Inside Ferran Soriano’s role in Man City scandal: Premier League sources reveal how ‘aloof’ Spaniard ‘patronises’ other clubs, how his fingerprints are on key documents and why he left some Etihad staff feeling like outsiders

In the small talk preceding one of the few interviews he has ever granted to the British press, Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano joked to us about how he didn’t need to impress journalists as much in this role as he did in Spain, during five years as an executive at Barcelona.

The Spanish press were his route to Barca’s members, or socios, who vote the club president in every four years, Soriano explained, in a hotel meeting room overlooking New York. ‘But in Britain, you’re less interested in people like me.’

Little did he know. In the Copenhagen auditorium where

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