Khaldoun Al Mubarak: With the vision of Mansour bin Zayed… we invested and were patient and continued our path

Abu Dhabi (Etihad)

His Excellency Khaldoun Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Manchester City, spoke in a video interview with the club’s official channel, about the club’s achievement in achieving the English Premier League title for the year 2022, the club’s ambitions, its plan to strengthen its lines, and the development process of the City Football Academy And about the last match on the Premier League table against Aston Villa and entitlement to the Premier League title, His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak said: “I thought 10 years ago that we would never witness an event like this again, or rather another 90 minutes of this awesomeness, but the events of the last match and the match are similar. What the club played 10 years ago was really amazing. This match with Aston Villa, this ninety minutes and the last 15 minutes of it in particular will remain engraved in our minds.”
He added, “The way we dealt with this challenge, and the anticipation we lived in, was tremendous. The players’ personality, presence and determination were behind this great victory. It is a truly special event and will remain in my memory.”
His Excellency continued his talk about strengthening the City lines with football talents: “Haaland may be the best player in the world at this age, holding the number 9. When we look at the next ten or fifteen years, we will realize that the decision to invest in this striker was right and in place.”

And he added: “What I want to say is that Haaland is an exceptional and talented striker, and I think he was the focus of the whole world’s attention and that the best teams and clubs in the world wish to include him in their ranks, and we are very happy with Haaland’s decision to join the Manchester City team.” Then he continued: “And we found Alvarez.” One of the brightest and most talented young strikers in South America.” On the development process of the City Football Academy, he said: “Pushing the academy to continue the process took a long time. Such matters take years. We have invested, been patient and continued our path, and as you have noticed, during the past two years, the quality of talent that the academy has demonstrated. It is the talents that we had hoped for and that were part of the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, owner of the club, from the first day of His Highness’s decision to invest in the club, which was in fact an investment in a team capable of continuing to achieve the best. In the light of a highly distinguished academy, we are always keen to develop and develop it so that we will eventually have a distinguished group of talents that we will continue to attract from all over the world, in addition to the talents that the Academy continues to nurture and develop.” His Excellency added: “I am confident that the next stage will witness More players join the club, and we will continue to work on developing the team in all areas that require it. Every season some players leave, we have to continue to breathe life into the team and provide it with new competencies.”
He concluded his speech: “We won the English Premier League and there is no doubt that the happiness of everyone who rushed to celebrate the victory on Sunday night after the match. But it is only a few hours, and I, Ferran, Pep Guardiola and Chiki talk about how to develop the team and about our preparations for the next season. Thus, the celebration of winning did not distract us from the future, but rather we quickly turned the page of the present in order to look forward to the future.”