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What is known about the Abu Dhabi United Group, the new owners of Manchester City Football Club?
Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment (ADUG) is the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi
royal family. ADUG is expected to be represented on the new board by Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim (pictured
below), the chief executive [.
Sheikh Mohammed will step up his bid to buy Liverpool by using his own money to invest in the
club.
The oil-rich Arab leader of Dubai has ditched DIC - the investment arm of his government - as the
buy-out company he will use if he gets the chance to purchase the Anfield club from Americans Tom
Hicks and George Gillett.
It isn't just Manchester City fans who are in a total state of shock relating to the amazing events
over at Eastlands (or should that be Middle Eastlands?). Chelsea, and in particular Peter Kenyon
will be totally gutted after losing out in the battle to sign Robinho, few saw that particular deal
coming on what turned out to be a truly remarkable final day of the summer transfer window.
Manchester City officials have confirmed that a Middle East company is in the process of taking
over the club from Thai owner Thaksin Shinawatra. A memorandum of understanding (i.e. a statement
of intent) has been signed between between the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) and Manchester City
Football Club Limited.
It's been happening quietly, since for some reason the press don't seem all that eager to visit the
possibility that their original version of the story was full of exaggerations and mistakes, but
some of the grandiose claims about the purchase of Manchester City by the Abu Dhabi United Group
are finally starting to go [.
Imagine an all-star team of footballers featuring the top names in the sport. Cristiano Ronaldo,
Kaka, Cesc Fabregas, Fernando Torres, Thierry Henry, Robinho and David Villa. Now imagine all of
these players on the same team, Manchester City. Before yesterday, that notion sounded ridiculous,
but now that the Abu Dhabi United Group is in charge of [.
On the last day of the transfer deadline, Manchester City and their prospective new owners from the
Abu Dhabi royal family shocked the football world by paying a British record transfer fee for
temperamental Brazilian striker Robinho from football heavyweights Real Madrid. Many scratched
their heads on why Robinho would .
What is the lot of a football club owner in the English Premier League in this day and age? Well,
if you are Abu Dhabi United or Roman Abramovich, then you are in it for the fun and kudos of owning
a football club. Neither of these two owners are in the game to try [...]
Seems to me that the Middle East is the future of football. Man City's new Abu Dhabi based owners
now making some very sensible noises - less about buying C-Ron and more about faith in Mark Hughes
and long term investment in the youth academy - which is good news for everyone concerned
(including Man [.
It's the final day of the transfer window and we'll be bringing you all the juicy stuff that
happens as the deadline approaches at midnight. - Daryl here keeping an eye on things, Chris will
be along later... • And here's the biggest deal of the day: someone has bought a whole club!
Abu Dhabi United Group [.
Manchester City has placed bids to capture the signings of David Villa and Mario Gomez before the
August transfer window deadline ends in less than six hours at midnight UK time. "We have bids
in for three players," said Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim, head of the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG).
"There is Berbatov, but there [.
Marca, the daily Spanish sports newspaper, is reporting that Real Madrid has accepted a £32.5
million bid for Robinho. The audacious bid by new Man City owners Abu Dhabi United Group was made
at the last minute, and now we await whether Chelsea is willing to match or exceed the bid with
less than 90 [.
I know there is a big football story when Sky dispatches the satellite truck up from Milton Keynes
and I get on Sky News rather than Sky Sports News. I am, of course, talking about the takeover of
Manchester City by an Arab billionaire who is said to be so wealthy that his wealth can be seen
from outer space.
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Michael Ballack's kickers at right.
The Sun Phil to land 12million Deco
Sky Sports Ben Sahar set to join Portsmouth on loan?
The Daily Mail Former Chelsea executive suing club for a cool 1million
The Times Ballack eager to committ future to the Chels
This Day Obi-Wan Mikel wouldn't recognize Uncle Phil is he walked passed him
Al Bawaba SWP holds footballing clinic for kids in Abu Dhabi
The Daily Mail Siddy holding up move to Aston Villa, seeking 2million settlement
The Times Low reveals extent of Ballack's influence
Although Mark Hughes has stated that he has to be the one who decided which players are brought in
at Eastlands, that hasn't stopped members of the Abu Dhabi United group revealing some of the
world-class talents that they would like to see wearing a Manchester City shirt. This includes ...
Mark. Garry. We sold the club. Finally that Thai cunt is gone. The only thing worse than a Thai
cunt is an Arab cunt. Who'd you pawn us off to Garry? Mark, you're on a conference call with Dr
Suleiman Al Fahim, a representative of our new majority owners, Abu Dhabi United Group. He wants to
ask you a [.
Though I'm sure the Man City takeover has been brewing for some time, for the general public it all
happened in a flash yesterday. All of a sudden Man City were (all but) owned by the Abu Dhabi
United Group for Investment and Development and had insane amounts of money to spend. They livened
up transfer [.
$250 000 000 seized from Mexican Meth Dealers, Sept 2. 2007 Courtesy I-Am-Bored.com To put this
into some sort of perspective, Abu Dhabi United Group is pricing Cristiano Ronaldo at the same
dollar amount as the Arab League invested in the Darfur region last Fall.
Dr. Sulaiman Al-Fahim and Abu Dhabi United Group, the new owners of Manchester City and the people
responsible for signing Robinho for a record breaking £32.5million, might be in over their
heads. Claiming they will place a bid for Cristiano Ronaldo in January Al-Fahim told Arabian
Business magazine that Manchester City will be the biggest club [.
LIVERPOOL could still end up in the hands of Dubai – despite Dubai International Capital's
insistence that it is no longer pursuing a deal to buy the club.
