Kieran Maguire makes ‘dangerous’ Man City claim after stinging Uefa update
Football faces a ‘dangerous’ future if multi-club networks like seen at Man City are backed by Uefa.
That is the opinion of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who spoke exclusively to Football Insider about Uefa’s confusing stance on multi-club ownership models.
In the European Club Footballing Landscape report published by Uefa in February, the sporting organisation highlighted the dangers of multi-club ownership models.
“The rise of multi-club investment has the potential to pose a material threat to the integrity of European club competitions,” said Uefa.
However, Uefa president Aleksandar Ceferin suggested this month that the organisation should potentially re-think their stance on muti-club networks.
“There is more and more interest for this multi-club ownership and we shouldn’t just say no [to] the investments, and for multi-club ownership,” Ceferin told The Overlap.
Maguire believes multi-club networks pose a danger to the integrity of football.
“Using Gary Neville’s ‘The Overlap’ series as a vehicle to announce change would be strange,” Maguire told Football Insider’s Sean Fisher.
“Perhaps to a certain extent, Ceferin was riffing and not speaking for Uefa.
“If that is to be a change in policy then football faces a dangerous future where it could be dominated in 10 years by three or four organisations.
“Organisations such as the City Football Group with Man City could control dozens of clubs around the globe.
“I don’t think it’d be good for the competitive balance of football, and it would call into question the integrity of the sport too.“
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