![]() Salzburg fielded the youngest team to start a Champions League match for nearly 20 years, while their opponents were managed by Julian Nagelsmann, a coach Bayern poached from Salzburg’s sister club RB Leipzig last year. In many ways, this week has been another spectacular advert for multi-club groups, as Manchester City pulverised Portuguese champions Sporting Lisbon 5-0 in Portugal on Tuesday, only for Red Bull Salzburg to get within a whisker of a famous Champions League victory over Bayern Munich on Wednesday. “We are even more bullish on the multi-club model - it’s why we priced the SPAC (special purpose acquisition corporation) at $86 million (£63 million),” the 52-year-old American tells The Athletic, referring to last week’s launch of Counter Press Acquisition Corporation, a listed company formed for the purpose of buying other businesses. In fact, he and his partners have just raised more than £60 million and intend to keep growing, with an eye on clubs in Germany, Poland and wherever else opportunities arise. They are doing it on a slightly more manageable budget - a hundred million euros here and there, as opposed to £1.17 billion and counting in CFG’s case.Ĭonway says no. ![]() The Manchester-headquartered City Football Group (CFG) is probably the most famous and, in terms of silverware, successful example of the multi-club model, while Austrian-based energy drink Red Bull’s herd of clubs is the connoisseur’s choice. There are examples of these groups popping up everywhere. ![]() Thun are mid-table in the Swiss second division and Den Bosch and Esbjerg are flirting with relegation to the third tiers of their pyramids. Barnsley are bottom of England’s second tier, as are Nancy in France. In fact, some fans think the whole group has gone from one definition of humming to another over the last 12 months.Ĭonway and his fellow investors own stakes in six clubs in six countries: Barnsley, Den Bosch in the Netherlands, Denmark’s Esbjerg, Belgian side KV Oostende, AS Nancy in France and Swiss team FC Thun. That, however, is mild compared to elsewhere in the Pacific Media Group (PMG) of clubs, of which Barnsley is just one. They beat Queens Park Rangers last weekend but it was their first league win since the start of November and only their third of the season.Īll of this explains why you can find a “Conway Out” group on social media and club fanzine EyUP & Down has published a Barnsley “rage-o-meter” which ranges from “You’re contemplating ragging a telly off t’wall in t’boozer toneet for a 3-year ban” to “Crisis? What crisis?” No, they are humming in the only way a team bottom of the table - below even Derby County, who are in administration and have been docked 21 points - can. Barnsley are humming again this season, but not in the same way.
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