Khaldoon al-Mubarak: the tightrope walker who made rare misstep over City charges
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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 clubNo 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. He was eight when his father, ambassador Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz al-Mubarak, left the family Paris apartment for work on 9 February 1984 and was assassinated on the street…
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