Airline’s float could be booster for City

A PLAN to float

Etihad Airways on the stock exchange could be good news for Manchester City in their bid to beat the 115 Premier League charges hanging over the club.

German publication Der Spiegel claims that the Emirati airline was paying just £8million of their official £67.5m obligation to City

– and that the rest was met by disguised equity funding from the club’s Abu Dhabi owners.

That would break financial regulations put in place by both the Premier League and UEFA.

It has been mooted that the company could launch an Initial Public Offering on MANCHESTER

CITY have agreed a partnership deal with Italian fashion brand CP Company.

Pep Guardiola and his players will be kitted out by the designer label when they travel on away trips in the Champions League next season after the Treble winners sealed a lucrative new deal. the stock exchange later this year – just as the threeman Independent Commission appointed by the Premier League to examine the charges levied against City, who maintain their innocence, is expected to make a judgement.

The IPO process would involve Etihad allowing full disclosure of their accounts.

Stock market insiders believe it’s unlikely that Etihad would be willing to grant access into their financial affairs and corporate practices if it would uncover a smoking gun to prove fraud had been committed.

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