Should Andy Burnham intervene in the Manchester City Premier League case to protect investment?
An independent commission found Manchester City guilty of most of 115 Premier League financial breaches from 2009-2018, including sham contracts that inflated revenue by over £900 million. The club has appealed, with sanctions pending that could impact ownership. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, former mayor of Greater Manchester, praised the Abu Dhabi owners' investment but said the process must remain independent and he cannot intervene.
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What message does that send? Break every financial rule you want, as long as your Gulf owners build a few tram stops and fund local regeneration.
He already said too much before backtracking. it's an insult to even consider it. It would be out and out corruption to do so. Call me a cynic, but I suspect it's going on behind the scenes already as the City chairman apparently had a private meeting with the business secretary Jonathan Reynolds on 14th September, not long before the news of the verdicts was announced.
Absolutely not. This looks like fraud and should be a matter of criminal investigation.
The case is between the PL and Cheat City to resolve, plus potentially HMRC. The PM should focus on his job