[OFF THE POST] Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan gave the each of the team’s players a $270,000 watch when they paid him a visit in Abu Dhabi en route to an exhibition tournament in South Africa.
Manchester City finished 10th in the 2008-09 English Premier League, its first season under the ownership of Abu Dhabi United Group.
Watches for the whole squad would have cost Sheikh Mansour about $8 million. His personal wealth is estimated at $22 billion and his family’s fortune at $1 trillion
The watches were jewel-encrusted Franck Mullers.