Back in 2008 when Manchester City had just become the richest football club in the world, their owners in Abu Dhabi found themselves on the front and back of a tabloid newspaper on the same day.
‘On the front page they were being laughed at for some banking issue and on the back page they were being laughed at for claiming they were going to buy every famous footballer on the planet,’ reveals a source heavily involved at the time.
‘They had only owned the club for a matter of days and it had to stop.