investment group Mercury13.<\/a><\/p>\n“It’s just purely speculation. Since Steve’s [Lansdown, owner] been open about looking for investment we’ve had a lot of speculation around different interested parties,” Gavin Marshall told BBC Radio Bristol.<\/p>\n
In May, Lansdown said the men’s club were “not close” to a takeover or potential new investment having first declaration his intention to sell some, or all, of the club in 2021.<\/p>\n
Any sale is complicated by the fact the club – as the women’s side previously did – sits under the Bristol Sport umbrella, which also comprises Bristol Bears’ men’s and women’s rugby teams and the Bristol Flyers basketball outfit. <\/p>\n
Work on a new ‘Sporting Quarter’ near Ashton Gate Stadium is also set to begin later this year.<\/p>\n
Marshall, however, said the sale was only about the women’s WSL 2 side.<\/p>\n
“This deal is about Bristol City Women, Steve’s been open around looking for investment who can take the club forward hence this deal with Mercury13,” Marshall added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of a Bristol City takeover by Saudi Arabian investors are “purely speculation”, says Bristol Sport Group CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115226282798554753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}