The UAE has threatened to pull billions of pounds of investment out of the UK unless Manchester City are cleared over financial misconduct allegations, a report has claimed.
Andy Burnham is under pressure to cool relations with the Middle Eastern country after he said he would be ‘really concerned’ if the club’s Abu Dhabi owners decided to sell up.
But the Prime Minister was forced into an embarrassing U-turn after the remarks as Downing Street later insisted that no football team was ‘above the rules’.
It comes after Premier League team Manchester City were found to have cooked the books to the tune of £900million
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