DIC – the investment arm of the Dubai government – put out an official statement
yesterday denying it is ready to launch a fresh bid for the Reds or a new one for Newcastle United.
Super-rich Manchester City feel 'invincible' as £200m Abu Dhabi takeover is completed
The much-heralded new era at Manchester City will formally begin when Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al
Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates minister of presidential affairs and leader of the Abu Dhabi
United Group, completes his £200 million takeover.
Since a certain Abu Dhabi-based sports investment group took over Manchester City, loads of
rumours, reports and quotes have been spinning around. The Eastlands club have been linked with
big-money moves for world-class players such as Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United, Cesc
Fabregas of Arsenal and David Villa of Valencia.
The new Manchester City owners actions yesterday, are what Newcastle were really hoping would
happen when Mike Ashley took over last summer. Mike Ashley - not what Newcastle fans had hoped for
The Abu Dhabi United Group for Investment and Development [Adug], took over the club from former
Thailand Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, and they immediately signed [.
To be a city fan... all together now. "It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a
Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty," Noel Gallagher said today, in response to
news they had been bought by Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment. Nothing like a
bit of stereotyping eh?
Steady on there, old chap! While Manchester City might have oodles of cash at their disposal, Mark
Hughes has a long road ahead of him to start bringing silverware to Eastlands. It won't be until
next season that the Abu Dhabi consortium can have a squad assembled to their liking, ...
Manchester City managing director Garry Cook has warned the Premier League that the Blues' new
owners are thinking 'large scale' - and that could include a bid for Manchester United star
Cristiano Ronaldo. Provided their new owners from Abu Dhabi back up their statements with hard
cash, there appears little to prevent City muscling into England's [.
South Korea restarts its journey on the road to South Africa and the 2010 World Cup tonight in
Shanghai. Pyongyang was supposed to be the location but the qualifier against North Korea has been
moved to China as the communist authorities in the DPRK capital refused to fly the Taegukki or play
the Aegukga.
I think we've established in the past week that the Abu Dhabi United Group are pretty pretty
ambitious when it comes to their investment in Manchester City. They may have splashed out
£32.5 million on Robinho, yet there are undoubtedly more signings to follow, but will they
really manage to ...
Liverpool and West Ham are braced for takeover bids this month from DIC after the Dubai consortium
appointed hot-shot British businessman Robin Binks to clinch a deal.
Dubai Investment Capital, the private equity fund of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum are
determined to own a Premier League club - particularly after the £200million takeover of
Manchester City by Abu Dhabi United Group.
The Arabian Business website has announced that Manchester City have been taken over by the Abu
Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment. It says that the deal with current owner Thaksin
Shinawatra, himself only in post for just over a year, was agreed on Sunday night. Shinawatra has
helped to fund a number of big transfers in the past year but, with his assets currently frozen in
Thailand, rumours of his wish to move on had been well publicised.
OK, let me make sure I have all this straight. Real Madrid's Robinho, rumored all summer to be
going to Chelsea, gets snatched up by Manchester City, whose human-rights violating owner sold his
share to a group of fellas from Abu Dhabi. Berbatov, linked to Man Utd all summer, very nearly also
got bought by these new [.
The world of Premier League football has been crazy for some time, although it's reached new
heights in the past few days. That's because the Abu Dhabi United Group have decided to buy a new
football club and, after a careful game of 'eenie meenie miney mo', Manchester City are ...
You can't help but sympathise with (be jealous of) City fans at this point. Since last year,
they've gone from despair (going nowhere fast) to joy (Shinawatra) to eventual despair (Shinawatra)
and now, on the last day of the transfer window, sheer joy (Abu Dhabi United) again. It's enough to
drive you insane - and we [.
Manchester City could become the new powerhouse of English football. For anyone that doesn't know,
City was recently bought by an Arab company Abu Dhabi United Group which means that City now has
more money to spend then ever before. City has brought in Shaun Wright-Phillips and Robinho this
offseason, and reports are coming in on last minute bids that were also made by City.
Come on, be honest, there is a part, even within the most optimistic Manchester City supporter,
that thinks we are all going to wake up tomorrow and it will turn out to be that bloke from the
News of the World again. There is no Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment, no
al-Nahyan royal family and Dr Sulaiman al-Fahim turns out to be an undercover reporter with a tin
of cherry blossom, two white sheets, a JCloth and an accent borrowed straight from It Ain't Half
Hot Mum.
Taken from the Bangkok Post
Thai trio wait and see
TOR CHITTINAND
The selling of Manchester City to the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment will
not immediately affect the three Thai players on the club's books, according to an associate of
former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The takeover of Manchester City by the Abu Dhabi United Group has sparked fears that their thriving
academy may suffer and inevitably it will be much more difficult for the next generation of
footballers to break into the first-team. The question being asked is can a more effective method
of bridging the gap between the reserves and the first team be developed?
Cesc Fabregas insists it would be "suicidal for his career" to leave Arsenal for
Manchester City. City's new owners, Abu Dhabi United Group, are reportedly ready to launch a huge
offer to land the 21-year-old, besides a number of other world class stars including Cristiano
Ronaldo, Fernando Torres and Kaka.
The salient feature of the Abu Dhabi royal family's takeover of Manchester City to this point has
been its combination of revolutionary terror and sincere incompetence. On the one hand, the thought
of yet another sudden exponential expansion of the role of money in football Abramovich turned into
a black-and-white TV on the day that color [.
Cesc Fabregas has reiterated his desire to remain at Arsenal after hearing of Manchester City's
interest in him. City's new owners, Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited, have
armed Mark Hughes with an infinite transfer warchest that has already seen the signing of Real
Madrid star Robinho for £32.
