{"id":17847,"date":"2025-06-27T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17847\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:01:10","slug":"man-city-set-for-astonishing-34m-bounty-thanks-to-what-ferran-soriano-has-lobbied-for-in-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17847\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City set for astonishing \u00a334m bounty thanks to what Ferran Soriano has ‘lobbied’ for in private"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manchester City have reached the FIFA Club World Cup Round of 16 following their 5-2 win over Juventus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goals from Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Savinho and a Pierre Kalulu own goal for Pep Guardiola\u2019s<\/a> team ensured that City made it through the group with three wins from three.<\/p>\n

The former Premier League<\/a> champions are now set to receive a substantial financial boost for reaching the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

Once you see the full breakdown of their earnings from just the group stage, it becomes quite apparent as to why Man City CEO Ferran Soriano was so keen for the club to take part in the new tournament.<\/p>\n

\"MatheusPhoto by Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMan City earn \u00a39.5m for topping Group G at Club World Cup<\/p>\n

Head of Football Finance at TBR Football<\/strong>, Adam Williams<\/a>, has explained exactly how much Manchester City<\/a> stand to earn, which includes them securing around \u00a39.5m for topping Group G with three wins.<\/p>\n

Williams told TBR Football<\/strong>: \u201cWith the Club World Cup prize money pot, it\u2019s split almost 50-50 between sporting performance and participation. It\u2019s pretty simple to work out the sporting performance element. <\/p>\n

\u201cCity have won three group stage matches, which are worth $2m each, so that\u2019s $6m there.<\/p>\n\nTeam<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\nGD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMan City<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJuventus<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAl Ain<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n-10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWydad AC<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

FIFA Club World Cup Group G<\/p>\n

\u201cBy securing a place in the Round of 16, that\u2019s another $7.5m. So based on performance, they\u2019ve got $13.5m in the bank already.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t really scratch the surface in terms of how much they are going to take home from the Club World Cup all told.\u201d<\/p>\n

How Man City secured \u00a324m before a ball was even kicked<\/p>\n

Before the competition had even started, City had already secured around \u00a324m just from being entered to play at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n

FIFA distributed these payouts based on \u2018sporting and commercial criteria\u2019, and Williams predicts that City were second or third in their ranking system.<\/p>\n

\u201cFIFA have already paid out around $525m to clubs who are participating in the tournament before a ball was kicked. The distribution to specific clubs is determined by what FIFA describe as a \u2018ranking based on sporting and commercial criteria\u2019,\u201d added Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I\u2019m aware, FIFA haven\u2019t made the exact formula public. However, I think we can safely say that it is going to be a similar mechanism to the Champions League, where clubs are ranked based on the value of their country\u2019s domestic TV deal, their UEFA coefficient ranking, and a handful of other commercial factors. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnder UEFA\u2019s system, the bottom-placed team in the Champions League gets, says, \u00a31m, then it rises in increments of \u00a31m right to the top-ranked team, who gets about \u00a336m in the new format.<\/p>\n

\u201cFIFA have said that European clubs will get between $12.81m and $38.19m based on their ranking, and the difference between those two figures is about $25.38m. So that means it\u2019s going to rise in increments of about $2m for each of the 12 European clubs taking part.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Man City will be second or perhaps third in FIFA\u2019s ranking system, so that means they are guaranteed another $20m for the variable part, plus another $12.81m from the fixed part. All in all, that\u2019s nearly $33m before a ball was even kicked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Man City\u2019s total earnings from Club World Cup group stage<\/p>\n

In total, City have netted around \u00a334m from the group stage for winning all three matches and their involvement in the new tournament. <\/p>\n

Speaking about the total sum, Williams said: \u201cThen you add your performance-related prize money and you\u2019re at $46.5m. These are rough figures, but they won\u2019t be far out. There might be $2-3m margin for error. <\/p>\n

\u201cConvert those numbers to sterling and you have \u00a334m. It\u2019s easy to see why Chelsea and City lobbied so hard for this tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be a much-welcome amount, given Guardiola\u2019s team have already had a busy summer transfer window, with City signing Rayan Ait Nouri<\/a>, Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders.<\/p>\n

There will surely be further plans for the summer window, and the \u00a334m, plus the rest which they will earn from the remainder of the tournament, could aid these moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have reached the FIFA Club World Cup Round of 16 following their 5-2 win over Juventus.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2217,17145,216,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-17847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-club-world-cup","9":"tag-ferran-sorriano","10":"tag-manchester-city","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}