dazby wrote:Incidentally, last night on our version of sky sports, in the half hour bulletin there were 3 stories about the takeover. No coverage whatsoever of the league cup semi. Interesting.
xavi6 wrote:Dubaimancityfan wrote:dazby wrote:I hear that the Melbourne derby (can't name the other side now !!) attracts 80,000 !!
Not quite, 45,000 at most, but your point still stands.
Melbourne Victory v Melbourne City has the potential to be a massive derby shown worldwide, and there's three of them a season.
patrickblue wrote:According to some guy they interviewed om talkshite (Aussie football expert of some sort), rumour is that Shanghai is next.
Dubaimancityfan wrote:xavi6 wrote:Dubaimancityfan wrote:dazby wrote:I hear that the Melbourne derby (can't name the other side now !!) attracts 80,000 !!
Not quite, 45,000 at most, but your point still stands.
Melbourne Victory v Melbourne City has the potential to be a massive derby shown worldwide, and there's three of them a season.
Thanks mate. Your figure sounds more realistic. I think Socceroos home matches attract crowds of 60,000 plus ?
Socrates wrote:patrickblue wrote:According to some guy they interviewed om talkshite (Aussie football expert of some sort), rumour is that Shanghai is next.
China would be my best guess too...
Press conference with Sun Jihai coming soon lol
Dameerto wrote:Socrates wrote:patrickblue wrote:According to some guy they interviewed om talkshite (Aussie football expert of some sort), rumour is that Shanghai is next.
China would be my best guess too...
Press conference with Sun Jihai coming soon lol
It depends what our intention is - I think we are aiming to have a club in each of the major geographic regions that the world is divided into for domestic club purposes, and the Sheikh already owns a club that falls into the 'Asia' category (which includes China). In fact only two of the six regions are still open to us (assuming we want one club in each) - Africa and South America. South Africa seems like the obvious choice for its region in terms of having the most developed league in Africa (and one that attracts Premier league clubs such as ourselves in preseason matches) - as for South America my head says Brazil due to it's population and emerging market status, but my heart says Argentina simply BECAUSE.
Obviously the Sheikh personally owns Al Jazira whilst Melbourne and New York are owned/controlled by Man City so this might have some influence on whether City can own a club in the same region as Al Jazira. I'm not familiar with the rules to be honest.
Socrates wrote:Dameerto wrote:Socrates wrote:patrickblue wrote:According to some guy they interviewed om talkshite (Aussie football expert of some sort), rumour is that Shanghai is next.
China would be my best guess too...
Press conference with Sun Jihai coming soon lol
It depends what our intention is - I think we are aiming to have a club in each of the major geographic regions that the world is divided into for domestic club purposes, and the Sheikh already owns a club that falls into the 'Asia' category (which includes China). In fact only two of the six regions are still open to us (assuming we want one club in each) - Africa and South America. South Africa seems like the obvious choice for its region in terms of having the most developed league in Africa (and one that attracts Premier league clubs such as ourselves in preseason matches) - as for South America my head says Brazil due to it's population and emerging market status, but my heart says Argentina simply BECAUSE.
Obviously the Sheikh personally owns Al Jazira whilst Melbourne and New York are owned/controlled by Man City so this might have some influence on whether City can own a club in the same region as Al Jazira. I'm not familiar with the rules to be honest.
Fair points but cannot see A-League being that big in China anytime soon and this may be a market we would like to impact on directly?
BlueinBosnia wrote:Socrates wrote:Dameerto wrote:Socrates wrote:patrickblue wrote:According to some guy they interviewed om talkshite (Aussie football expert of some sort), rumour is that Shanghai is next.
China would be my best guess too...
Press conference with Sun Jihai coming soon lol
It depends what our intention is - I think we are aiming to have a club in each of the major geographic regions that the world is divided into for domestic club purposes, and the Sheikh already owns a club that falls into the 'Asia' category (which includes China). In fact only two of the six regions are still open to us (assuming we want one club in each) - Africa and South America. South Africa seems like the obvious choice for its region in terms of having the most developed league in Africa (and one that attracts Premier league clubs such as ourselves in preseason matches) - as for South America my head says Brazil due to it's population and emerging market status, but my heart says Argentina simply BECAUSE.
Obviously the Sheikh personally owns Al Jazira whilst Melbourne and New York are owned/controlled by Man City so this might have some influence on whether City can own a club in the same region as Al Jazira. I'm not familiar with the rules to be honest.
Fair points but cannot see A-League being that big in China anytime soon and this may be a market we would like to impact on directly?
Wouldn't that be a massive clash of interests when it comes to the AFC Champions League, though?
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