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@City_Xtra

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@City_Chief

[Times Sport @TimesSport]

🔺 Update: Manchester City’s defence that their principal sponsorship deals were funded by the Abu Dhabi government and not the club’s owner may be undermined by a statement made by their principal sponsor Etihad to a US investigation in 2015 | ✍️ @martynziegler, @Lawton_Times https://t.co/TuLxvmEP36

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 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

[James Ducker @TelegraphDucker]

From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015

[James Ducker @TelegraphDucker]

#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

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https://t.co/GEYJT2cm7C

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@StanCollymore Chelsea won more trophies than Liverpool in the 90s and were a CL club before the takeover (at Liverpool's expense). What do you say to that? Probably nothing 🤡

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

**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.

https://t.co/kEZiAWiFEV

[Eóin @eoodonoghue]

@ABolt63820 @MiguelDelaney Are you mad? Chelsea understood the rules and operated within them better than City did.

[Eóin @eoodonoghue]

@ABolt63820 @MiguelDelaney Bro, you’re the one who believes CAS somehow “cleared” City when a huge part of the case was time-barred. That wasn’t a blanket vindication of the underlying conduct. Keep huffing the copium.

[Eóin @eoodonoghue]

@MiguelDelaney And how many of the other 19 Premier League clubs have been through a UK government-controlled sale, with new owners then given full access to the club’s financial records and internal documentation?

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@FCBarcelona

[Liam Piti🇿🇼🇱🇸 @LiamPiti_7]

@FCBarcelona Your time will come mfs📍📍📍

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@ManCity @rayan_cherki @donnarumma @equipedefrance @Azzurri

[Rob @journalism_rp]

Andy Burnham had 0 issue wading into the Chelsea sale and demanding an investigation into Roman Abramovich's investments in England. Hopefully an MP shows the cojones to do the same about the UAE investment into Manchester and how Burnham may have facilitated it.

[Eóin @eoodonoghue]

@FabrizioRomano

[Jimmy Murphy @JimmyMu35984013]

PSG revenue:

2010/11 — €99.5m (before the Qatar takeover)
2011/12 — €220.5m
2012/13 — €398.8m

Amazing commercial work by the guys from Qatar there.

300% increase in two years.

[Common Sense with Joey Barton @Common_SensePod]

@TimesSport @Lawton_Times Ethiad owners having conversations with Man City owners