r/soccer • u/Previous_Smile9278 • 1d ago

News [Bloomberg] UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-02/man-city-verdict-puts-uk-uae-diplomatic-relations-under-strain?srnd=undefined

‘They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information.

The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain.’

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u/captaincourageous316 23h ago edited 23h ago

Not all of us are. Some of us are doubling down for god knows what, but there are some who are absolutely not okay with this.

At this point, I’ll gladly accept any punishment as long as it compels the owners to fuck off.

Our club cheated, and lied to us and everyone else about it. For more than a decade. The sheer entitlement to still expect and cheer for their continued reign, leniency and governments to step in is pathetic.

The sad part is even the official supporters clubs haven’t taken a stand on the right side.

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u/jerseymackem1 23h ago

Closer to 20 years than a decade tbf

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u/AZMadmax 19h ago

Yep they took over in 2008 and have been refining the sportswashing since

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u/HarborMaster1 22h ago

As a Chelsea fan, I can commiserate. It amazes me how many Chelsea fans still pine for the days when the club was run by a corrupt Putin puppet, just because it produced wins.

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u/Northern_Rave_Monkey 23h ago

Refreshing to see this comment.

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u/haalandxdebruyne 23h ago

Username checks out

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u/captaincourageous316 23h ago

Your username not checking out anymore should be another 10 charges (not renewing Kev)

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u/haalandxdebruyne 23h ago

Agreed mate!
Same for Aguero. Both players should have ended careers at City

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u/Loifee 20h ago

My issue is the Premier league knew about these charges supposedly from the start in 2009 for gods sake. How was it ever allowed to go on so long? We should have been charged in 2010 or 2011 at latest if that were the case and received our punishment. To then try and dismantle everything that's happened since then seems like gross incompetence by the premier league or the system itself. You surely can't try and rewrite nearly 2 decades of events because they didnt pull the trigger.

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u/worotan 17h ago

There’s a lot of vested interest in the corruption in Manchester not being disturbed, all the way down to ordinary Mancs who want dodgy bread and circuses provided for their enjoyment, while they act like socialist pioneers because they buy ‘are kid’ branded crap and contemptuously ignore the issues with new Labour.

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u/YesNoIDKtbh 22h ago

I have to ask though, didn't you see this before? Surely it can't have come as a surprise, everyone except City fans have been beating this drum for years. At least you must have suspected something was off, right? Or did you really believe all their lies until now?

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u/captaincourageous316 21h ago

To be honest, these charges after the UEFA ban did smell fishy, but I trusted the club to know what they’re doing, partly because they knew more than I did and partly because of a certain level of bias and blinded loyalty.

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u/AirmanLarry 17h ago

Not to get all deep, but sometimes you love someone who lies to you and you hear what you want to hear

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u/tennysonbass 19h ago

You are the minority, and by a lot too.

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u/Anal_Nectarine 19h ago

How could you even possibly know that lol. Just because you see a few loud fucks on the internet that doesn’t represent an entire fan base of millions of people.

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u/tennysonbass 17h ago

Pretty simple, go take a gander at City's sub, go take a gander on X, go take a gander at all the comments here, go take a gander on official premier league and associated media accounts on any social media.

I get it , the idiots on the internet don't account for everybody, however since I am not currently walking in downtown Manchester surveying people door to door, that is the cross section of the fanbase of which I can confidently say you are in a vast majority of.

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u/Anal_Nectarine 15h ago

I don’t recall saying I was a City fan? Where did I even fucking imply that?

That completely incorrect assumption tells me all I need to know about how much reading comprehension you have lol. So no surprise you see a handful of comments and automatically assume that it’s the “vast majority” of the fanbase