{"id":645934,"date":"2026-10-05T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645934\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:56:13","slug":"man-city-ffp-sheikh-mansour-to-sell-club-after-being-disgraced-by-guilty-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645934\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City FFP: Sheikh Mansour to sell club after being ‘disgraced’ by guilty verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a>\u2019s owners will sell the club after being \u201cembarrassed and disgraced\u201d by the independent commission\u2019s guilty verdict, according to a UAE expert.<\/p>\n

The Premier League confirmed<\/a> last week that an independent panel has found City guilty on all charges related to breaches of their financial regulations over a nine-year period.<\/p>\n

It was found that City had arranged \u201csham\u201d contracts with commercial partners to inflate revenues and reduce costs to the tune of over \u00a3900m.<\/p>\n

City maintain their innocence and have appealed the ruling but the so-called \u2018irrefutable evidence\u2019 that the club bosses insist will prove their innocence is, well, refutable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: Ten Manchester City grounds for appeal and why they won\u2019t wash<\/a><\/p>\n

We wait to learn the Premier League punishment and just how much City will have to pay<\/a> their rivals in damages.<\/p>\n

Etihad Airways have piled further pressure on the Premier League, threatening legal action over the \u2018damaging implications\u2019 of the commission\u2019s findings, while making a telling blunder in their 307-word statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Expulsion from the Premier League is a possibility, but Gary Neville believes the only \u201cfair\u201d punishment<\/a> would be for the independent regulator to remove City\u2019s owners.<\/p>\n

However, Christopher M Davidson, UAE expert and author of Abu Dhabi: Oil & Beyond, insists owner Sheikh Mansour will walk before he\u2019s pushed if the club\u2019s appeal is unsuccessful, despite chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak insisting there is \u201cno intention to sell\u201d City in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cManchester City and this group within the football world is a pinnacle and these sorts of jewels you don\u2019t sell,\u201d Khaldoon said.<\/p>\n

But Davidson argues the independent commission\u2019s verdict will change their minds.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce there\u2019s some time to digest this, my feeling would be that they would extricate themselves,\u201d he told The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think primarily it would be seen from a political and cultural aspect. The ruling family of Abu Dhabi would feel that they had been embarrassed and disgraced by this ruling, and the best way of moving forward would be to sell now to cut the losses, as it were, rather than allow this to be a festering, lingering problem where the ownership of their club would be forever tainted in England.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t see any scenario where they would continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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