Which is the richest football club on the planet right now?!

It's not Real Madrid, who have just set a football transfer record and are waving money, it's not Chelsea, it's not Barcelona...... The name of this club is Manchester City!

In August 2008, Manchester City was acquired by the Abu Dhabi consortium, a multinational investment group based on the royal family of Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, with total assets of up to 580 billion euros. Mansour, the head of the Abu Dhabi consortium, is not yet 44 years old this year, and is the UAE's deputy prime minister and minister of presidential affairs, as well as the younger brother of UAE Sheikh Al Nahyan. Under Mansour's umbrella, it owns the aircraft carrier-level assets of First Gulf Bank and International Petroleum Investment Corporation.

Robinho was Mansour's first prey, having moved from Real Madrid to Manchester City for €43 million last summer, breaking the previous record of €41 million set by Shepchenko when he joined Chelsea from AC Milan. Of course, it is not easy to poach people from Real Madrid, not to mention that Robinho is still a player favored by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, snatching food from the mouth of the 'predator', showing Mansour's arrogance.

It wasn't until a year later, this summer, that Cristiano Ronaldo's €94 million transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid broke Robinho's Premier League transfer fee record.

In the summer of 2008, Mansour spent a total of 157 million euros on 10 new players, but at the end of the 2008/2009 season, City finished 10th in the Premier League. Robinho, the 'cycling boy', is obviously not the true son of Manchester City, and this is already the consensus of the entire English football world.

At the beginning of the summer transfer window, Manchester City 'spent' close to 30 million euros to acquire Tevez and 20 million euros to acquire Arsenal star Colo Toure. Let everyone see their determination to continue to stir up trouble this summer.

However, those giants who are annoyed by Manchester City's money-throwing behavior are not clear about Manchester City's current depression!

It's depressing to have no money, but what about money? Look at Manchester City, as the richest club in world football today, you can deeply understand this - in the winter of half a year ago, they once offered hundreds of millions of euros in transfer fees but were fooled by Kaka and Milan, waving cheques everywhere but frequently rejected, and repeatedly laughed at and ignored by everyone......

In fact, the failure to buy a Kaka is not City's only Waterloo.

It is reported that Manchester City had also sent invitations to a number of popular stars, including Buffon, before asking for Kaka, but the results disappointed Manchester City.

In December, Manchester City had been looking to sign Villa and David Silva for £100 million, but Valencia FC was asking for £135 million. Manchester City are not stupid, they want to be a good deal, but it is clear that neither Villa nor Silva are superstars, they do not want to be used as a champion by Valencia, and this 'deal' has failed.

In addition to Villa, Manchester City CEO Cook also said that they had been to Turin to discuss the acquisition of Buffon with Juventus Club, but Juventus hoped that Manchester City's purchase price would be at least close to 100 million pounds.

Thierry Henry has also come into the spotlight for Manchester City, who are willing to pay £25 million to bring the former Arsenal captain back to the Premier League, but Henry refuses, wanting to stay at Barcelona in pursuit of the Champions League title. In addition, Manchester City's £24 million bid to get Barcelona striker Yaya Toure last winter was also rejected.

Drogba, Sergio Aguero, Diego...... These popular stars have had scandals with Manchester City, but all of them are like dry thunder and no rain.

Manchester City have deep pockets and a thirst for talent, and as a result, almost all clubs will price a horrific price when confronted with their bids, making it extremely difficult to even buy some second-rate stars.

Mark Hughes has been a favourite of Blackburn Rovers striker Santa Cruz, but Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce said: "If Manchester City come up with £40 million, they might consider selling. "What is the concept of 40 million pounds? At the normal price, you can probably buy four Santa Cruz.

Manchester City signed Bridges (£12 million), Bellamy (£14 million) and Frenkie de Jong (£16 million) in January, and in the eyes of many media outlets, all three are first-class in value, second-rate and raise questions about the future of the team.

