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JP Quinn retweeted
This is not ‘just a football story’ but rather a story of a city-region in northern England aligning its economy into the orbit of an authoritarian state in the Gulf, accused of human rights abuses at home + terrible war crimes in Sudan.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
JP Quinn retweeted
This guy openly laughing about the suggestion that trying to sell off the World Cup without consultation would be a resigning issue. Zero remorse, zero contrition, close to zero chance he doesn't get re-elected as it stands. Great stuff.
JP Quinn retweeted
City fans of course aren't the ones who have cheated. What some are guilty of however, is defending their club and the owners to the hilt, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Back in the day I, and many other City fans, made it clear that for the #115 charges to be proven then a massive fraud carried over many years, overseen by multiple organisations and companies and headed by the people who run City Football Group would have to have been in place.
The idea that such fraud and false accounting would have happened was simply unimaginable.
It was absolutely crazy to think that accountants, auditors and the boards of many companies would be complicit in such actions still it baffles me and many City fans.
We have, and for now continue, to trust the people who run the Club as all of the above flies in the face of any logic.
There are now investigations into Manchester City by the auditor regulator -
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm93…
So Manchester City is now perhaps the most invertigated business since Enron?
Fans of other clubs are very annoyed, and I suspect City fans would be if the roles were reversed.
But as a fan base we have nothing to apologise for.
There are so many question marks hovering over the Club, and because of that us fans, that it becomes increasingly difficult to have a reasonable conversation on all of this.
But the people who run the Club tell us that they will beat these charges.
It wont be on a technicality it will be on a point of law.
If they lose on a point of law and their efforts to clear their name and the name of the Club we support fails then I can categorically say that most of the support base will be as shocked and disappointed as any fan or any club.
But what we wont do is apologise for being City fans.
THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
And until the moment of absolute guilt we City fans will lean into the stormy winds and make jokes, take the piss, rile opposition fans and generally make noise about being City fans.
If YOU don't like that then that seems like a YOU problem.
And what if the auditor regulator finds no evidence of illegality?
I go back to the start of this post, I cannot imagine such a massive fraud happening, it does not compute.
If they are guilty, then fuck them.
If they are innocent.......
In the meantime we City fans have one thing on our minds, supporting the players on the pitch.
JP Quinn retweeted
Newcastle MPs have been urged to stop accepting hospitality and gifts from the club amid concerns it has softened their criticism of the Saudi owners.
Dame Chi Onwurah's vociferous criticism has waned since taking almost £5,000 in freebies.
Link to my @CityAM column below 👇
JP Quinn retweeted
The Sheikh Who Coddles Warlords and Conquers Football
1/ 🚨 THREAD: Sheikh Mansour, owner of Manchester City, is not just a football tycoon — he’s the silent operator fueling wars in Sudan, Libya & Ethiopia.
A report by Dark Box reveals the UAE’s covert empire of warlords, drones & sportswashing.
2/ In 2023, just weeks before Sudan’s civil war, Mansour welcomed RSF leader Gen. Hamdan in Abu Dhabi.
Soon after, a covert pipeline of drones and weapons began flowing from UAE charities in Chad directly to RSF militias accused of genocide.
3/ The U.S. intercepted direct phone calls between Sheikh Mansour and General Hamdan.
Mansour — brother of UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed — played “handler,” laundering arms shipments under the cover of humanitarian aid.
4/ In Libya, Mansour has backed warlord Khalifa Haftar since 2015 — arming him in defiance of UN embargoes and allegedly funding Wagner Group mercenaries.
The UAE sees Haftar as a tool to crush opposition and gain access to strategic ports and resources.
5/ In Ethiopia, it was Mansour who sent drones that helped PM Abiy Ahmed shift the balance in a brutal civil war — at the cost of thousands of civilian lives.
6/ Mansour’s power doesn’t stop on the battlefield — it extends into financial fraud.
He was named in the $4.5B 1MDB scandal and used stolen Malaysian funds to pay off a $688M yacht. No charges. No consequences.
7/ Why haven’t you heard all this?
Because Mansour owns Manchester City, a $3.5B football empire used to distract, dazzle and rebrand the UAE’s global image.
Soft power hides hard crimes.
8/ Now City faces 130+ charges for financial fraud. The UK blocked his bid to buy the Daily Telegraph over press freedom concerns.
The mask is slipping.
9/ Sheikh Mansour is not just a football owner.
He’s the face of an authoritarian regime exporting war, corruption & propaganda — from the pitch to the battlefield.
🧨 Full report via Dark Box
the-darkbox.com/9ad0
JP Quinn retweeted
It's fascinating that the local newspaper terms our academic work on the Abu-Dhabi/MCR deal as 'ideological' but not the partnership between the powerful neoliberal growth regime and an authoritarian Emirate state, let alone its own claims of 'the truth'
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
JP Quinn retweeted
In 2016, the funding of Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour's 482ft superyacht, the Topaz, saw him named as one of the "co-conspirators" in a $4.5 billion scandal a U.S. judge called “one of the biggest financial crimes in the history of the world”.
In the international fallout, IPIC, the $70 billion sovereign wealth fund Mansour operated, was wound up, and a claim made in court that “the sheikh would not get out of bed for less than $100m” caused intense embarrassment.
