UK PM Burnham to release details of dealings with Manchester City

“I will quite clearly put out there everything that I have done working with them in my previous role as Mayor of Greater Manchester.”

Burnham, who served as the mayor from May 2017 to June 2026, said his contacts with the club were not recent.

“None of it is recent, actually, in terms of the meetings I had. I only had one significant meeting, actually, and that was in 2021,” he said.

Burnham expressed concern in September that City’s owners could sell the club after the guilty verdict, saying they had been “a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester” and “in turning the club into a global force”.