Man City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak responds to Premier League charges and promises more

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak promised to air his "very strong views" on the Premier League charges the club faces after the legal process has been completed.

Treble winners City were hit by a string of incredibly serious charges in February by the Premier League, accusing them of misrepresenting their finances for almost a decade of football as well as failling to co-operate with an investigation in to that. The Blues have denied all of the alleged rule breaches and want to clear their name, although the unprecedented nature and scale of the charges mean a decision may not come for years.

Pep Guardiola has been the only senior figure to comment on the charges in the four months since they were announced, but Al Mubarak briefly addressed the issue in his end-of-season interview with club media. While he did not go into detail, the chairman did say he would be more candid at the end of the battle.

"Obviously I can’t talk about them unfortunately for legal reasons," he said on the day after the Champions League final. "And what I would typically always do is comment after, so I think we’re going to go through, we’re going through the legal process.

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"These are proceedings that take whatever time they take and when we’re done, we’ll have a conversation. I’ll give you my very blunt views, I promise you that. I have very strong views on that, but I am going to be unfortunately very restrained today.”

While the charges have not been proven, many have already made their mind up. A Yougov survey shortly after found that three in every four people thought the Blues were likely to have committed what they were accused of,