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Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City FC seeks to end limits on sponsorship deals


Issue 1188 - 06 Jun 2024 | 1 minute read

An arbitration hearing between the English Premier League and championship-winning football club Manchester City FC is due to start on 10 June over a policy designed to prevent clubs signing artificially inflated commercial deals with companies linked to their owners. It is only one element in a complicated saga surrounding Abu Dhabi’s financing of a prized soft power asset.

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