Will $430 Million Translate to 4th or Better?
SI’s Georgina Turner has a good column on the prospects of Manchester City reaching the top four, or even higher at the end of the upcoming BPL season.
According to Turner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, City’s owner, has shelled out a total of $430,000,000 thus far to build the team into a championship contender. Manager Roberto Mancini goes into his second season with the weight of all that money on his shoulders, and expectations to at least make Champions League for 2011-2012. Fall short, and his tenure will likely come to a conclusion. Fair or not, that is the way it is now – Even Sir Alex Ferguson was given six years to build Manchester United into the organization we have today. There is much doubt that Mancini will be given this kind of leeway when hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line.
Read more at sportsillustrated.cnn.com
