The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince is reported to be interested in a £3billion takeover of the Old Trafford club. And should the 34-year-old Crown Prince arrive in Manchester it wouldn’t make him the first oil-rich Middle Eastern billionaire to take over a club in the city. Football fans can book Premier League Tickets on our website on exclusively discounted prices.
Sheikh Mansour did the same ten years ago and since he arrived in 2008, Man City have won four Premier League Football titles, four League Cups and two FA Cups in the very successful period in their history. We take a look through their lifestyle, wealth and controversies.
Wealth
Bin Salman has an estimated personal wealth of between £1billion and £7bn – although he has almost the full riches of Saudi Arabia at his fingertips (more below). Sheikh Mansour’s personal wealth is around £17billion.
Politics and business
Bin Salman is the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the son of the King and the leader of the Gulf state as King Salman is unable to fully rule because of dementia. Bin Salman is also the deputy prime minister and defense minister and has attempted to present himself as a moderate reformer.
Sheikh Mansour is the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and Minister of the Presidential Affairs. Sheikh Mansour heads the International Petroleum Investment Company, which has stakes in a number of businesses around the world.
The Man City owner has a 32 per cent stake in Virgin Galactic – investing more than £200m in the company in 2009. Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation also established Sky News Arabia and English-language newspaper The National.
Family
Mohammed Bin Salman is part of the House of Saud, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia since 1744.The family has some 15,000 people, although the majority of the power and the wealth sits with around 2,000 of them. The Al Saud family has a reported combined wealth of £1.3TRILLION – with many political commentators stating that amount is a huge under-estimate. Bin Salman married to Sarah bint Mashhour – known as the ‘Barbie Princess’ – in 2008, the couple have four children.
Sheikh Mansour is the half-brother of the current president of the UAE and a member of the ruling Al Nahyan family. The oil-rich family have an estimated combined wealth of at least £150billion and have driven the building of holiday hotspot Dubai. Sheikh Mansour has two wives and six children. He married with Sheikha Alia bint Mohammed bin Buti Al Hamed in the mid-1990s.
Sports
Sheikh Mansour is a much more lover of sports. As well as his love of Recipe One and Football, Sheikh is also the chairman of the Emirates Horse Racing Authority and the patron of a local half-marathon. He hasn’t just invested more than £1billion into Manchester City either, the City Football Group owns and part owns a host of clubs around the world.
They brought New York City FC to one of the Major League Soccer in the US and own Melbourne City in the Australia. The company also has stakes in Yokohama F. Marino’s in the Japan, Club Atletico Torque in Uruguay and Girona in Spain.
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