The article starts with a brief summary of yesterday's match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund, and then comes the big story.

Mancini has asked for him by name. Please, Mansour family, wave your cheque book, and you can buy a thousand men for this one.

As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention and the listener has a heart. Perhaps the Guardian reporter, Frank, was just trying to poke fun at City's game-breaking extravaganza.

As everyone knows, he inadvertently a joke, but let Mansour side really moved the heart.

However, ON THE NIGHT AFTER THE GAME, MANCINI MADE A PHONE CALL TO HIS ASSISTANT AT THE FIRE LINE, IN WHICH HE SPUTTERED A NUMBER OF STATISTICS IN SUPPORT OF MURYUN'S CLAIMS AND THEN PROMISED THAT HE WOULD LEAD THE TEAM IF ONLY THE CLUB COULD BUY HIM. And THEN HE HAD TO TEACH MUYUN how to DRIP, anyway, over and OVER again, this phone call for about half AN hour.

As one of the UAE's top aides, when finally delivered to Mansour, the assistant directly Mancini's half an hour of rambling, condensed into a sentence, four words: "Roberto wants to buy!"