Bridge was an iron-clad substitute at Chelsea, but after moving to Manchester City, he earned £5.2 million a year, making him the highest-paid full-back in the world. Bellamy, despite his experience, is a well-known 'bad boy'. As for Frenkie de Jong, City have paid £16 million to bring him in – but if he waits until the end of the season, his contract will be worth only £2.3 million. Hamburg was overjoyed with the huge sum, while Manchester City won the name of a fool and a lot of money.

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It is clear that Manchester City are keen to emulate Chelsea and build a big club with money in a very short period of time. But Chelsea had the 'madman' Mourinho, while Manchester City only had a 'rookie' Mark Hughes.

Jose Mourinho already had a proud record of leading the 'Porto' team to Champions League glory before he arrived at Chelsea, but what does Mark Hughes have? Coaching the Welsh national team and Blackburn Rovers may prove that he has the potential to be a good manager, but it is difficult to convince the public to stay away from the trophy, let alone attract big names to come and join him. When Mourinho joined Chelsea, he at least brought Carvalho and Ferreira, who were descendants of 'Porto', to the account. And what about Mark Hughes, who didn't even give face to the old general Bellamy, and almost defected to Tottenham, which shows Hughes's status in the minds of his disciples.

Mark Hughes can't even hold back the current Manchester City. Hughes has not had a good relationship with some of his players, and in recent weeks has even had a 'hot' verbal altercation with Brazilian players Elano and Joa. Top star Robinho also left training camp in anger because of his dissatisfaction with Hughes's backlash and returned to Brazil for a birthday party. Even the locker room, which is not full of big names, can't dominate, Hughes can really rest!

The Manchester City boss is swinging a cheque in a way that is similar to what Abou did back then, but it has already struck the public with the outrage of the global financial crisis. When Manchester United and Arsenal joined forces to criticize Chelsea, there might have been a suspicion that 'you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour', but now, no one thinks that way anymore.

Manchester City's violation of the current world football economy is very easy to cause the market 'chaos' and 'chaos', disrupting the normal market order, when they invited Kaka, the sky-high annual salary of 19 million euros for Kaka almost triggered the player's comparison effect, driving the rise of the average salary of various giants, and destroying the overall stability of football.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was relentless in his criticism of Manchester City's behavior, "There is no limit to Manchester City's wealth, but it does not belong to the real world. Taylor, president of the Premier League Players' Union, said: "'Spending so much money' to chase a player would cause huge problems for the entire football world. ”

Even Bayern Munich couldn't stand it, with Hoeness criticising Manchester City's sky-high price to buy the star as 'tarnishing the sport's image at a time when many clubs and fans are in debt. ’

It is impossible for Manchester City to be unaware of these criticisms and criticisms, but they are not going to pay attention to them at all and continue to work the promising cause of disrupting the football market.

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Mark. Hughes now feels that sitting in the Manchester City manager's position is not an enviable affair. Since the stadium was acquired by the Arabs last summer and suddenly became a super tycoon, Mark Hughes has also gone from extreme excitement at the beginning, to loss, and then to hesitation and confusion now. Because he's seen first-hand how those stars simply rejected City.

Manchester City are not the Chelsea they used to be, and they are unattractive to most players. There are some things that you can't do with money alone. Chelsea were so attractive at the beginning, and Abramovich's money was just one reason. The most important reason is that after the foreshadowing of Hoddle, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri, Chelsea was already an emerging force outside the traditional top three of the Premier League at that time, and the league ranking was among the top four for a long time, and it won the FA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup. In this case, with the injection of capital, they can immediately transform.

Manchester City is different, although the history of Manchester is longer than Manchester United, but the results are really miserable. The most glorious results are not four FA Cup titles and one Cup Winners' Cup, and they are all too long ago. It's really not attractive to the players right now. More often than not, they are just a traditional mid-table team in the Premier League.