Now, a decade on from what would become known as the 1MDB scandal, Mansour faces another reckoning.
📝 @jwhitey98
🔗 nyti.ms/4it5O3t
JP Quinn retweeted
“Hello and welcome to Newsnight. Tonight, we’re joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of Tax Justice UK. Faiza is an economist and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Faiza’s previous roles include Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children, and Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation. Faiza holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Manchester and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford University.
She is the author of a range of materials and publications covering the most salient social and economic debates of our times, including inequality, austerity, immigration, and social mobility. Faiza has over 15 years of experience researching the trends and consequences of inequality, as well as designing policies and campaigns to address the causes of inequality and exclusion. Her book, ‘Know your place: How society sets us up to fail and what we can do about it’ was published in July 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
To speak over her, we’ve invited Winston Marshall, a podcaster and former member of Mumford and Sons.
We hope you enjoy the programme.”
"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth."
"How's that going?"
Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen.
#Newsnight
JP Quinn retweeted
I work in a nursing home and this is the type of test we give to determine how advanced somebody's dementia is
JP Quinn retweeted
Jason Selvig: “Do you feel like your life is better than a year and a half ago?”
Trump supporter: “I do, yes”
JS: “In what way?”
TS: “Uhm, there’s more things being done. Uhm. Changing a lot of stuff that Biden had messed up”
JS: “Like what?”
TS: “Uhm, just a little, I can’t name a lot of stuff, but yeah haha”
JS: “What’s one thing that he’s changed that you’re really excited about?”
TS: “Uhm. I’m trying to think exactly what… gas prices definitely, yes”
JS: “Gas prices have changed, but they’re a little higher now than they were”
TS: “Yeah, hopefully they start going down more”
JP Quinn retweeted
Blimey. You think you’ve seen it all and then someone equates Man City in the Mansour era with Nelson Mandela. 😂
JP Quinn retweeted
We do not own a football club but if you punish this football club that we do not own we will punish you
Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5
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
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
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
JP Quinn retweeted
This is how I imagine an innocent party with irrefutable evidence proving their innocence would act.
BREAKING: The UAE is warning British Prime Minister Andy Burnham it will pull billions of pounds of investment the Government was seeking for a hi-tech hub between Oxford and Cambridge, billed as the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley, in retaliation for the guilty verdict against #ManCity.
[via @rmendick]
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
JP Quinn retweeted
Just a reminder for anyone interested in Abu Dhabi in Manchester. We conducted a forensic investigation into the deal with a range of findings that seem more relevant than ever....land deals, tax payments, offshore companies + 'sweetheart deals'
sheffield.ac.uk/management/n…
JP Quinn retweeted
The cope from some Man City fans is that the sham sponsorship income meant the club overstated revenue and so overpaid corporation tax.
So they are due a refund! Awesome!
Um, no. City paid *zero* corporation tax because they lost buckets of money.
The receipts:
JP Quinn retweeted
‘Manchester Life’s success has come at a high price for the little people who just happen to live in the city. Not only have the assets they owned been sold cheap, they have got little back. The nine developed sites have no social or affordable housing, which the council’s planning officers justified with statements such as: “There is already a high level of affordable housing in the immediate area.” The same council admitted earlier this year that nearly 4,000 of the city’s children sleep each night in temporary accommodation.
‘As for tax, the sums paid to the Exchequer seem risible. One of its main subsidiaries earned more than £26m in the five years to 2021, but, the researchers found, paid less than £10,000 in tax – an effective rate of just 4p on each £100 of revenue.
‘It is right to say that New Islington and Ancoats are vastly more pleasant areas than they were even five years ago – but the big question is who has won from redevelopment and who has lost. Putting hard numbers on that is tricky when so much of the information about Manchester Life – a venture using public assets and public subsidy with a public authority – is kept strictly private.’
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
JP Quinn retweeted
"The decisive ally to both of the clubs was the man whose job should have committed him to complete neutrality: UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino. The Football Leaks documents show just how unconscionably the top functionary sided with the newly wealthy clubs, both of which didn't just violate the Financial Fair Play rules. They held them in contempt.
During the FFP proceedings, Infantino met with club bosses from Paris and Manchester on several occasions for secret talks, even supplying them with confidential materials. He proposed compromises that he was unauthorized to propose. In short: He betrayed his own organization."
spiegel.de/international/wor…
JP Quinn retweeted
Poor - and biased - response from Andy Burnham on Manchester City being found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules by an Independent Commission.
He says “I can’t intervene *more* in the process,” which requires an explanation in itself.
Then offers commentary on previous proceedings he felt was unfair, AND states he wouldn’t want to lose the club’s owners who have “been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester. Obviously, the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.”
How was that force built?
And on the investment into the city itself, per a 2022 Guardian report: “Nine sites were sold to Sheikh Mansour at a fraction of their value, and well below what other plots nearby fetched. They were on leases lasting 999 years, well beyond the norm. And the fund shifted what had been public assets to companies registered in Jersey.
“That walk along the water from New Islington into Ancoats now passes blocks of privatised land owned in an offshore tax haven, which yields millions upon millions for a key member of the wealthy elite running a surveillance state halfway across the globe. One of the greatest cities in the world has sold itself to a senior figure in a brutal autocracy – and not even for a good price.”