2026-10-05 · BBC News
🔮 Last week, it was announced the club had been found guilty of 115 charges, including some around a so-called disguised funding scheme, which was said to have seen the club's owners topping up sponsorship and commercial deals with their own funding running to more than £800m.
When asked last week about potential fallout from the City charges, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who was metropolitan mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 to 2026, said he would be "really concerned" if the owners were to pull out of the club.
He added: "They've been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester and the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is." assertive
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