Khaldoon Al Mubarak to Reveal All After Verdict on City's 115 Charges

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says he is ready to finally “say everything” once the club’s long-running battle with the Premier League over 115 alleged financial rule breaches reaches a verdict.

City were hit in 2023 with a barrage of charges relating to a nine-year spell from 2009 to 2018, a period that tracks almost exactly with the club’s rise from ambitious project to domestic superpower. The Premier League also accused the club of failing to cooperate fully with its investigation into their finances.

An independent commission has already heard the case, but a year and a half on, there is still no ruling. The silence has become part of the story.

Khaldoon, speaking to the club’s own media channels, kept his public stance tight – but made clear he is itching to speak once the process ends.

“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.”

City have denied any wrongdoing throughout. While lawyers and administrators work in the background, the team have simply kept winning.

Since the 2008 takeover by Abu Dhabi-based owners, City have rewritten the modern English football landscape: eight Premier League titles, a Champions League, four FA Cups and seven League Cups. A club that once measured itself against local rivals now sits at the sharp end of European football’s elite.

That success has transformed City’s balance sheet as much as its trophy cabinet. The club now sits at the heart of the City Football Group, a global multi-club operation that Khaldoon says owner Sheikh Mansour has no interest in cashing out.

“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.

“It's football and it's entertainment. 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 global network, the soaring valuation – all of it now hangs in the same air as the unresolved charges. When the commission finally delivers its verdict, Khaldoon has promised his side of the story.

What that story sounds like may shape how this era of Manchester City is remembered.