Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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Sep 18, 2026
Big StevePANELIST
He's probably thinking, shit, I've not got Khaldun to hold my hand.
Big StevePANELIST
I've not got Sheikh Mansour on the end of the line.
Big StevePANELIST
I've got scruffy Jim who don't want to answer the fucking phone because he don't want to make a decision.
Big StevePANELIST
Gary Neville shone that prick up when they had that meeting and he said, why are you taking 50 grand off the ex-players? Why don't you just do a sportsman's dinner and bring Bruno and Maguire and do a charity auction? And he went, I never thought of that.
Jim WhiteHOST
The owners are never there.
Simon JordanHOST
No, and neither is Sheikh Mansour.
Simon JordanHOST
Josh and the others are.
Simon JordanHOST
So neither is Sheikh Mansour.
Simon JordanHOST
So he's a good owner and the Glazers are bad owners.
Simon JordanHOST
When you want corporates involved in business, you've just got the perfect example of business.
Simon JordanHOST
When we talk about regulating sport and putting it under the guidelines of business, you've just seen what business does.
Simon JordanHOST
When you've got businesses running football clubs, the Glazers are the perfect example of how business really looks when it runs business.
Dave ElliottHOST
Would you rather, say you're doing a, we'll cap it, we'll just say you have a room, 100-seater room, right? Would you rather sell 50 tickets and 50 bottoms on seats? Maybe someone has an extra anus, who knows? Say 53 anuses in that room.
Dave ElliottHOST
a lot of with any hope would you rather that or have Sheikh Mansour the owner of Man City buy every single ticket and just not turn up so you get the entire fee
Sean HegartyGUEST
but you don't get to do stand up I think I've always been a man who wants to gig more than the money.
Dave ElliottHOST
Yeah.
Dion FanningGUEST
They don't...
Dion FanningGUEST
There, there, there's always been something kind of clinical about them since, you know, the, the money arrived and Sheikh Mansour arrived.
Dion FanningGUEST
It's, uh, it's not...
Dion FanningGUEST
So, and Manchester City fans get so angry at this, um, as you know, among other things that they get, they get angered by.
Garry CookGUEST
Then if you then jump to 2005, the Glazer family take over the football club at Manchester United.
Garry CookGUEST
Sheikh Mansour takes over the club Manchester City, and I was privileged to be a part of that.
Garry CookGUEST
But during the selling process to Sheikh Mansour, we were selling an investment in the Manchester economy, not a football team that was gonna play every weekend at three o'clock.
Garry CookGUEST
That, that...
Garry CookGUEST
It was a very different proposition all built off this, this new global media product.
Kate MasonHOST
Is that, is that right?
Garry CookGUEST
Oh, it's absolutely right.
Garry CookGUEST
And w- you know, in the early presentations to Sheikh Mansour's team, it w- we, we were talking about the realm that was once called Eastlands, and it was the City of Manchester Stadium.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Um, and given that David Moyes has such a senior role at the club, uh, that, that does seem unusual.
Kieran MaguireHOST
At the same time, how often did Pep Guardiola chat to Sheikh Mansour? You know, how often does Mikel Arteta speak to Stan Kroenke, who's known as Silent Stan? Um-
Kevin DayHOST
Yeah.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Which, uh, would've been good 100 years ago in, uh, in, in the movies world, but-
Kieran MaguireHOST
... and people will say, "Well, hold on.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Yeah, the Glazers don't attend very many matches.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Sheikh Mansour doesn't attend very many matches." Stan Kroenke, I don't think, I don't know whether he's ever been to, to the Emirates.
Kieran MaguireHOST
But, um, optics and public relations are important, and I, and I think here, uh, Dan Friedkin has had an opportunity and has missed that opportunity to, uh, integrate and to communicate and to win over the Everton, uh, fan base.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
Um, y- there's a case for saying they're on the wrong side of history because they can't do what Roman Abramovich did.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
They can't do what Sheikh Mansour, and just say, "If I lose 200 million pounds this year, so what? It, it's small change for me." So it, it has made it far more difficult and on that point of view, you would say that it's, it's unfair in the sense that you can't have an even playing field.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
If they said, we have a wage cap, which is 200 million, 300 million, 400 million for every club, then if the, if the owners want to, to cover those losses, then, then they should be free to do so.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
That's the counterargument.
Rob DraperHOST
I mean, Joe Royle had a two or three years before him.
Rob DraperHOST
But really, if you think of City pre, um, sort of the- the- the takeover, the Sheikh Mansour takeover, it was a manager every year, and he stays for best part of four seasons.
Rob DraperHOST
He gets them classically promoted from the, what is now the First Division, 99 points, so really attacking side.
Rob DraperHOST
Brings in lots of experienced players, Schmeichel, McManaman, Fowler, David James.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
It's how they choose it.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
But could they replicate Roman Abramovich? Could they replicate Sheikh Mansour? Well, they have the resources to do so, but they're on the wrong side of history.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
That portcullis came down in 2013. which said you can only spend you only lose so much money so in the initial reincarnation of financial fair play which was renamed profitability and sustainability and has now been replaced with squad cost ratio um the rules count against I think they're sort of, you could argue certainly Villa and Newcastle.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
I put those into the ambitious stroke aspirational category.
Emma PatonHOST
And I just wonder what it would mean for other takeovers that we saw down the line.
Emma PatonHOST
Manchester City probably, namely really in, in 2008 with Sheikh Mansour.
Emma PatonHOST
Because you said before, it was kind, it was just so different, wasn't it?
Jack Pitt-BrookeGUEST
Yeah.
Emma PatonHOST
[laughs]
Jack Pitt-BrookeGUEST
And so I do think after that sudden...
Jack Pitt-BrookeGUEST
I, I don't really think there's a world in which the Sheikh Mansour takeover of Manchester City in 2008 would have happened in the same way were it not for the success of Abramovich and Chelsea.
Jack Pitt-BrookeGUEST
I think that, I think that one follows the other, basically.
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