How can you be self sustaining mate when you have £200 milion of commercial deals where up to June 2022 have 14 commercial deals all linked to Mansour and Abu Dhabi royal family, and of those 14 commercial deals owned by your owner and his family, your chairman of your club khaldoon is chairman of the board of 13 of those companies that sponsor your club, your club added 8 of those 14 companies in January and February.
Of your commercial revenues in your last turnover you had £270 odd milion, with the addition of those 8 owner linked companies your commercial revenues will be closer to £350 million in next year's turnover results.
The ones we know of are Puma at £65 milion a year, Nexus tires at £9 milion a year and Etihad deal reported at the CAS trial being £140 milion a year from 2018 onwards, when you told UEFA in 2014 after your first ffp violations was a 10 year contract £400 milion contract at £40 million a year that somehow a airline thats had the biggest losses in aviation history has averaged losing $2 billion per year since 2013 can find money to sponsor a football club at £140 million per year as reported at the CAS trial that two years after inking that Etihad deal that it got doubled to £80 milion and 2018 to £140 milion, amazing a ten year contract at 400 million is actually really closer to 1.2 billion over 10 years, guess that can happen when your owner owns the airline.
When your owners don't sponsor your club with multiple commercial deals that prop up your turnover then you can tell us all what a fantastic self sustaining club you are, but using it willingly when you have 14 companies in your commercial portfolio that are all connected to TWO investment vehicles of the Abu Dhabi investment Authority and Mubadala Investment Fund then it's just laughable AF.
Definition of self-sustaining
Maintaining or able to maintain oneself or itself by independent effort.