How many world-class players would deign to come to a team that may not even be able to play in the UEFA Cup next season because of that little money?

Objectively speaking, for Manchester City, a wealthy local tyrant team, there is nothing wrong with having a coach of the level of Mark Hughes, because, in the creation stage of the team, Mark Hughes should be qualified, and according to Hughes's thinking, Manchester City is not hoarding those second-rate stars at this stage, but really working hard, with a few seasons, strive to be able to enter the top six in the Premier League, if you can win one or two cup championships, it would be great, so that you can gradually change the impression that Manchester City is a middle and lower team, and then it is the real introduction of superstars, and then HoweThe road to the 'door'......

It's a pity that Mark Hughes has obviously realized that the Arab owners of the team don't have so much patience, and more importantly, they are very rich, super rich, and have endless money to spend. In their eyes, Manchester City, with money, can instantly turn a crow into a phoenix, and overnight become the world's No. 1 team that world-class stars are eager to see, and then dominate football and build a super empire.

Obviously, how ridiculous this is to think.

There is such a super rich, ambitious club owner who knows nothing about football...... Mark Hughes has always been terrified, he is very worried about his fate, and even as a manager, he does not have much confidence in the future of Manchester City, and the results are not good, the boss is naturally dissatisfied, let alone reflect on what has gone wrong with his strategy. The most common and easiest thing to do is usually to change coaches. So the poor head coach became the scapegoat. Not only did he lose his job, but he also had an indelible stain on his coaching career.

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So, Mark Hughes has become a little numb to the team's brandishing cheque book in the transfer market, and of course, he is still happy that a star is coming, although he, as a manager, really hasn't found a way to make these first-class second-rate or even third-rate stars who are maliciously inflated play their combat effectiveness. He could only hope that he would be able to rely on these new money mercenaries to make a satisfactory result...... He is reluctant, although he has been apprehensive now, but Mark Hughes is really reluctant to leave the position of Manchester City manager, he is still thinking that if he is lucky, Manchester City will really play a future under him?

At this point, although he was accustomed to the big-hearted rhetoric and high-profile slogans of the team owner, this time, Mark Hughes was shocked again.

Former Manchester City star Dennis Stuart, who was in charge of the transfer, and the club's chief executive, Tim Cook, approached Mark Hughes to tell him the good news.

"Mark. There is good news. "You'll soon have a striker who can score goals. ”

Mark Hughes was stunned for a moment and said, "Is the Santa Cruz transfer progressing?"

"Santa Cruz?" Dennis Stuart shook his head, "Of course not. ”

"Or is Arsenal relieved of Adebayor's transfer?"

"Oh oh, Mr. Hughes, you forget Jì Santa Cruz, and forget Jì what Adebayo. "We've made a formal offer to Manchester United. ”

"Offer Manchester United?" Mark Hughes was taken aback, and then thought of a name, "It can't be Yang Fan......

"That's right, it's him. "Well, is this a super surprise?" ”

He thought that Mark Hughes would be happy, but he didn't expect Mr. Coach's appearance to be calm.

"Surprise!" Mark Hughes said in his heart, after Kaka's transfer 'fat' soap opera last winter, he has become numb and disbelieving the team's commitment to bringing in superstars, Kaka is reluctant to come to Manchester City, Yang Fan, a superstar whose influence is still above Kaka, will come to Manchester City? Wake up, don't dream.

"I think it's more realistic for us to focus on Santa Cruz or Adebayo...... Markhughes said weakly.

"Hey, hey, sir, head coach, I've already said, forget those two people, we have Yang Fan now......"

"I just know that he is now a Manchester United person, or maybe a Real Madrid person, a Chelsea person, but, it can't be a Manchester City person!" Mark Hughes suddenly broke out, "Hell! Let's be realistic, I want Santa Cruz! Damn, not that ethereal Chinese!"

Mark walked away in a huff.

