New PL Commercial rule passed (pg4) | City rumoured to be questioning the legality

Tricky_Trev said:
If one of the abstainers had voted no, it wouldn’t have been approved. There normally needs to be 14 clubs saying yes, but with 2 abstaining they only needed 12 as the rule is two-thirds of those not abstaining have to approve. Fuck.
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Surely you don’t take part in a vote if you consider it illegal, your legitimising their argument.
 
Dribble said:
We've just won three fuckin PL titles on the trot, the last culminating with us completing a treble in addition to becoming European Super Cup & World Club Champions, & our sponsorship is being questioned? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

We're the most successful football team in Europe, & we've won everything there is to win & our sponsorship levels STILL aren't even the highest in football, but yet the Red Top Mafia & Spuds are pushing the PL to restrict UAE sponsorship?

I can see this move being more aimed at stopping Newcastle from becoming City 2.0, but where City are concerned, this is the thin end of the wedge.

Let's say we have a barren season, who's to say the Red Top Mafia & Spuds won't demand our sponsorship revenue shouldn't be looked at & massively revised downwards, as it'd represent a fairer value?

As I said, this is aimed more at Newcastle, BUT if you connect the dots, you can see the long-term aim will be to neuter City too. Bastards!
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So when the fuck are utd getting their sponsorship re-valued down to represent a fairer value on how fucking shite they are?
 
Tricky_Trev said:
If one of the abstainers had voted no, it wouldn’t have been approved. There normally needs to be 14 clubs saying yes, but with 2 abstaining they only needed 12 as the rule is two-thirds of those not abstaining have to approve. Fuck.
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City will be one of the abstaining clubs.


It was reported ages ago when the PL rushed through the last set of rules after Newcastle got bought that City had been advised the new rule was not legally sound and had thus abstained.

This is a more extreme version of the same rules so City’s position will have been the same.
 
dadnlad said:
only yesterday fifa said want to eliminate racism from all football good luck with that
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Maybe that's the goal of the Saudis?

Give them their due the way they are taking over boxing by stealth they are slowly removing some of the shady practices because none of the big time fuckers involved prefer Riyadh apartments rather than their justice system.
 
Phil1 said:
It was much more fun following City when it was about the football and a business degree wasn’t warranted.
Seriously, there’s as many threads these days talking about fucking finances as there are about what’s happening on the pitch.
It’s depressing.
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I sort of agree but nowhere nearly as depressing as the dawning realisation that you are not going to reach 40 points.
 
Do we know PRECISELY what this rule change involves? It would appear very likely that it introduces the notion of "associated parties", but we don't know exactly what this term means. We suspect, but again don't know whether it is as clearly discriminatory as we believe. It is claimed that City are threatening a legal challenge but again we don't know. It could be Newcastle, or, indeed, any other PL club that sees the regulation as anti-competitive, because the claim that a level playing field can be established or maintained through tampering with sponsorship is nonsense. But I would suggest that if a legal challenge is actually threatened the club in question must be very sure of its ground.
 
There's usually always a leak regarding who's voted for what so it'll be interesting to see the split.

From the very early leaks City have always questioned the legality of proposals discussing limiting commercial potential.

It seems the Premier League are taking all sorts of risks to appease certain clubs and avoid independent regulation.
 
The Glazers turned down 6 Billion.
Their futuristic vision must see themselves making much more, but how when we are hovering up trophies and prize money?

Oh wait a minute....
 
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