Sportswashing is a totally fake concept. In the last decade the UAE has invested scores (probably hundreds) of billions of pounds in the UK economy. Apart from the Dubai tourism industry's major links to the UK there has been huge investment in our science, technology, renewable energy, and financial sectors. For example around 15 per cent of the finance sector in Dubai is operated by UK firms. Meanwhile the Saudis are one of our biggest trading partners with at least 10,000 jobs in the UK (mostly in Lancashire) dependent on BAE selling weapons. Why do we never see headlines about tourism washing, money washing, science washing, gun-washing etc etc?
Sheikh Mansour has personally tripled his money on his investment in Manchester City (even ignoring his huge profits from the Manchester science and property sectors). He is making lots of money. In fact he will soon be making more money from these new sectors than oil-related revenues which are in long-term decline.