City Football Group, owner of Manchester City, was one of those consulted by Botafogo to buy the club a year ago. He informed that he was not interested in any project in Brazil.
This happened well before John Textor approached Rio de Janeiro and six months before the passing of the Football Societies (SAF) law in the National Congress.
Bahia admits to having been consulted by ten international groups interested in buying the club in the Northeast. City probed. Nothing serious, there was no proposal and Bahia will only think about taking the SAF to the deliberative council if there is an official document.
What changed between the lack of interest in Brazil and the survey of Bahia is called SAF. International businessmen strain their eyes, albeit timidly, with the possibility of changing the federal government, after the elections, and with the approval of the new legislation.
It is almost mandatory to pay attention to what will happen in Brazil. No one will disembark here abruptly. A lot of people, however, monitor a promising market – if they really move.
Today, there are three types of clubs in the Brazilian Serie A: 1. The giants that don’t even consider becoming companies, such as Flamengo, Atlético-MG, Palmeiras and Corinthians; 2. The desperate, like Vasco, thirsty to follow Botafogo and Cruzeiro; 3. Mediums, with recent good results, hopeful of continuing to grow without the new money.
In the last lane are Fortaleza and Ceará, the new center of football in the Northeast, ahead of Pernambuco and Bahia. São Paulo, Santos and Bahia observe, do not discard or rush.
There is a greater dispute over the creation of the club league. It’s not as close as it once seemed, nor so far away that it can’t happen. Until December, lawyer Flavio Zveiter, from Codajas Kapital, had a mandate to bring in an investor capable of contributing money and buying at least 20%.
The American company Advent was considered, it was informed and there was no agreement on the anticipation of revenue. Zveiter joined the BTG Pactual group and returned to the market.
On the other hand, LiveMode, which helped to boost the Copa do Nordeste, gets closer to the leaders of the region and has the sympathy of Athletico.
The third hypothesis includes XP Investimentos. The brokerage made the advice for Botafogo and Cruzeiro to advance in the sale of their SAFs and, now, defends the sale of a percentage of the Brazilian League to CVC and the Spanish League. Ronaldo Phenomenon would help to bridge the gap.
One of the twenty leaders of Serie A says that the proposal is crab in the can. Have you seen how the pet makes noise when it gets stuck, but never manages to escape and walk away?
The metaphor exposes distrust.
The three proposals may even fail, but they are very close for Brazilian football to go so far from modernity.
The advantage of what is being discussed is, for the first time, that it is an economic and not a political project. It always failed because the leaders were club presidents, more interested in the benefits for their own fans.
The downside is that managers still seem to be more concerned with passing the hat and counting the coins than with projecting how the creation of a league, led by executives, can make Brazilians improve and increase their value in the next ten to twenty years. .
Many people still do not understand that there can be transformation. John Textor gives an autograph, as the Corinthians fans asked Kia Joorabchian. If it were to look for a charismatic leader, it would be enough to go back to the times of Emil Pinheiro.
It has to be much more serious than that.
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