No you couldn't. They don't have an intellectual dislike for Emirati wealth. It offends the liberals sensibilities. They are methodist preachers who believe in co-operatives and the inherent superiority of parliamentayr democracy. You don't understand politics. Some people are motivated by it. That's all they live for.
Nicolas Mcgeehan, David Conn, people like that are idealists. ALl of a sudden Manchester City are in their line of sight. There are also commercial reasons for the Guardian to be hostile to City because they have a business strategy based around active journalism whereby they want their readers to comment because once they do, they go back and back again.