Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family has spent more than £1.3bn directly investing into Manchester City since he took over in 2008, the club’s latest accounts have stated.
That fortune has been in addition to the £150m Mansour is understood to have paid City’s then owner, Thaksin Shinawatra, to buy the club, taking the total spent by Mansour to more than £1.45bn.
During last year, in which the club registered a record £500.5m turnover and a profit of £10m as Pep Guardiola’s team swept to the Premier League title, Mansour nevertheless invested a further £58m in return for new shares.
Roman Abramovich is the only English football club owner whose expenditure comes close to that of Mansour’s; Chelsea’s accounts for 2016-17 put Abramovich’s total investment since 2003 at £1.17bn in loans. That level of billion-pound-plus investment by Mansour and Abramovich is by far more than any other owner has ever spent on an English club.
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