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Understand that the punishment Manchester City faces from English football should the Abu Dhabi-owned club continue to escalate its conflict with the Premier League include: 🔻Expulsion from the League 🔻The EFL declining to grant City admission to any of its divisions 🔻Removal of City owners, directors and executives

Duncan Castles @DuncanCastles

3 hours ago

‘Organised and Clear’ - Sham City Transfers Podcast special with Nick Harris. 🔻UK’s greatest sporting scandal 🔻Abu Dhabi’s ‘irrefutable evidence’ 🔻City’s guilt an opportunity for the Premier League 🔻Manchester City headed to National League, Abu Dhabi removed as owners? What

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🚨 NEW: The Lib Dems have called for Andy Burnham to publish all details of his meetings with Manchester City’s owners and hospitality he’s accepted at the Etihad Stadium

🚨NEW: The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have called on Andy Burnham's government to release the details of what was discussed in a private meeting in Downing Street with Manchester City chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, days before the club's guilty verdicts were announced

1/. The #ManchesterCity judgment potentially raises very serious questions about how alleged accounting failures went undetected for 9 years. Today, I’ve written to the Financial Reporting Council asking what it will investigate, how quickly it can act, and whether it has the powers and resources it needs.

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@redgrose7 youtu.be/kzURFnNFsXE?si… Explains it superbly well

🤷 '𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞' - Stefan Borson reveals Man City's single BIGGEST problem with regards to their appeal against 114 guilty charges...

Andy Burnham urged to declare all meetings with Man City owners in letter from Lib Dem Culture spokesperson Anna Sabine, who also criticises his “extraordinary” defence of the club. | The Guardian theguardian.com/football/2026/…

#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015 With @SamWallaceTel ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Manchester City will argue the so-called 'tagged' sponsorship payments (totalling £830m) came from the Abu Dhabi Government not their owner (ADUG). This applies to State-controlled entities such as Etihad and Etisalat. Yet Etihad has previously refuted AD Government funding as "false". City can point to an internal report written for the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in 2010 which concluded the Abu Dhabi Government did indeed cover the sponsorship of Manchester City. The report was not intended for external publication. In their UEFA case, City denied the Etihad (or any other) sponsorship funds came from any other source other than a direct payment. Sheikh Mansour provided a letter which read: "I have not authorised ADUG to make any payments to Etihad, Etisalat or any of their affiliates in relation to their sponsorship of MCFC." In 2015, the 'Partnership for Open and Fair Skies' wrote to the US departments of Commerce, Transportation and State arguing Etihad gained a competitive advantage due to receiving huge sums from the Abu Dhabi Government. They allude to the internal report referenced above, which appears to confirm this. Yet Etihad's response was: "The assertion that the Abu Dhabi Government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false. "In 2011 Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10-year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City’s stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues." Etihad's denial the Abu Dhabi Government helped pay for their sponsorship goes against City's core argument, according to the verdict, that "AD Sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the AD Government towards their liability to pay the Recorded Sponsorship Fees." Due to redacted names, multiple sponsors, and the phrase 'from time to time', City could make a case for other sponsors, but Etihad's on-record denial doesn't help the club's position, according to multiple legal sources spoken to. Worth also reiterating, the panel, having reviewed the evidence already provided, already concluded any notion the Abu Dhabi Government not ADUG paid the tagged sums was "concocted well after the event".

@JacobsBen Do they just go around lying to everyone?

@b7rtl @OllieHolt22

“why did it take so long?” 😭

Adam Clery @AdamClery

7 hours ago

Some middle manager at Man City had to tell their IT team to custom-build a server that stopped the Premier League copy/pasting any text from the documents they handed over. "Yeah, we're innocent, but can you just make life as hard as possible for the people investigating us?"

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Some middle manager at Man City had to tell their IT team to custom-build a server that stopped the Premier League copy/pasting any text from the documents they handed over. "Yeah, we're innocent, but can you just make life as hard as possible for the people investigating us?"

If you are still defending City's owners after everything this week, when it is clear they will do anything to avoid punishment - capped off by blackmailing the UK government - you are part of the destruction of the integrity of football. This is proof sportswashing works.

Manchester City @ManCity

9 hours ago

Manchester City lodge appeal. 🔗 mancity.co/ManCityAppeal

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**EXCLUSIVE** Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak met a senior UK government minister to discuss the UAE’s investments in Britain just days before the club’s guilty verdicts were announced. Al Mubarak asked to meet Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on 14 September in his capacity as CEO of Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, sources tell Bloomberg. The pair held a private meeting in Downing Street on that date, the people said. Al Mubarak talked about current and future UAE investment in Britain, they said. The conversation covered the full range of the relationship including defence, security, intelligence and trade, they said. Eleven days later, on 25 September, the Athletic reported Man City had been found guilty of breaking Premier League rules. On 29 September, the Premier League confirmed Manchester City had been found guilty of artificially boosting its balance sheet by more than £900 million. The fact of the meeting so close to the verdict will raise further questions about the UK government’s handling of the case. Andy Burnham has faced criticism, including from his own ministers and officials, after he publicly suggested Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified from running the club because of the investment they bring to Britain. Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of the ruling could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@beanbreeto @DamianHastie @draper_rob Leave the poor execs alone, they were merely all confused for a number of years 🤷‍♂️

@slbsn Great to have you back Stefan. Thought we had lost you there 😄

Exclusive 💣 Sources say Liverpool and Manchester United are ready to take legal action against Manchester City. If severe sanctions are not placed on #mcfc, certain PL clubs are ready to do the unthinkable. Creating a new top tier with legitimate teams has been discussed.

Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5 UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain bloomberg.com/news/articles/…