Ladies and gentlemen, raise the curtain and welcome Manchester City Football Club onto the world stage.
A takeover of the club by the slightly ironically named, but mega-rich Abu Dhabi United Group -- an investment vehicle for the royal family of the Emirate -- has catapulted City from a mid-sized mid-table English Premier League club to a force that could soon dominate European soccer.
Events moved quickly. Staggeringly so. After agreeing to the takeover in principle, City's new owners-in-waiting had only 30 hours to strengthen the squad before the European transfer window shut. A few weeks earlier, a $20 million bid for Roque Santa Cruz was the height of City's ambitions; now it suddenly had the financial clout to bid for any striker on the planet. Manager Mark Hughes, like a kid with a $50 bill in a candy store, wrote his list, and what a list: Mario Gomez, David Villa and Ruud van Nistelrooy all apparently featured.
A takeover of the club by the slightly ironically named, but mega-rich Abu Dhabi United Group -- an investment vehicle for the royal family of the Emirate -- has catapulted City from a mid-sized mid-table English Premier League club to a force that could soon dominate European soccer.
Events moved quickly. Staggeringly so. After agreeing to the takeover in principle, City's new owners-in-waiting had only 30 hours to strengthen the squad before the European transfer window shut. A few weeks earlier, a $20 million bid for Roque Santa Cruz was the height of City's ambitions; now it suddenly had the financial clout to bid for any striker on the planet. Manager Mark Hughes, like a kid with a $50 bill in a candy store, wrote his list, and what a list: Mario Gomez, David Villa and Ruud van Nistelrooy all apparently featured.
According to a top member of the group they want the club (Man City) to end the season as one of the top four clubs in the premiership,and they intend to make the big clubs in Europe feel the club's impact as they intend to buy the best football legs in the world, to play in the Champions' League.
A report by an English football site has it that this group is over 10 times richer than Roman Abrahamovic,the owner of Chelsea,wow.This will really give the Chelsea boss a run for his money.
The way it is now, money rules the world of football.
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