Manchester City accounts show Sheikh Mansour has put £1.3bn into club

• Total in addition to £150m Mansour paid to buy the club
• Club recorded £500.5m turnover and profit of £10m last year

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family has spent more than £1.3bn directly investing into Manchester City since he took over in 2008, the club’s latest accounts have stated.

That fortune has been in addition to the £150m Mansour is understood to have paid City’s then owner, Thaksin Shinawatra, to buy the club, taking the total spent by Mansour to more than £1.45bn.

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