NAPOLI president Aurelio de Laurentiis has taunted Manchester City by saying owner Sheikh Mansour may soon get bored.
The Serie A side put Roberto Mancini's men on the brink of a Champions League exit with their 2-1 home win on Tuesday.
And De Laurentiis believes Manchester City's mega-rich owner will want a rapid return on the £987million he has ploughed in at the Etihad.
The controversial film impresario said: "I think Sheikh Mansour just wanted a toy when he bought Manchester City.
"If they don't win something quickly, he could just go somewhere else and buy another toy.
"If Mansour would like to invest in Napoli he should invest as much as I did and get your team to improve and grow.
"Our success proves two things — perhaps money isn't everything, as even with balanced books you can still go far.
"And this Napoli side has a strong fibre and can give us great moments."
City's likely exit from the Champions League at the first hurdle could cost them as much as £20m.
Mancini's men now need to beat Bayern Munich and pray that pointless Villarreal can take something against Napoli.
But Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge warned: "We're still going to try and win. There are points for the five-year ranking at stake — and there's 800,000 Euros to the winner of the game."
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