The City Football Group is the majority shareholder of Girona, because it owns 47% of the shares. But Ferran Soriano, its visible boss, is not alone: he is joined by Marcelo Claure (35%) and Pere Guardiola (16%). The three parts are fundamental to understanding the change that the white-and-red entity has experienced, which has gone from cursing itself to solve its debts to checking how it fills its stadium in a category, First Division, to which I hadn’t even dreamed it would come. The one who first started his adventure in Montilivi was Pere Guardiola, intermediary in the 2015 sale of the club to TVSE Futbol, an operation in which he was linked to Jean-Louis Dutaret and Samir Boudjemaa, ex-directors of Canal+ France. With the first ascent to the elite, everything was revealed: in August 2017, the entry of Girona into the City Football Group was made official, which at first shared the direct role with Pere Guardiola, remaining a 44 .3% of shares each (the remaining 11.4% remained in the hands of small shareholders). This operation sent Girona directly to an unknown dimension. Not only in terms of the sporting aspect, because he was able to enrich his squads with transfers of young talents that would have been impossible to access with his own resources, but because being part of the structure means entering a world in that everything is possible: all the teams in the group share lists of footballers, methodologies, medical teams, etc. After several capital increases, in 2020 the third leg of the equation arrived: businessman Marcelo Claure, who bought a large part of a very tasty cake.
