youngsters moving from the Etihad to Breda on loan in recent years – including Angelino, Manu Garcia and Enes Unai.
Now there is a chance of them firming up that relationship further with more talks pencilled in about the joining the CFG.
Sources within the group say that nothing has yet been finalised but an agreement remains possible.
Breda would become the fifth European club to be added to the stable – alongside City, Girona, Troyes and Lommel.
The CFG also has clubs in New York, Melbourne, Japan, China, India and Uruguay.
Troyes were the last club CFG acquired in 2020.
CFG took over the Ligue 1 outfit in 2020 after ditching their interest in Nancy.
They were due to pay around £12.2million for the second-tier club but talks were put on ice when the lockdown was imposed during covid.
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City’s owners also expressed an interest in acquiring a minority stake in Russian giants Spartak Moscow last year.
But talks have yet to materialise into anything concrete up until now.
However, with Russia engulfed in a siege of neighbours Ukraine, it’s unlikely that CFG will want to continue with their pursuit of Spartak for the foreseeable future.
