Manchester City owners pull U-turn as £292m blow prompts two major sales
Manchester City’s owners are Abu Dhabi royalty and their near-two decade odyssey in football reflects the ambitions, scale and resources that only a nation state…

Since the takeover by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan through the Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008, Manchester City have been in an era of huge success and won their first Premier League title in 2012. Manchester City won the Premier League in 2018, becoming the only team ever to reach 100 points in a single season. In 2018–19, they won four trophies, completing an unprecedented sweep of all titles in England and becoming the first English men’s team to win the domestic treble.
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