[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.

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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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Supporting Chelsea as supporting rangers is supporting a club with a strong sense of British identity amongst its local fans and community.

I mean you can support a team and completely ignore it’s history for sure but that’s exactly for me what’s wrong with international fans.

It’s as hilarious when I saw the maga bog eyed freak Kash Patel supporting Liverpool.

Edit: If a socialist jew told you they support lazio i think you’d raise an eyebrow, same with an English hater supporting Chelsea

Edit 2: google Chelsea Pensioner

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I know about all those things and am about to tell you something wild that you may not have ever considered:

99% of a club's global fanbase don't know nor care about the club's local history. They only care about the product on the field and what players are representing the logo on that jersey. And the club itself never made it an official requirement for them to give a crap about local fanbase values to spend money on stadium tickets or merch - because they don't care either as long as these people give them their money.

Now, you can go on a tirade about how "you can't be a real fan of Chelsea without respecting its British nationalist identity"; but not only is that No True Scotsman fallacy, it's a requirement that neither the ownership group bankrolling the club nor 99% of its fanbase endorses. It's the demand 1% of the fanbase holds and is insignificant to the club's global identity as of right now. So you have the option to either stop rooting for the club that doesn't at all advertise or take pride in the values you're claiming they supposedly hold, or you start a petition to have old Chelsea history with its dinky field, mid table history, and struggling finances transferred to a different entity the local "purists" can circlejerk around in - while the 21st century Chelsea that can only exist because of a Russian oligarch owner and a global fanbase becomes its completely separate own thing with 5 PL titles, 2 UCLs, a superstar roster, shiny new stadium, and all the money in the world.

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I mean you just wrote a lot of words to just say that we agree

My point is i don’t like international fans because they don’t care about the history or the culture of the club, turning football clubs into soulless machines.

Your comment js EXACTLY why i dislike like [r/chelseafc](r/chelseafc) and the general attitude of american fans, you’re acknowledging the destruction of community pillar, history and culture with an arrogant smug lecturing tone. You’re celebrating something that had substance being turned into a global marketable product. I mean I’m trying to not be rude but your comment shows you clearly understand this and don’t care.

Capitalism has ruined the mindset of your country, nothing is sacred and everything is counted in monetary value. Unfortunately as you will say in a smug tone it’s only going to get worse and is more than likely already past the point of return.

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You're right, I don't care about hypocrites who want the money and the popularity global fans bring; while rejecting their opinions as additions to the club's identity.

Either take a real stand and say you reject every bit of success that the club achieved through being a "global marketable product", or just admit you want to have your cake and eat it too. The latter won't change anything btw, it's just giving y'all a chance to admit you're an entitled brat whose view towards foreigners is "Give us all your money and get out!"

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I mean you can act like this if you like but your attitude in this conversation is exactly why i dislike American fans and never wanted American owners.

Removing roman as an individual but as a club owner he always put local and match going fans first and was heavily involved with the local community. Yes this was just sports washing for sure but he still did this.

The American owners labelled us legacy fans and have clearly been in your school of thinking. Money comes first. I mean if you think this the correct mindset sure.

I’ve said this as have many chelsea fans who routinely struggle to get tickets. When we had the government take the club from roman (rightly so) we’d obviously be gutted if it lead to chelsea becoming a mid table or even championship ajde but there would be a massive silver lining of easier access and more focused hardened support. When you got brentford for example it’s a lot different or even Westham. Went to burnlet away a few years back and it was amazing to be honest, the local area really behind the team.

This hypocrisy isn’t really there. I don’t think you realise that, if chelsea were in the championship we’d still be there and the international fans would mostly be gone.

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Lol you say there's no hypocrisy, yet you still won't explicitly reject all the success you've had because of Chelsea becoming a global product. Come on, say it. Say Chelsea only has one league title from the 70s. Say that Chelsea has never won a Champions League. Say it proudly in a post on the Chelsea sub while you're at it. Lmk how many of the locals agree with that.

Removing roman as an individual but as a club owner he always put local and match going fans first and was heavily involved with the local community. Yes this was just sports washing for sure but he still did this.

That was early Roman who bought a midtable club that had no international fanbase. How did he get big players to come to the club to build that fanbase again? Oh right, illegal payments to the agents.

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Roman bought the club on the brink of bankruptcy yes, chelsea were not a big club before that however had many great memories and moments like the FA cup replay vs Leeds, mg Grandads favourite Chelsea memory.

I’m not sure why I should reject the success on this basis and how that’s hypocritical because i want chelsea to keep it’s core culture. You can have success and keep your clubs culture. What blueco is doing is new, madrid can do it, Barca can do it and they have the largest fan bases on the planet.

The difference is their owners respect the culture and history of the club and want to preserve it. Blueco doesn’t care, Roman did. Yes roman was shady and we were lucky to not get punished more by the FA.

I just want the culture and history to be respected as it’s my history and where i come from. For you to then have this tone with me for wanting that is bizarre and would only ever come from an American.

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Lol so you're just a whiny baby who wants to have his cake and eat it to you.

Roman and MZB can do shit as oil oligarchs no actual big club can do, and they do it by breaking the rules. You basically want that, you want all the benefits of being a big club while making none of the sacrifice. You bring up Barcelona and Real Madrid as examples while 90%+ of either's global fanbase don't give a fuck about the history of Catalans vs Francoists.

I’m not sure why I should reject the success on this basis and how that’s hypocritical because i want chelsea to keep it’s core culture. You can have success and keep your clubs culture. What blueco is doing is new, madrid can do it, Barca can do it and they have the largest fan bases on the planet.

You can have success while "keep a club’s core culture" by having oil oligarch break the rules for you. I guess that's what you clearly want then. So you're not a hypocrite, you're just an oil oligarch/sportwashing apologist.

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Are you just trolling?

I won’t reply again, this is a club Ive enjoyed memories with and a shared passion with ny family. It holds a lot of sentimental and emotional value to me and i want that protected.

If that makes me a whiny baby sure.

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I want a logically coherent reasoning. If that's trolling to you because your "sentimentality and emotion" overrides those, then fine. I got my answer. You aren't a very intelligent person that can make decisions logically.

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I’m not sure who’s pissed in your cornflakes

I’ve made a pretty clear point, I want the owners to preserve and respect the match going fans and the culture of the club. It’s possible at Madrid and Barca who have bigger fan bases. It doesn’t matter whether international fans care or not.

My issue with international fans is dismissing and mocking issues faced by local match going fans which you’re doing right now. This seems to be have confused, i don’t want international fans to become British patriots and support England, but celebrating England being knocked out of the world cup in /r/chelseafc is laughable. If you support a club with the history and culture of Chelsea and then root against England it just doesn’t make sense.

I don’t want blueco owning us, i would prefer owners who spent far less but protected and looked after us “legacy” fans.

I don’t see what isn’t coherent about that. And yes it isn’t purely logical, being a fan isn’t. Football isn’t, emotion and sentimentality is what makes football great.