Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty ImagesThe new incarnation of Manchester City have won the League Cup three times in the past five seasons, a triumph now barely registered. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Manchester City fan holds a mocked-up banknote with Sheikh Mansour’s face on it after the club’s 2008 takeover. City, the hierarchy maintains, is a private investment by Mansour – they present the holding company City Football Group as the owner, not Abu Dhabi itself. Now the Etihad campus has its own Metrolink station taking supporters to the ground, so in modern football Manchester City have secured a transport stop named after the club’s sponsor. It did look like a private purchase then, even something of a whim by Mansour, who already owned a football club in Abu Dhabi.

Source: The Guardian May 05, 2018 10:52 UTC