Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Superchat from Hermit the Frog.

Where is Herzl's press tour after the City win? Oh, God.

And that melt

Jim

Fine.

But from a football governance perspective, It should absolutely be not affecting like the dude I spoke to this evening.

It should be affecting Khaldun and Ferran Soriano and Omar Barada and Sheikh Mansour and all the people who actually made the decisions.

And it kind of hit me actually chatting to someone who was a City fan who's been going since the 90s that this is going to affect the fans.

I'm trying to say, for instance, when you look at Man City and the entire case that they have, it's still ongoing.

I mean, oh my God, the love and the support that all the male fans, Like, you know, show Khaldun al-Mubarak is so exceptional.

Like, at the stands, we are with you, Khaldun.

The posters, like, nobody's there bringing up, you know, everything that we need to consider.

It's, you know, this is like, you have like the... a citadel of the richest people coming together in one room.

And I think that in itself is quite amazing.

And with these funds, like, you know, we constantly discuss very few figures here, right? Whether you have His Excellency Khaldun al-Mubarak or His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon, but there are new protagonists that are emerging from these funds.

So you have Ibrahim Ajami, the head of ventures at Mubadala Capital, is actually preparing to leave the beloved investment firm next year to launch his own venture capital fund, NOHA.

Barada was obviously a senior figure at Manchester City for a number of years, though he may choose to sort of downplay that right now.

But ultimately, even then, the real power, the real decision makers were people like Khaldun Al Mubarak, Ferran Soriano and Chiqui Begoristan.

And obviously, for large amounts of that time, they just had one manager in Pep Guardiola.

They didn't need to find another one.

No permanent friends, no permanent enemies.

So you and Khaldun, a new healthy level, Khaldun al-Mubarak, obviously, who leads Mubarak to the Holy Company, healthy level of new competition?

Respect.

Let's leave it there.

There's every sign.

that Abu Dhabi and the people who represent Abu Dhabi at Manchester City, particularly Khaldun, who's a brilliant politician and manipulator, will fight this to the very death.

I think it's nonsense saying that the 12 weeks will be adhered to because City are already saying they want every single charge looked at again in detail, separately, in a separate part of the process.

They're talking about another two to three year process for this appeal alone, the first appeal.

He was there just a couple of months later.

This time it was having dinner with Khaldun Al Mubarak, the chairman of Manchester City.

And then a month after that, there was another £700 freebie.

This time it was to see Ed Sheeran.

I just could imagine, and who knows with all the sideshow, the charge and everything going on, I would imagine it's just a nicer place to work.

I would imagine his relationship with Khaldun, Ferran Soriano...

the technical staff around him and all that is just so much better now than it was at Chelsea in what was a really toxic environment.

And again, we have no idea what it's like behind the scenes at City at the moment, given everything that's going on.

But just from what we've seen on the surface, what's been drip fed to us as fans from the way that Khaldun acts behind the scenes, the way that Ferran Soriano acts, just the general environment at the CFA, I would imagine he's He won't be as big of a dick as he was at Chelsea, I think essentially is what I'm saying, because I think he's probably just in a better place physically and spiritually.

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