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Will Girona's dream season spoil the plans for Manchester City or will their gallop towards a historic championship in the Spanish league receive a fatal blow due to the ownership of the team?
With this question, the "City Football" team stands at the center of the 2023/24 season, when its two top teams, Manchester City and Girona, are strongly in the championship race in the English Premier League and the Spanish League.
While the small team from Spain is in first place with 55 points, a point more than Real Madrid, who have a game to spare, the Trabalista is 5 points away from the leader Liverpool, with the English champion having a game to spare.
In a hypothetical situation, the "City Football" group will be forced to make difficult decisions regarding the identity of the champions in the top European leagues, as a result of the UEFA rules regarding participation in the Champions League under the same ownership, when 2 teams with the same owners will not be able to send both representatives to the top European enterprise. The current situation is that, if Girona wins the Spanish championship, it will qualify for the Champions League, while Manchester City will be forced to go down to the Europa League.
Will Girona's incredible season be hit or miss at Manchester City?
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If both teams win the championship, the team that will receive priority for qualifying for the Champions League will be Manchester City, this is due to its much higher ranking in the ranking of European clubs.
In "ESPN" they analyzed the situation of the two teams, in which an unsportsmanlike situation may be required from Girona in which they will be forced to lose the championship on purpose in order for City to qualify for the Champions League, as mentioned a factory in which both of them will not be able to play together in the first place.
There was a similar case in the past with the owners of the "Red Bull" team, which is at the head of many sports bodies, including motor sports, extreme sports and also football with the Austrian Red Bull Salzburg and R.B.
German Leipzig.
The two have shared the participation in the Champions League in recent years without a problem, this is because they were able to prove that for one "Red Bull" is considered only as a sponsor, while for the other it is a real ownership of the team.
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