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Khaldoon Al mubarak

CEO, Mubadala

Search every verified Khaldoon Al mubarak interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of Manchester City and CEO of Mubadala, conducted a series of end-of-season interviews in June 2026. He discussed the departure of manager Pep Guardiola after a decade, describing him as a friend and stating that Guardiola "changed English football" and left his "thumbprint" on the game. Al Mubarak confirmed that the club had gone through a "thoughtful and structured" process to find a successor and would announce a new manager soon. He later addressed the appointment of Enzo Maresca, calling him a "very special individual" and an "excellent fit" for the team, noting Maresca's prior history with the club and his own evolving philosophy. Al Mubarak also commented on the women's team's Super League title win, describing it as "perfectly timed" and praising the new training facility as setting a "new standard" for the women's game. He reiterated that there is "no intention to sell" Manchester City, framing the club as a long-term investment that has grown in value. On the ongoing Premier League legal case, Al Mubarak stated he would not comment until a ruling is issued, after which he said he would "say everything I wanted to say for the last three years."

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“Let me be as consistent as I've always been. Until we have a ruling, can't say much. Once we have a ruling, believe me, Chris, we're going to have a wonderful sit down together and I'll say everything I wanted to say for the last three years.”

“Sheh Mansour when he looks at this club he sees it as a long-term investment not just Mansour of course and the shareholders who have invested in this club over the years buy into the vision that we're going to invest in something that's going to grow in value over time. Of course, his highness has no intention of uh of of selling this business, but over time uh new shareholders come in at different value points that”

“You use the word cost when when you refer to infrastructure. I use the word investment. Investment generates revenue, generates return. cost is just a a negative on your on your balance sheet. Uh everything we we're do here is is we invest we invest and maybe the P&L for that particular year like in this year it can be a negative but that's just a time element. Uh ultimately it's about revenue generation ultimately i”

“I don't personally buy into the bubble argument. I think demand significantly exceeds supply and that trajectory — across data centers, GPUs, chips and energy — will remain behind the curve at least until 2030 and likely to 2035.”

“When we invest, I have something you don't have: I don't have to deal with that quarter-to-quarter pressure. I get judged on performance over three years, five years, ten years, and that allows a different, more patient investment decision-making lens.”

“In May last year the United States and the UAE had an AI cooperation agreement that set the foundations to build out one of the largest AI clusters outside of the United States here in the UAE — a 5‑gigawatt AI factory, 'Stargate', on a 19 square kilometer site, and phase one of 200 megawatts is now underway.”

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