When Sheikh Mansour’s Wallet Claimed My Spot…
Richard Dunne, the former Manchester City colossus, recently opened up about getting the boot from the Etihad in 2009. After playing the beautiful game 350 times for the club, Dunne felt more at home on the pitch than on his own couch. But when Sheikh Mansour rolled in with a wallet bigger than a football, things got pricey and competitive fast!
Suddenly it was all about the Benjamins for City, snapping up stars like Kolo Toure and Joleon Lescott. It was like a supermarket sweep, but with a £5 million offer luring Dunne to Aston Villa. Feeling as welcome as a red card at a birthday party, Dunne moved on, sharing, “Your face fits sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. So, you move!”
Even though he wasn’t around for City’s glitzy trophy parade, Dunne took his talents to Villa and later QPR, eventually hanging up his boots in 2015 with 431 Premier League games whisked away in his footlocker. Still holding onto hefty accolades, Dunne’s legacy is etched in not just Manchester, but on every pitch he graced – because ain’t nobody bursting his bubble!
