New York City is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manchester City.
Let me say that again: if you think that New York City is a team in its own right, able to make decisions utterly independent of CFG that benefit only itself, and not CFG or Manchester City, then you're just kidding yourself.
This isn't news. This is the kind of statement that you'd think is self-evident and anodyne, based on all of the evidence that we've seen, both on the field and off the field. Whether or not it's a good thing is open to debate, but it is a thing that is real.