John Textor, owner of many clubs including Botafogo, recently posted a picture saying he was cheering for Flamengo, Botafogo’s rival. He clearly doesn’t live and breathe Botafogo like their fans, he just sees it as an asset.

It's an obvious conflict of interest and it puts a cap on the growth and success that a feeder club can achieve

I don't see why people should be allowed to own multiple teams (in the same sport, I mean) because of the fact it's a conflict of interest if they end up playing each other (like Leipzig vs Salzburg, or now Man United vs Nice)

These companies/groups are running football like the MLB, effectively creating farm teams. And amazing job on this video man. This was really good

I think it'd be okay if it was like, one per continent. Good pathway for players from non traditional football countries to get into European club football. Seeing City Football Group own like 5 clubs in Europe alone definitely leaves a bad taste in the mouth though.

I’ve always thought that Welsh clubs which play within the EFL pyramid (Swansea, Cardiff, Wrexham etc.) are missing a trick re. the footballing, multi-club ownership trend. You needn’t be a billionaire owned club for a multi-club ownership model to succeed, an abbreviated version could be feasible for poorer Welsh clubs. Those Welsh clubs within English leagues are fairly unique within world football, as they technically play in a foreign league and don’t compete within Wales’ own domestic league. If Swansea, for example, owned a secondary, far smaller club based within their own county in the Welsh football pyramid, they could use it as a youth, coach and talent scouting affiliate club… on the larger club’s doorstep! A Swansea or Cardiff “multi-club” ownership model isn’t a realistic expectation in the immediate future as those example clubs are badly run. However, imagine if Wrexham who are on an immense rise, decided to purchase a smaller, North Wales based club within the WPL? Wrexham could use their second club as a base for youth talent development, with Wrexham (the parent club) perhaps not able to give youth players a chance in a fast-climbing, senior squad.

I'll leave a like for that Austria shirt alone❤

You should see how it is in Mexico, multiclub ownership (up to 3 clubs!) competing in the same championship

As an OL fan, We were a bit worried at the beginning of the season but Textor invested alot this winter to put the team back on track and it looks like it's working. For the disagreement with the ex-management, they were justified. OL had a really week recruitment cell with only 3 scouts and practically no using of datas, which penalized the club a lot in modern football ( a lot of bust transfer). So the Textor takeover as president has been accelerated to help changing the club mentality and organization quicker in order to stay relevant in modern football for the future.

We have mumbai city fc of city football group And used to have Athletico In a country where getting investment and make quality academy and enhancing quality is rare , we are thankful to both the groups

That 8-1 thrashing of City is definitely one of my fondest memories as a Boro fan. Carling Cup win, european run, and the FA cup run where we beat United and Tottenham will always hold a special place.

Crazy (in a good way) to see your channel edging closer to the 300K sub mark, well deserved as your content is honestly quality man. Been here since 20K ⌚

Note: Seattle Sounders were not founded in 2007. They were founded in 1974 and played in the original NASL and a ton of other leagues before joining MLS.

Absolutely love your videos! Hope you keep going for a long time!

Suddenly the German model of club ownership looks more and more sensible.

Just imagine your club is brought by someone else. Instead of growing a team or improving them to win trophies they use it as feeder club. So whenever you have a good squad that can make you win a parent club will come and take away. Just imagine if big clubs like AC Milan or Inter Milan or few big Brazilian club are brought under such and treated as a feeder club you will not love it. Allow mco but make a strict rule because we all know they are doing this to get more talented players due to which they start poaching all talented players like Chelsea did in January last year poaching highly talented young Brazilian talents.

One of the worst trends in modern football is fans of established clubs decrying and blocking any attempts by the nouveau riche to break into the elite. It was fine when they had all the money, all the top players and all the trophies but they don’t like the idea of others doing the same.

Great editing on inserting "Euros" Tinashe lol, gave me a little chuckle

Baking powder is far more popular in the football world than I thought! Strange that the authorities take such interest in aspiring bakers.

Thank you very much for the video! Have a great weekend! 🙏🌤️

Tinashe, your video essays are the stuff of legend! It's a big inspiration for my own stuff in recent months as well, just wanted to send a quick thanks for that!

If it takes you a long time to prep a video I listen to while I eat while I open packs in FC 24, take my thumbs up brother.

Thank you for these vids. As an American with very baseline knowledge of European club football, these topics are always very informative.

Can we just appreciate that my guy puts out a 30 minute video on something that don’t get talked about enough and neither guarantee views, give this man an applaud❤️👏

You're doing the lord's work! One my favorite football yotubers out there! Keep doing what you're doing.

as an austrian, i got very excited when i saw the kit you are wearing. :()

I appreciate the effort you put into videos like this my brother. Keep grinding, only big things for you ahead 💪🏿👏🏿🙏🏿

rocking that Austria Jersey!! also fantastic video… greetings from Vienna :)

Thank you for the best footballchanel on KZfaq. Keep on keeping on bro

New to your channel mate. Excellent content in the footballs sphere, especially after finding my former regular channels getting stale. Cheers!

