Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak issues new update on Premier League’s 115 charges | OneFootball

Khaldoon Al Mubarak – the Manchester City chairman – has issued his latest comment surrounding the club’s 115 charges issued by the Premier League in February 2023.

The update arrives at the end of a season that brought another FA Cup and Carabao Cup double to the Etihad Stadium, with English football awaiting a resolution to the legal saga.

The independent panel concluded a highly secretive, 12-week evidentiary hearing at London’s International Dispute Resolution Centre back in December 2024, with no conclusion or verdict to the matter since.

Despite industry speculation that a verdict would land earlier this year, or 12 months prior, both the Premier League and Etihad Stadium executives have seemingly been kept in the dark without update.

The delay has been heavily attributed to the vast scale of the investigation, which spans a nine-year window between 2009 and 2018, encompassing probing into corporate sponsorship reporting, commercial revenue structures, and historical player-manager remuneration.

What has Khaldoon Al Mubarak said on the 115 charges?

Now, speaking during the second part of his annual end-of-season interview, Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak concluded his latest conversation by being quizzed on the charges issued by the Premier League for alleged breaches of financial rules in February 2023.

“Let me be as consistent as I’ve always been; until we have a ruling I can’t say much,” Al Mubarak insisted.

However, he continued, “Once we have a ruling, believe me, we’re going to have a wonderful sit-down together and I’ll say everything I’ve wanted to say for the last three years,” before ending with a laugh to himself.

What next for Man City and the 115 charges?

The chairman’s defiant sign-off will inject a wave of confidence through the club just as the sporting world pivots its attention towards the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America.

Rumours across sport circles suggest that a definitive ruling from the independent panel is imminent, and could land before the brand new 2026/27 season kicks-off across Europe throughout August.

Should the independent commission entirely clear Manchester City of all wrongdoing, it will represent a seismic, historic validation for an administration that has consistently maintained they hold a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence.”

However, if the tribunal finds the club guilty, the fallout could range from points deductions to relegation from the Premier League – casting a dramatic shadow over the incoming era under manager Enzo Maresca following Pep Guardiola’s departure.