Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak looks back on dramatic Premier League triumph and forward to a bright future

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak has described the club’s 3-2 win over Aston Villa, which wrapped up a fourth Premier League title win in five years, as a special memory that he would “never forget.”

Speaking to the club’s official channel, he also described new signing from Borussia Dortmund Erling Haaland as the “best number nine in the world” and revealed that, within hours of the title win, plans for next season were already being discussed behind the scenes.

Here are some of the highlights from the interview.

On the dramatic Premier League finale:

I thought 10 years ago we would never see this again, or I thought I would never live through 90 minutes like that, 90 minutes like 10 years ago. But to be honest, this goes very, very close. This game, Aston Villa, the last 15 minutes but the whole 90 minutes stand out. The way we dealt with the challenge, suffered, but then had the personality, had the attitude to pull this incredible victory. A really, really special memory that I’ll never forget.

On signing Erling Haaland:

We have in Haaland arguably the best number nine in the world at the right age. When you look at the next 10 to 15 years in Haaland, we have invested in that striker for the future. I mean he is a very, very unique, incredibly talented striker that I think the whole world has been looking at and I would say every big team in the world wanted to join and we’re delighted, absolutely delighted that Haaland chose to join Manchester City.

On Manchester City’s academy:

It took a while to get the academy going; these things take years. We invested, we were patient, we kept at it, and now you’ve seen over the last couple of years, the academy is producing the type of talent that we, that