Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of Manchester City, has said he will ‘tell everything’ about the club’s legal fight with the Premier League as soon as a verdict is delivered on the financial charges.
City were charged with 115 breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules in 2023. The allegations cover a nine-year period from 2009 to 2018. The club is also accused of failing to cooperate with the league’s financial investigation.
The case remains unresolved, although an independent commission held hearings a year and a half ago. City denies all wrongdoing. While awaiting the ruling, Khaldoon has expressed a strong desire to tell the club’s side of the story.
Speaking on the club’s official channels, he said: “Let me be consistent as I’ve always been — until the verdict, I can’t say much. Once the verdict is out, trust me, we will have a great sit-down and I will say everything I’ve wanted to say for the past three years.”
City has enjoyed sustained success since being acquired by the Abu Dhabi-based group in 2008, winning eight Premier League titles, the Champions League, four FA Cups, and seven League Cups. The club’s value has soared during that time.
Khaldoon insisted that owner Sheikh Mansour has no intention of selling City Football Group, which he values at around $10 billion. “Sheikh Mansour sees this club as a long-term investment. If he sold the whole thing on the market today, he wouldn’t sell it for less than $10 billion. Of course, Sheikh Mansour has no intention of selling this business. The intention is to keep growing it because the view here is it will only get bigger, and this is a great business to own,” he said. “It’s football and entertainment. In today’s world, as the world changes and people’s attention goes to other things, sport remains — and football within sport is the peak. Manchester City and this group, within the football world, is the peak. Gems like this, you don’t sell.”
