Man City

City Football Group owns all or part of 11 clubs worldwide, controlling the contracts of more soccer players than anyone else. But to what end?

"You can see he has the talent to get to Manchester. "It may not be the best player, but the best value in the market. "The players who make it here, they want to go to Europe," he says. "We think he has the possibility to get to Manchester," Soriano says. "He had the ambition to run a club," de Vries says, "but Manchester was too big. "But the more passionate the supporters, the more history a club has, the more challenge you get," de Vries says. "We didn't," Soriano says, "so we had to go to the market and sell something different. To Berrada, that was the only way Manchester City could get to a point at which it could compete in the Premier League. "The value is in the system that puts it all together and makes it useful to everybody." "The value is in the data," he says. The magic is to do it in an industry that has never done it before." "The one thing I will always jump on is the wrong style of football," he says.