@etihad Questions following your press release on, and threat of legal action over, “The Premier League's public communication of the [Independent] commission's findings”. 1) Documentary evidence of “the Disguised Funding Scheme” which the IC found Etihad to be a part of has been in the public domain since 2018. The Premier League charged Manchester City in 2023. Those charges were not heard until late 2024. As City's most prominent sponsor why did you not ask the club to be a witness at the IC? 2) What is the total quantum of Etihad's sponsorship deals with Manchester City since the airline entered its first commercial deal with the club ? Is it over £800million? 3) Is Etihad's position that all of the Etihad sponsorship income that Manchester City declared to the Premier League and UEFA was paid to City directly and entirely out of Etihad’s own funds? And that not a single penny came from Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ADUG or any Abu Dhabi government entity? 3) The IC states that Manchester City claimed “that AD Sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the AD Government towards their liability to pay the Recorded Sponsorship Fees. Such applications had been granted, and financial assistance had been provided to the AD Sponsors by the AD Government via the CPC. In each case the level of financial assistance provided by the AD Government to the relevant Sponsor had been in the amount that the PL wrongly contended represented a Tagged Sum from ADUG.” Is it true that some of Etihad's sponsorship payments were funded by the Abu Dhabi Government via the Crown Prince's Court (CPC)? 4) If so, why did Etihad’s CEO testify to CAS as follows? ‘Neither [Mansour], nor his private investment vehicle ADUG, nor any entity on their behalf, has funded or reimbursed the sponsorship obligations of Etihad under the sponsorship agreements. The sponsorship obligations were paid out of Etihad’s own funds as described above. I was PCEO throughout the relevant period and I would have known if any arrangement had existed for the funding or reimbursement of the sponsorship fees paid by Etihad to MCFC, as alleged by UEFA, which I did not.' 5) Why did Etihad make the following submission to the US Government in 2015? ‘The assertion that the Abu Dhabi government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false.’ 6) Is Etihad’s objection to the published findings of the IC? Or is to the testimony and arguments made to the IC by your long-term commercial partners and/or your owners?