Revolution Gold in English Football

* Cristiano Ronaldo, Torres and Fabregas, the subject of Abu Dhabi United Group

* 'We want the best in the world, and if the coach has them, will have'

* The real key man, according to the BBC, Sheikh Mansur bin Zayed al Nahyan

* In total, the Premier has spent 750 million euros on players

The English football these days perplexed attends a bizarre change of guard: led by the takeover of Manchester City for a fund investor of the royal family of Abu Dhabi. The operation is much more than the purchase of a smaller club. It is a point apart and in the business of Premier. Not because of the amount of treatment, which is around 250 million euros, but because it portends a reversal in signings that leaves little to Abramovich.

The fund, which responds to the name of Abu Dhabi United Group, has landed in the Premier treading strong: Robinho in cash by paying 42 million euros, making deals for Villa, Berbatov and Mario Gomez and warning that will shatter the market for chips to Cristiano Ronaldo as soon as possible. Any of these operations would have risen further huge investment in English football this summer signings. In total, the Premier has spent 750 million euros on players, while Spain, for example, barely reaches the 270.

"Ronaldo has said he wants to play at the best club in the world," said the spokesman for the group yesterday Arabic. "Well, in January we will see if he speaks or does not speak seriously. Real Madrid is valued at 110 million euros, but a player like that costs a lot more, I believe that about 160 million euros. What if payments ? Why not? We are going to be the world's largest club, rather than the more than Madrid and Manchester United together. "

Apart from these and other bravuconadas, has a certain symbolic value that was precisely the pagan Abramovich's coup original owners of the new City, who seized the Russian at the last minute on Monday his latest whim. The episode of the signing of Robinho in extremis is prodigious for many reasons. Not only because they sprayed the record transfer of the Premier, set two years ago by the purchase of Ukrainian Svevchenko, but because the Arabs put the 42 million euros in cash and without even having closed the acquisition of the club, which remains pending some fringes last minute.

To make matters worse, it should be added that of Robinho was not the only offer made by the Arabs during the evening of Monday. They tried hard to recruit and Villa striker hispanoalemán Stuttgart's Mario Gomez, and lacked the hard edge of a bolt to their wealthy neighbors of the United signing of Bulgarian Dimitar Berbatov.

'The same impact that Chelsea'

And the frenzy on Monday is only the beginning. The English fans were desayunaban yesterday with bravuconadas representative of the group, Sulaiman al Fahim (photo), who greeted the end of Abramovich's reign: "We want to take Manchester City the same impact Chelsea in recent years."

A journalist with the daily 'The Times' Al Fahim asked if the group would be willing to spend the summer next 244 million euros in reshaping the workforce. "Of course. We need a good player who can give energy. And then people like Henry or Ronaldo, who can add confidence to the younger players," he said. Indeed, Cristiano Ronaldo will not only be the goal. Fernando Torres and Cesc Fàbregas also come into their plans. "We want the best in the world, and if the coach has them, will," he continued.

The City plays lately to Messiah per year. The past summer was the former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who bought a club to drift and suffocated by debts. A priori, the Hegira Thaksin did not start badly. It chips to Sven-Goran Eriksson and a heterogeneous group of players but efficient. The problems began with the season almost finished. First with the arbitrary dismissal of Eriksson and then with political and financial problems of Thai, under investigation for economic crimes in his country and not yet be given asylum in the UK.

The imminent departure of Thaksin put on alert to his coach, the newcomer Mark Hughes, who raced as he could in the market for signings. On Monday, however, the landing in Abu Dhabi changed his luck and the technician was found face to face with his new acquisition. Robinho travelled to London and met with his coach.

Sulaiman al Fahim is the visible face of all this earthquake. The closed the deal on the club on Monday in a hotel in London and he will take the reins of time. Meanwhile, it has attracted the curiosity of the British media for his personality atrabiliaria. It was a rich foundation to build skyscrapers and resorts, has its own reality show on an Arabic television and is a frequent petardeo of Hollywood, where he has been photographed with Demi Moore and Leonardo di Caprio.

Anyway, Al Fahim is just the nominees. The real key man, according to the BBC, Sheikh Mansur bin Zayed al Nahyan, a member of royalty and brother of the heir. According to various publications, the fortunes of the Royal Family is well above the billion euros, which makes calderilla the 244 million paid by the City.