Manchester City

Fantastic was waiting for it to be official, City know how to market their club and set examples through the community football fields they built in various states in addition to their current visit to NY and other pre-season tournaments "Audi cup", thanks to the heirarchy's visionary leadership City is a growing franchise and our fans are increasing gradually globally.

Welcome to the world of football NYCSC.

I have seen many butthurt utd fans commenting on this story

i grew up a yankees fan, the first ever team i supported in any sport.. i feel like throwing up..lol.

the liverpool-red sox link made sense and i welcomed it, but this f*****g sucks. why are the YANKEES buying a soccer club anyways? world's gone mad.

http://postimg.org/image/6y9uwmc65/


lmfao dont let your butt hurt so much

@SIF why not? it's a win-win situation, "soccer" is becoming more popular in the states which in return brings more new yorkers into football and City expand their marketing and fan base.

well it's a risk; if the team isnt popular, it could become a financial drain on the yankees and city. i think the whole marketing stuff is a bit overrated, i don't see how owning a franchise will drastically improve either teams' fanbase. what WILL improve the fanbase for all teams is the new nbc tv deal making virtually all premiership games freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! :D

does anyone know when that deal takes place?

The MLS is growing at a vigorous pace every year, anyone who follows it and goes to games regularly can't deny that. A team in Queens will almost certainly be popular. Having a team there promoting the City brand will definitely raise City's profile. As for whether or not that will have much impact on MANCHESTER City is yet to be seen.

The implications of the deal are what I wonder about. Will the likes of Suarez and Rekik (or their 2015 equivalents) be sent to NYC on loan? Will the best of the NYC team be cherry-picked by MCFC? It should be interesting.

i think every united fan's butt will hurt crazy but especially @SoccerIsFootball's butt hahahahah and rightly so they cant digest the fact how big city is growing and at the speed of light!!!!!

P S reports in Italy say that the Cavani and Dzeko deal is done and dusted the reason Bigon went to city is to formalize a few things but deal was done before the season even ended! f*ck i cant wait for next season to beat those "butt hurt" united fans 6 - 1 again!

you guys aren't making any sense. how many of you actually live in the USA as opposed to in europe? city owning a new small club wont raise its own profile. that makes zero sense.

people here in the usa already follow the european teams more than they follow the mls. there's a reason nbc is buying the epl tv rights. those games are already immensely popular here. so much so that mainstream sports channels like ESPN play highlights from epl games regularly now, and of course had games available on espn apps and such for free. buying out a team wont make a difference. as a us neutral fan, why should i watch city because they own a team in the us? logic fail. it makes more sense for city to buy top american players if they want an american following. everyone knows about dempsey and donovan, so when they perform abroad the usa fans notice and pay more attention to fulham/spurs(dempsey, friedal)/roma(bradley)/everton(tim howard, brad guzan, and when donovan was there) and now dortmund since they signed a promising 17 year old american recently. this reverse situation makes no sense to me.

as a yankees and utd fan, of course it makes my stomach cringe, but from a footballing financial point of view, this move suits the mls way more than it suits city or the yankees.

lol and manchesthair you sound pretty desperate.

Yeah, read that this morning too – apparently they are trying to negotiate with us to include Dzeko in the deal.

As for as Falcao, I don’t think we really need him when we have Tevez & Aguero; nevertheless, should one of the Argentinian amigos leave (which I hope not), then he would make more sense.

i hope we got both

Falcao or Cavani don't matter who comes in as long as we keep Aguero! if he leaves i will truly be gutted.

here's a great tribute for our hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwZVVqj55wQ

the outerwear looks cheap. i hope the actual jersey is better

u watching it or u dancing in this video?

Oscar has been great for Chelsea but Coutinho has blown me away in the short time his been at Liverpool. I'll have to go with Coutinho!

God damn, this really makes you wounder, Brazil have some scary young talent Neymar, Oscar, Coutinho, Ganso, Moura, Paulinho, Damiao, Rafael etc. I'm getting a little nervous about 2014WC.

haha that was pretty dope

Really? I like Kolo but are you sure? Or is this just a rumor?

rumor obviously transfer window is not open officially yet