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Both Dennis Stuart and Cook were stunned, they didn't expect Mark Hughes, who had always been submissive, to suddenly explode......

"Mr. Cook, don't take it to heart. Dennis Stuart said in the round, "You know, he's under a lot of pressure right now, so ......"

"Hmph...... Cook's face was very bad, and he snorted coldly, "Maybe the most important thing we should bring in now is not the player ......"

Dennis Stuart shrugged. This topic, he did not want to get involved.

"Let's talk about the introduction of Yang Fan. He changed the subject, "Does Mr. Mansour have any instructions for the transfer of Yang Fan?"

"At any cost. Cook said with a stern face.

Dennis Stuart gasped as he realized that the Arabs had come for real, more serious and crazy than the time they had been asking for Kaka in the winter.

"As long as Yang Fan is willing to come to Manchester United, what he wants, we will give!" Cook gritted his teeth and said.

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At this time, at Chelsea's Cobham training base, Chelsea's new head coach Carlo Ancelotti was cordially summoned by the club's owner, Roman Abramovich.

Although the training camp for the new season has not yet begun, Abramovich is still very satisfied with Ancelotti as an Italian coach, and through these two contacts, he has already learned about Ancelotti's 'sex' personality.

does not require absolute control of the club, nor can it be 'meddling' in the transfer of 'operation', is a top coach, a champion coach, a master tactician, and a soft hand to win the championship, Ancelotti's qualifications and style are really Abramovich's favorite coach!

"Carllow. Your job is 'great' and I'm very satisfied. "As a thank you for your hard work, I decided to give you a gift." ”

"Thank you, Mr. President. Ancelotti said.

"I gave Scolari this gift when he took office last year, but he turned it down. Abu suddenly laughed, "I don't think you should refuse." ”

"Uh-no. "Carlo Ancelotti was a little dizzy and didn't know what kind of mystery game the big boss was playing.

"Yang Fan! this is my gift to you. ”

"Ahh

"The club has already made an offer to Manchester United, 88 million euros, the same as the Madridians. Abramovich said.

Ancelotti realized that Abramovich was not joking, his mind was a little 'messy', this was the gift that Scolari had refused? God! He didn't know if Scolari regretted it now, but Ancelotti was really happy at the moment...... I was overjoyed.

To be honest, he has long coveted Yang Fan, but Ancelotti really didn't think that he could coach Yang Fan, the boss Abramovich is tightening the money, he knows it, so he doesn't dare to think that Chelsea will participate in Yang Fan's competition, so he didn't even mention the request to buy Yang Fan with a tentative 'sex', but he didn't expect that the boss suddenly sent him such a super surprise gift.

"Of course, we need to beat other competitors to get the Chinese. Abramovich said that despite that said, the Russian tycoon's tone was tough, and he did not think Chelsea would lose to other rivals.

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At the Carrington training base, Manchester United's top brass are also discussing the four offers from Inter Milan, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester City.

For a while, they couldn't make a choice. Of course, according to the meaning of the Americans, they must have fancied the highest offer, but this also involves the wishes of the player himself, and in everyone's opinion, Yang Fan is unlikely to accept Manchester City's invitation.

So, the focus of the discussion is again on the offer slips from Chelsea and Real Madrid and Inter Milan.

"I have a building yì. Manchester United CEO Gil said, "I think it is necessary for us to communicate with Yang Fan and talk to him about the club's decision. ”

It didn't seem right for him to suddenly realise that they had been researching offers here and hadn't communicated with the player himself. After all, Yang Fan is the hero of Manchester United's quadruple championship, even if the two sides want to break up, they must break up peacefully, there is no need to be too stiff. At this time, it is necessary to be honest and inform the players of the team's decision in a timely manner.

Several other people hesitated, and after a while, they finally nodded in agreement, contacted Yang Fan, and told him of the club's decision.

In this way, Yang Fan, who was still on vacation in Greece, was dining with his agent Baker, and the agent received a call from the club......