{"id":80788,"date":"2019-02-18T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/18\/manchester-city-set-to-add-third-tier-chinese-club-to-global-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:35:22","slug":"manchester-city-set-to-add-third-tier-chinese-club-to-global-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=80788","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City set to add third-tier Chinese club to global portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Purchase of Sichuan Jiuniun due to be confirmed this week\u2022 CFG has stakes in clubs in countries including Japan and SpainManchester City\u2019s owners are set to announce the purchase of Chinese third-tier outfit Sichuan Jiuniu on Wednesday in the latest acquisition to their growing portfolio of clubs around the world.The City Football Group has been searching for a new project in China having sold a 13% share of the company \u2013 owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family \u2013 in 2015 to the private equity groups China Media Capital and CITIC Capital. CFG has stakes in clubs in New York, Australia, Japan, Spain and Uruguay, and the partnership with Jiuniu is expected to be confirmed at a press conference on Wednesday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/feb\/18\/manchester-city-chinese-club-sichuan-jiuniun-third-tier-portfolio-cfg\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City set to add third-tier Chinese club to global portfolio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Purchase of Sichuan Jiuniun due to be confirmed this week\u2022 CFG has stakes in clubs in countries including Japan and SpainManchester City\u2019s owners are set to announce the purchase of Chinese third-tier outfit Sichuan Jiuniu on Wednesday in the latest acquisition to their growing portfolio of clubs around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}