Khaldoon Al Mubarak: “In the top 10 transfers of all time, City has no players in that, not a single one. People with glass homes shouldn’t be throwing rocks. I’m happy to talk if the conversation is about facts but once we start talking about theories. No time for that.”
“Figo, Zidane. These jumps in transfers, where did they happen? You look back at the history of La Liga, a league dominated by two clubs. Mr Tebas should look back at the history and distortion that has happened throughout the ages.”
“He talks about how we distorted the market? There is a hypocrisy in this statement that is ironic. Number one, let’s look at the Spanish league, the time of breaking records on player acquisitions. I mean, who started that?”
“The reality is, we didn’t buy the most expensive player, the most expensive goalkeeper, the most expensive midfielder, the most expensive striker. Let’s look at facts.”
“With success there is a certain level of jealousy, envy, whatever you call it. You know when United dominated the league for many years, they know what they had to deal with for so many years. It’s not easy for our competition, we know that.”
“I know people don’t want to defend Manchester City – but for God’s sake start defending this league.”
Khaldoon Al Mubarak on Javier Tebas’ comments regarding oil money: ““There’s something deeply wrong in bringing ethnicity into the conversation. This is just ugly. I think the way he is combining teams because of ethnicity. I find that very disturbing to be honest.”