Former Manchester City star Pablo Zabaleta has revealed the dressing room reacted with both fear and excitement to the Abu Dhabi purchase of the club in 2008.
The Spanish defender who joined City just days before the takeover says players joked about being replaced by the likes of Messi and Ronaldo when they realised the spending power of the new owners. "They invested £40million for Robinho and there I said, 'Now what do I do?
I'm going to last six months here.'” he told La Nacion via Goal. "We took it a bit as a joke and... in the locker room we started putting 'Messi', 'Cristiano Ronaldo'.
We were s****** ourselves." Gary Neville has hit back at comments made by the wife of United flop Angel Di Maria who described Manchester as
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