Man City owner eyes 6 buys, wary of inflated prices

ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi billionaire owner of English soccer club Manchester City will not pay "crazy money" for players, but may buy up to six players for next season, the club's chairman said in remarks on Wednesday.

"I'm frustrated with people assuming we are going to throw crazy money at deals, that we won't understand true values and we can't negotiate or get value for a player," Khaldoon al Mubarak told local daily The National in a rare interview. "We've had numbers thrown at us that are a joke."

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, through Abu Dhabi United Group, took over Manchester City from former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September, theoretically making City the league's richest club - taking the mantle held by Chelsea for the last five years under Russian owner Roman Abramovich.