Khaldoon Al Mubarak branded Manchester City an "economic machine" after seeing the club post record revenues, while insisting the financial results showed the City Football Group continued to be focused on growth.
27.05.2024 - 04:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
If Manchester was temporarily red on Saturday after Manchester United's FA Cup final win, it was firmly returned to Blue on Sunday evening as Manchester City paraded their silverware from another successful season.
A sea of blue and white awaited City's players at Cathedral Gardens as they boarded their open-top buses for what is becoming an annual end-of-season parade down Deansgate. When asked about the fans infront of him, star striker Erling Haaland simply replied: "F------ hell." Indeed.
24 hours earlier, City players had sunk to the turf at Wembley having run out of steam in the final game of the season. The worst part was not that it was the FA Cup final, ending the hopes of adding a historic double to the fourth title in a row. But that it was United.
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That put a dampener on Sunday's parade, as did the threats of thunderstorms, but the torrential downpour of last year's biblical treble parade did not happen again. In fact, everything was a little lower-key than last year.
Even the three trophies City were parading were a smaller treble than the main one - although the Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup are still new titles to show off. And Jack Grealish, a veteran headline-maker from these parades, looked fresher than previous years while still enjoying himself, of course.
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Khaldoon Al Mubarak branded Manchester City an "economic machine" after seeing the club post record revenues, while insisting the financial results showed the City Football Group continued to be focused on growth.
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