The latest allegations about Manchester City’s sponsorships, transfers and contracts – The Athletic

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For a small word, “via” appears to do a lot of lifting in some of the emails staff in Manchester City’s finance department sent each other between 2012 and 2016.

Look up that particular preposition in a dictionary and you will find that it means “by way of”, “through” or “by means of”; so, for example, many City fans arrive at the Etihad Stadium via Manchester Piccadilly railway station, or City opened the scoring via a deflection.

But, on Thursday, German news outlet Der Spiegel published several more examples of how “via” might be used in relation to the Premier League champions.

“Additional £15m cash from Etisalat to be booked 11/12 to be funded via ADUG…additional PL win bonuses for 11/12 from Etihad £5m, ADTA £1m and Aabar £1m — all to be funded via ADUG…additional £15m cash from Etisalat for 12/13 to be funded paid in Q3 and funded via ADUG,” wrote their then-chief financial officer Graham Wallace to City directors Simon Pearce and John MacBeath in 2012.

Or a reference to “funding via Abu Dhabi Partners” totaling £62.5 million that feeds into a column titled “Total Shareholding Funding” for the 2012-13 Cash Funding Summary, with the same number expected, via the same source, in 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Or another 2012 email from City’s then head of finance Andrew Widdowson to Pearce and Wallace clarifying “the amount of cash that we need lined up from the shareholder in January to be paid through the relevant partners…£27m via Etihad…£15m via Etisalat” .

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