Man City forge unusual success with crypto despite lasting questions

Manchester City's chairman issued an apology to their fans for the European Super League fiasco in 2021 but he would not apologise for the continued ambition to take the club forward.

"We will continue to push the envelope in everything we do. We want to be the best club in the world and to do so, we have to disrupt and we will disrupt," Khaldoon Al Mubarak told club media in a message intended to be heard far beyond the walls of the Etihad. "In being disruptive, sometimes you make mistakes.

"We have made mistakes in the past, we will make mistakes in the future, but we will do more right than wrong."

City will hope to be crowned as the best in the world on the pitch by the end of this year as they enter the Club World Cup as reward for finally winning the Champions League, while off it they are on course to smash the record for the highest revenue generated by a football club. Success breeds success, and the Treble winners have continued to improve deals since being very publicly charged with serious financial offences by the Premier League.

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One of those has been an improvement on their deal with cryptocurrency exchange company OKX, which is one of the club's top three sponsors after agreeing a £55m deal that will see them sponsor the sleeve of the men's and women's matchday shirts for the next three years. City connections with cryptocurrency suits the wish to disrupt given the volatile nature of that industry, but also invites criticism given the fair share of scandals that have already emerged from a relatively new sector of business; one of those involved the Blues, when a partnership with 3key had to be embarrassingly scrapped