Manchester City can confirm that the story in The Sun newspaper this morning claiming that our players visiting Abu Dhabi had been given expensive watches by Sheikh Mansour is a fabrication.
The club is pursuing the matter legally and will do so in the most robust fashion possible.
Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Stephen Ireland, and Carlos Tevez have not met with Sheikh Mansour and have spent their day fulfilling a host of engagements on behalf of new club sponsors Etihad.
The players have this afternoon been helping out at a children’s holiday activity centre where 150 local youngsters got to meet them.
