Mansour bin Zahyed al Nahyan has an estimated worth of about 31 billion dollars, and apparently has run out of things to spend it on in Dubai.

After he bought Manchester City last season (he might as well have bought the city of Manchester!), the team went on to obtain the likes of Robinho, Craig Bellamy, and Nigel de Jong, to name just a few players. This summer, however, the spending spree has taking on a whole new level. Apparently, it all started when Manchester City’s bid for Samuel Eto’o to make him the highest paid player in world football was rejected by the player himself. How dare he? said the Sheikh, wired 100 million dollars to England and bought Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Roque Santa Cruz…

Somebody should tell him he is not playing Football Manager on his computer!

Now Manchester’s coach Mark Hughes is facing a problem of different sorts. How do you play with five strikers? Robinho, Bellamy, Tevez, Santa Cruz, and Adebayor are first team players at any other club, and all of them are stars in their national teams. Not to mention the additional three substitute strikers he has available!

I guess we will be witnessing the renaissance of the 2-3-5 lineup this season…