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John Gunnison

Oct 6, 2026

7:52
On Abu Dhabi's perspective, how might its leadership interpret serious sanctions against Manchester City as an independent sporting decision, as a reputational humiliation, considering what it means to Abu Dhabi this was a, a state-sponsored project?
8:09
Yeah, absolutely.
8:10
And so let me start by talking about, a little bit more about what the team means to Abu Dhabi and why Abu Dhabi want the team and why it's so important to them and how they might be viewing this with that in mind.
8:21
So Abu Dhabi in the 2000s at a certain point realized that they needed to put a lot of effort and investment into building their global reputation, right? And this is for a few rather specific reasons that Abu Dhabi realized, and the UAE realized, that they had this reputational issue that they needed to affect.
8:42
So the first is that two of the September 11th hijackers were Emirati nationals.
8:48
And, and this is an extraordinary thing because unlike the 15 hijackers that were Saudi nationals, being an Emirati national is something that is rare and an elite, you know, component.
9:00
Like, it's, it's not very many Emirati nationals, and almost all of them are multimillionaires.

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