New to the channel just wanted to say well done, this is a really great video, informative and factual. Thanks!

Do a vid on Klopp and Xavi as they are leaving their respective clubs and it’s sad to see them go.😢😢😢

Very very good video man. Shout out from Strasbourg.

My club Leicester, we love our owners and they also own Oh leuven. I think we loaned some players and such but seems like both clubs are independent and not too close.

Thank you for the great video like always!

Great job man! Thanks for such informative video. It's a bit sad to see that everything goes around for money. But it's still a beautiful game so let's at least enjoy it 😐

The satire line got me good 😂 keep up the good work 👍

You deserve all the recognition in the world for making these awesome videos :)

For legal reasons I will agree with you that your channel is just satire (but we all know that in reality your content is nothing short but amazing analysis!) Thank you so much for all the hard work!

There should be some regulation in place. Like players not being able to be loaned out in their first season after joining a club. There is clear distortion of competition when big clubs such as City buy players that could have strengthened their competitors without ever planning to use them in their actual team. Instead they are loaned off to some farming branch. I highly doubt these players would have signed with the clubs they are loaned off to. Imo everything points to market manipulation and there they will reach a point the leagues can't ignore anymore.

I’m a Monster man myself. Could you imagine if there were Monster F1 and Football teams? The rivalry would be hilarious

loved the video. Glad to have found your channel

The best channel with soccer stories,Tinashe does not miss😂

Please tell me that i'm not the only one who feels that football is really not the same anymore😕

Amazing video again bro❤thank you

Not surprised that pretty soon, we may soon see a chart on football ownership similar to that of vehicle brands / FCMG ownership where 1 brand / company owns several other brands

Big up for this type of content🤝🏾

3:40 Networking😁👍

omgg that shirt is fire, im from austria and find it awesome to see someone from another country wear it😍

Appreciate the Austria jersey! Love from Vienna

awesome content. you "uncovered" a lot of criminals & shed light on many of their "illegal & unethical" activities.

Love it, that you wear a Österreich Shirt.

Have enjoyed a few of your videos recently - you’re a cool dude!

Great video and explained in a way most can understand!

Great vid as always and an excellent subjective that isnt talked about enough. I'm not a big fan of MCO's personally but can see where they can be usual like the Red Bull model. If i was a Crystal Palace fan though I'd be concerned, i think their in for a shock once Lyon start firing again. Much easier to get Lyon into one if the 3 UEFA competition than crystal palace who lets be honest are mostly battling to stay in the league every season. On a separate note, i know you must be cooking up a AFCON video release for next week after the final has concluded, it will be criminal if you don't 😂😂

great job thanks!!

Great vid! Just 1 correction, RWD Molenbeek is in the first devision this year and not the second.

fantastic work once again. Thank you for the education in the details of this topic. If Im to be honest, in a hypothetical fantasy I would love to own a Successful football club in the future and with that hat on, the potential to set up a network of teams is highly appealing. the reality of it is that you have to run them and keep them afloat so i feel as though, if you are doing exactly that, multitasking successfully like a cooperation, why cant there be a few perks to your hard work?

Amazing man. Completely amazing

The big question about 777 is what is the source of their funds. I can see MCOs being used to circumvent FFP and further ensure that the current big clubs remain that way.

Great video as always 🫡👊🏿

Great video. Great insights.

It's clearly here to stay, however I don't think you should be able to own more than 1 club in the same federation, City Group own City so they shouldn't be able to own another club registered under Uefa.

really solid video man

Dang, Tinashe rocking our Austria jersey today =).

I think owning multiple clubs is acceptable if you own them on different continents. Otherwise big conflict of interest

Nice video bro! and btw u jinx Girona

I love your content bro ❤

As austrian im happy you are wearing the austrian shirt :D

Superb vid ! As a supporter of a definite feeder club, RBNY, I feel a lot of ambivalence about this kind of ownership structure. That said, my team are undoubtedly in a better place than they were before RB came: we use to affectionately lament the team as the most "mediocre club in first-world football". So it is not a case of having nothing to be thankful for with the present ownership. Again very thoroughly researched and nicely presented.

Brilliant upload 😊

i dont even watch football that much but i sitll watch all your videos. u have a very nice of stroytelling

How long before 2 people each own one half of every derby on the planet

Been happening for YEARS…but now City etc have got it to work, it’s a problem?

