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Khaldoon al-Mubarak: the tightrope walker who made rare misstep over City charges

Manchester City’s chair is key to the project of making Abu Dhabi a secure world power but his next move may be the sale of the club. No one better understands the precarious tightrope Abu Dhabi walks when it tries to balance its relationships with western Europe while weighing the complex geopolitics of the Gulf region than Manchester City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak.

— The Guardian — Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

7 outlets4 languages4 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Marca

ES · ES

Followed by

6

outlets in 3 languages over 1 d 15 h.

Our read

Corroborated (2)

2 of 3 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 1 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 3 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 7 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

7 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min

    MarcaES · ESBroke it

    Guardiola volverá al Etihad

  2. +13 h 55 min
  3. +16 h 20 min
  4. +19 h 18 min
  5. +20 h 28 min
  6. +1 d 2 h
  7. +1 d 15 h

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.