UAE/Qatar: Prestige comes at a price for big footballing investments

Manchester City’s second Barclays Premier League title in three years has made Abu Dhabi United Group owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, scion of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, revered in the east side of the UK’s second city, if not beyond. But based in the stadium named for Etihad Airways and generously sponsored by several other UAE companies, Man City has also been under the spotlight for allegedly abusing Uefa’s new Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules – which is an issue, too, for Qatar’s European footballing interest, French club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).