How Manchester City became the Disney of Football

This is the story of how Manchester City became the first truly global football organization.

⏱ Timestamps
00:00 Football in Manchester
01:27 The Rise
03:40 The Strategy behind the Money
06:56 Ups & Downs
09:19 The Future?

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Athletic Interest is a video essay series that investigates business stories from the world of sports.
Shout out to Suraj Bhaskaran for the support with researching and writing the script for this video!

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[VishXX]

Make a video of Arsenal on how they have gone from Invincible to Invisible.

[jamilvints]

If it were Disney, this video is claimed by Man City now.

[totochannel]

Money is not everything but, everything needs money👍

[perfectdark]

Now imagine Disney actually owning a club, what a nightmare that would be.

[abbasdamda]

how do you guys not have millions of subscribers? the production quality is so good

[apurvkumar]

Me on my way to buy athletic interest's patreon so that they will be able to buy a club just like Sheikh Mansoor did

[aloktigga]

City group in 2021

Manchester city fc champions of england
Melbourne city fc champions of australia
Mumbai city fc champions of india

City group is unstoppable
3 league titles in same year

[aarons]

Now there are 4 current domestic champions in the City football group:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City
🇺🇸 New York City
🇮🇳 Mumbai City
🇦🇺 Melbourne City
Ridiculously well run

[fbgenius]

High-Quality videos as usual. You guys are so underrated, and your editing is incredible.

[imgoingtocountdownfromthir]

Meanwhile at Old Trafford, they have Micky Mouse owners! 😂

[pkingglazersout]

Just imagine telling a Man City fan in the early 2000s that in less than 2 decades they would be dominating the Prem and competing for the CL trophy while already having won 3 titles in 4 years. They would admit you to the nearest mental asylum.

[robert]

Man city is the best example of how to invest your club wisely.
Man utd is the example of how NOT to invest your club wisely.

[sagarmane]

Signing Pep Guardiola was their best investment this decade!

[michaelthapa]

My body gets full of goosebumps
Whenever i hear

Thank you legend for the Memories

[stuehl]

CFG is like Perfect Inc. from that Nike commercial where clones take over football

[herald]

genius business model and it totally makes sense. Soriano is a mastermind.

[jayfritz]

There's a lot of bitterness from fans of rival clubs, but there's no other fans that can honestly say they don't wish this had happened to their club.

[lolo]

CFG might have clubs all around the world. YOU have fans all over the globe!
Cheers from a French Patreon! 👌🏻

[Akash-jzvf]

After Soriano left, only bad transfer decisions followed in Barcelona.
We didn't made any good transfers other than some exceptions like David Villa, Frenkie de Jong, Suarez etc. Even letting Suarez go was a bad decision.

[ando]

I felt like watching a documentary in national geographic