Just hours after the Premier League charged Manchester City with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules in early 2023, the football club's chair had an important date in his diary. Khaldoon al-Mubarak, who is also chief executive of Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign investment fund, was due to see Jeremy Hunt, then the UK's finance minister. The meeting was part of a broader effort to rebuild confidence less than five months after the disaster of former prime minister Liz Truss's unfunded mini- Budget. Treasury officials noted at the start that the subject of football should be avoided. Upset at the treatment of his club, Mubarak raised the topic anyway, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting. He described it as an attack on an important Abu Dhabi asset by an unregulated cartel and an affront to some of the emirate's most respected companies, one of the people added. Hunt stressed that the Premier League was independent and pivoted the conversation back to investment. But Mubarak's pointed comments made it clear that the two issues were not easily separated.   submitted by   /u/ChiefLeef22 [link]   [comments]