This man paid £210 million in 2008 for Manchester City
Current valuation is £4.1 billion.
His gain is about £3.9 billion - roughly a 20-fold increase in club value.
He has never taken a penny out of the club
His Chairman says he will not sell, even for £10 billion
Shaq reveals he tracked down his biological father who abandoned him and found out he lived 40 blocks away the whole time
"My mother said you should connect with your biological father. I called my uncle who's a cop. He said, 'You ain't gonna believe this, you know that restaurant we eat at all the time? He lives in that building'"
"There was always a chef there who'd start crying when he saw me. He said, 'I'm Joe's best friend. I just hope one day you come down here and y'all can eat'"
"He's 40 blocks away. I went to meet him. He said sorry. I said, you don't need to say sorry, everybody has their problems"
🔸 3 years at Inter Milan
🔸 3 years at Real Madrid
🔸 5 years at Chelsea
🔸 3 years at Manchester City
23 titles in his career, including 4 Champions League trophies and 4 Club World Cups.
Champion with Real, Chelsea, and City, and also reached a World Cup final with Croatia.
Mateo Kovačić has quietly built one of the most successful careers of his generation — and he’s still only 31 years old. 🤩🇭🇷
2016: Joe Hart
2017: Pablo Zabaleta
2018: Yaya Touré
2019: Vincent Kompany
2020: David Silva
2021: Sergio Agüero
2022: Fernandinho & Raheem Sterling
2023: İlkay Gündoğan & Riyad Mahrez
2024: Kyle Walker
2025: Kevin De Bruyne
2026: Bernardo Silva, John Stones & the architect of it all, Pep Guardiola.
i can’t take it. i genuinely cannot take it.