Man City fans react as Club Owners Make R$1 Billion Offer to Purchase Brazilian Club

Manchester City fans have been reacting to a post on Twitter which relays a report that claims the City Football Group has submitted an offer for the purchase of Atlético Mineiro.

Widely known as the CFG, the football group currently owns significant stakes in football clubs in all of England, Spain, France, Japan, the USA, Uruguay, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, India, and China.

There have been many stories about Manchester City’s owners wanting to buy a club in Brazil, and just like they’ve done in other countries.

According to a new report from Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte, a meeting between representatives of Atlético-MG and the CEO of City Football Group Ferran Soriano took place two weeks ago.

The report states that City’s owners are looking to buy the Belo Horizonte giants for a fee around R$1bn (£150m).

However, it is stated that the offer was not enough for a successful negotiation as Galo’s board consider it to be too low, currently working with a valuation of R$2bn (£300m).

The report was shared on Twitter and it attracted plenty of attention from the club’s supporters.

“Wow. That would be huge.”
Credit: @THEjoevols

“Let’s goooo.”
Credit: @GoodKidManCity

“Massive”
Credit: @alexquintani11a

“Buy them and call them Atletico Mineiro City.”
Credit: @xlucassoh_

“Atletico mineiro, no, please flamengo is much bigger.”
Credit: ‏ؘ@traezyoung

“We gonna make Mineiro bigger”
Credit: @karimmcfc

“Honestly believe South America has a huge base of talent. But top talent is currently coming from Europe as well. We need a bigger footprint out there.”
Credit: @daily_mzansi