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Andy Burnham admits to ‘concern’ if Manchester City lose their owners after guilty verdicts

Andy Burnham claps on stage at the end of the Labour Party conference
Andy Burnham has thanked the City Football Group for investment in Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Andy Burnham has said he would be “really concerned” to lose Manchester City’s owners as a result of the club being found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League rules.

On the day that the Independent Football Regulator confirmed it has powers to investigate the suitability of the Abu Dhabi United Group to own an English club after the damning judgment of an independent commission regarding £900m of sham contracts, the prime minister praised City’s owners for their investment of billions of pounds into Manchester.

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