Khaldoon Al Mubarak Promises to Speak Out on Man City Charges

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says he is ready to finally “say everything” once the club’s long‑running financial case with the Premier League reaches a conclusion, insisting the ownership has no intention of walking away from what he calls a “beautiful business to own”.

City were hit in 2023 with 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules, covering a nine-year spell from 2009 to 2018. The club were also charged with failing to cooperate fully with the league’s investigation into their finances.

An independent commission has already held a hearing, but a year and a half on, there is still no ruling. The silence around the case has only deepened the sense of standoff between the champions and the league’s authorities.

City have consistently denied any wrongdoing. Khaldoon, speaking to the club’s own media channels, kept his public line tight but made clear he is braced for the moment the verdict lands.

“Let me be as consistent as I’ve always been — until we have a ruling, I can’t say much,” he said. “Once we have a ruling, believe me, we’re going to have a wonderful sit down together and I’ll say everything I’ve wanted to say for the last three years.”

The comments underline a tension that has run parallel to City’s era of dominance on the pitch. Since the Abu Dhabi‑backed takeover in 2008, the club have rewritten the modern English game’s balance of power: eight Premier League titles, a Champions League, four FA Cups and seven League Cups have turned them into the defining team of the era.

That success has transformed the club’s value. Khaldoon revealed that owner Sheikh Mansour views the City Football Group — the global multi-club structure built around Manchester City — as a long‑term project, and he put a striking number on it.

“Sheikh Mansour, when he looks at this club, he sees it as a long-term investment,” Khaldoon said. “If you’re going to sell all this today in the market, you wouldn’t sell it for less than 10 billion dollars minimum.

“Of course, His Highness has no intention of selling this business. There’s only intention to keep growing this because the view here is this will only grow and this is a beautiful business to own.”

For Khaldoon, the rationale is as much about the nature of sport as it is about balance sheets.

“It’s football and it’s entertainment,” he said. “In the world we’re in today, while the world changes and people’s attention goes to different things, sport stays — and football within sports is the pinnacle.

“And Manchester City and this group, within the football world, is a pinnacle. These sorts of jewels, you don’t sell.”

The trophies, the valuation, the certainty over ownership: all of it now sits in the shadow of that looming commission verdict. When it finally arrives, Khaldoon has made one thing clear — Manchester City will not stay quiet.