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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth The cache of leaked emails and documents that would eventually lead to the crisis in which Manchester City are now embroiled was published by Der Spiegel in 2018 , and often it was the tone of the club’s communications that was as startling as their content. Of City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak, a trusted adviser to the royal family of the United Arab Emirates, it was said that he would “rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue [Uefa] for the next 10 years” than accept a fine. In the same tranche of documents, City lawyer Simon Cliff asserts that “Uefa doesn’t respond to anything other than aggression”, and threatens the governing body of European football – who were pursuing City over alleged financial irregularities at the time – with “the destruction of their rules and organisation”. Continue reading...

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Sep 29, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Scale of City’s punishment is the only story but Premier League must bear some responsibility | Barney Ronay

Scale of City’s punishment is the only story but Premier League must bear some responsibility | Barney Ronay

Khaldoon al-Mubarak has come out fighting yet the Premier League failed completely to regulate his club Nothing is over, nothing is done. Or at least not judging by the bravura, balls-out confidence of Manchester City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, who remains convinced the past three days of whiplash are simply the drumroll before the big reveal, prelude to some clinching piece of evidence that will swish away the initial finding of guilt on the Premier League’s 100-plus charges. This appears to be the official City position right now. Rope-a-dope litigation. Scooby-Doo justice. A verdict that is simply exposition, buildup to that moment where we finally get to rip off the zombie mask and reveal the cranky old amusement park owner underneath, with his bulging ring-binder full of irrefutable evidence of City’s innocence. Continue reading...

Sep 28, 2026 · byThe Guardian