As a Sounders fan and season ticket member. I would push back on your example of the sounders as a success story for multi-sport. The Alan’s and Seahawks are no longer involved in the club and were always the clear 3rd string in the initial ownership group. The club is majority owned by Adrian Hanauer. Yes, the ability to tap into the Seahawks sales department in the initial years helped avoid the need to scale up operations right out the gate, but they did that pretty quickly anyway. The sounders were a unique case, having been a successful 2nd division side (owned by Hanauer) before joining MLS, and having existed in one form or another for 50 years despite many pro-leagues they competed in collapsing over that period. Combine that with being pretty much the most open and democratic sports team in the US (after greenbay), and some phenomenal marketing from Joe Roth and Drew Carey (the other owners) and you had a special combination. You saw a similar level of success with Portland, despite not being associated with another team, largely due to also being a legacy team in the lower division with a very long history by American sports standards.

Didn't expect to see my sounders in a football iconic video :D

One of your best videos

Fantastic video, even though it is purely satirical in nature. I think you are right in that MCOs have added one more layer of reminding us that sport is merely a business. And while of course that is true for professional sports it raises that awful spectre of them being manipulated and dishonest. We have become disillusioned with so much I think we want at least one escape from perfidious behaviour. But then again, will that stop us from watching? I despise FIFA, but I love watching the World Cup, and will continue to do so, unless the product becomes terrible. The same goes for the national leagues and club tournaments.

I am absolutely against the same person/entity having more than 1 club in a continent. I would accept them having clubs in different continents but even so, it is weird. Owning clubs in the same continent is cheating.

Can't believe you are wearing an Austria shirt while recording. From the german perspective this is like wearing an Red Sox Shirt, while talking about Liverpool. Or in your case, a glaser picture shirt..😂

quality video as always

I just love your vids

Clicked the thumbs up straight away - 777 Partners terrify me as an Evertonian.

A thorugh, informative and humerous deepdive into a problematic area in football. The money and resources required today mean there is an inevitability about it, but, and I'm not a supporter of it, what are clubs to do? They could go the route of Spurs and build a £1bn muliti event venue or proceed to buy or invest in smaller clubs to generate the relevant revenue required to seemingly compete...

13:12 My man said Formula one and showed a picture of an Ariel Atom😂😂😂

25:02 I thought you would mention Brighton and Union SG here because Tony bloom and to sell a chunk of his stake in Union after they qualified for a UEFA competition

It's still different from when I was a younger boy, I am 20. Or when my dad was a young boy. He played before getting injured at a very young age. He was nowhere near the top of the game but still could have made a career out of the sport. It's not necessarily the MGO's but it's all the "acting" as my dad says. While yes he was in a Romanian team's football youth system which is a lot different from every top league, he says that even back in the day they played with heart and grit and didn't flop on the floor rolling around looking for a foul every time they get touched. Wish that football came back because while the product is still acceptable for many people to watch, it's not the same. I vaguely remember when AC Milan was at the top of Europe with a young Zlatan, Alexander Pato, and in prime Nesta among many others, always making it far in the Champions League and it definitely seemed a lot more physical then than it does now. Hope it goes back to that someday though I do not think it will because the young-to-be footballers are watching a "theatrical game instead of a gritty play with your heart on the line game" as my dad and his father would say.

Great content

With all the money that pumped into the top clubs during the 90s and 00s, this kinda process feels like the only way to compete with the top clubs now. If they follow the way CFG and RB process, we see that they’re actually improving all their clubs, small clubs included. No club outside the top 3 has even challenged in laliga until Girona came along, isn’t it good to have extra competition? If we’re gonna allow teams like Real Madrid, Man Utd, Barca etc to hoard all their wealth then what other methods are there for smaller teams to challenge

I kinda digg it tho, to me MCO has helped in developing the sport from a broad perspective. Scouting has been strengthened massively which has benefited not only the clubs but players whose lives are transformed instantly.

7:00 Impressive, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's Paul Allen fund

28:20 I reckon Botafogo did see some extremes. even more extreme than Lyon currently.

I would think the "farm team" sort of system is ok, guys who are not ready to play on the big stage still get some experience on loan to develop. As for the potential to "hoard" players to prevent others from having them, potentially a salary cap or roster cap system might be needed.

ENIC are going to be expanding in the near future they ran a MCO model in the 90s but had to sell under the rules in the early 2000s which have now been loosened. They have had talks with FC nordjaeland in Denmark and with Djorgarden IF in Sweden recently I could see them looking into Belgium, Argentina, Australia, and Brazil in the near future as well. Or they could look at prior clubs they once held a stake in like Rangers, AEK Athens, Slavia Prague, or Basel. They hired Scott Munn from City Group last summer for this purpose.

Thanks!

Abou Lyon and Botafogo, the fact that Textor is ownew of both has casted doubt over the sales from some of the best Botafogo players do Lyon at a lower market fee

sounders till i die! didn’t expect a PNW shoutout this video. gonna be fiftentet without nico lodeiro pulling the strings in seattle

Correction, "why every top club that didnt think about the multi club ownership model before their rivals did, hates multi club ownership"......is much more accurate!

"Why are they holding an egg?" 🤣🤣🤣

I love these hyper informative football videos. Please never stop them