City Football Group

[Sean of the Shed]

Another club sells its soul. Not that this one had much of one anyway.

https://twitter.com/eurofootcom/status/1759159268651986985?t=RquYd8ZuouW_vujz7BjsXQ&s=19

[ad hoc]

This strikes me as the modern version of a marriage between scions of dynasties to form great alliances

[Satchmo Distel]

Does this skirt around the restriction of having two clubs in the CL?

[ursus arctos]

Unlikely to be relevant, given that they are 33 points off the last qualifying place, but likely yes, as it doesn't appear to involve common ownership

[Furtho]

On a related matter, there are strong press rumours in Japan saying that Red Bull are looking to take over a J-League club. This would be the first example of a Japanese club going under foreign ownership - the nearest thing at the moment is Yokohama F Marinos, part of the City Football Group, although as I understand it the arrangement at Marinos is only at the level of 20% or so of shares. The number one candidate for Red Bull appears to be Omiya Ardija, who after a number of years of mismanagement will this coming weekend start their first-ever season in J3. Omiya have always been owned, although seemingly not very enthusiastically, by NTT as Japan's equivalent to British Telecom. If the deal goes ahead, an immediate point of contention for Ardija fans may be any proposal to change the club's name or colours, given that Omiya is only about 10km from Urawa Reds.

[G-Man]

Unlikely to be relevant, given that they are 33 points off the last qualifying place, but likely yes, as it doesn't appear to involve common ownership

UEFA doesn't mind anyway. They had no trouble accepting Red Bulls' franchises from Leipzig and Salzburg into the CL. As long as they can see the tiniest of loopholes, they are happy.