City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

skillman said:
Interesting, this. If we've chosen to launch legal action, we'll be comfortable being able to prove what Stefan is saying here.
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Not sure. Think he is being far more narrow with it, at pace probably, than the article itself suggests. City are reportedly claiming loss due to the delay to deals by the uncertainty caused, which is different to an outright loss of a rejected deal.

How that works out legally, I have no idea, but pointing out Stefan and the article are talking about two somewhat different things.
 
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denislawsbackheel said:
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Concerned a little by the timing but GTFI City.
 
strudelslol said:
Am I reading too much into the timing of the 115 charges hearing in November and the club wanting a response from Pep regarding his contract around the same time? Seems a strange time to announce either a departure or an extension without the 2 being linked.
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You are reading too much into it.

Pep has been signing extensions in November since the dawn of time.
 
domalino said:
It's one of those things where even if you win you're the bad guy.

People think related companies should pay fair sponsorships, that's clearly the majority opinion. They don't really care if the process by which the PL achieves that stands up to english law, they just want the end result.

So the absolute best case scenario is we win, the PL says "sorry we tried to bring in rules but City stopped it" and then it's our fault when Aramco pay Newcastle £350m/year.

Or we win, and then we use that judgment as a weapon against the PL. "Lets see what else we can dismantle" etc. or even because it's in 2 parts, we could win and then use the upcoming award of damages as a weapon. Effective - but not the actions of an innocent party.
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It’s Not about “related”, Dom, but I expect the clubs have not got this straight.
 
domalino said:
It's one of those things where even if you win you're the bad guy.

People think related companies should pay fair sponsorships, that's clearly the majority opinion. They don't really care if the process by which the PL achieves that stands up to english law, they just want the end result.

So the absolute best case scenario is we win, the PL says "sorry we tried to bring in rules but City stopped it" and then it's our fault when Aramco pay Newcastle £350m/year.

Or we win, and then we use that judgment as a weapon against the PL. "Lets see what else we can dismantle" etc. or even because it's in 2 parts, we could win and then use the upcoming award of damages as a weapon. Effective - but not the actions of an innocent party.
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It depends what you mean by fair? . Is it fair that utd can get a much bigger shirt sponsorship or Chervrolet deal that got the exec fired.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Concerned a little by the timing but GTFI City.
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Apparently this was back in Feb.. but it's just come out.

I'm not worried.. 2 simple reasons.

1. I love City
2. Khaldoon doesn't do stuff out of desperation. He crafts a plan.

It may work or it may not work, but he's clearly thought it out.

Now if this has happened the week after 115 charges.. it may be reactionary but it's evident this is something to do with the PL trying to kill our sponsorship deals and obviously they must have given City the ammunition to go after them in court.
 
domalino said:
It's one of those things where even if you win you're the bad guy.

People think related companies should pay fair sponsorships, that's clearly the majority opinion. They don't really care if the process by which the PL achieves that stands up to english law, they just want the end result.

So the absolute best case scenario is we win, the PL says "sorry we tried to bring in rules but City stopped it" and then it's our fault when Aramco pay Newcastle £350m/year.

Or we win, and then we use that judgment as a weapon against the PL. "Lets see what else we can dismantle" etc. or even because it's in 2 parts, we could win and then use the upcoming award of damages as a weapon. Effective - but not the actions of an innocent party.
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Equally though, we don't know that City haven't spent 3 years putting a case together, as the Premier league did with us. We did abstain as we felt APT rules weren't legal.
 
Red scouse fans being offended on Everton and forrest fans behalf????

I am sure if we are challenging the prems financial rules it also helps all these clubs that are being punished for having money and notnbeimg able to spend it.

so no suprise the scousers are the ones moaning
 
I'm sure we don't know the background as to why we're doing this, but the phrase "tyranny of the majority" is not some made up bullshit from the Times, its not a great look.
 
SSL2 said:
the only thing he really touches on is the fact that since february, the PL's legal team have had to shift their focus from the 115 charges case to this one.

'clearly a tactic' the source said.
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I think it is a bit more than a tactic. This is City going nuclear and this case will be much bigger than the ongoing 115 charges. For starters it includes up to a dozen other PL clubs directly and we have accused at least one rival club Director of discriminatory behaviour.
 
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KS55 said:
It’s Not about “related”, Dom, but I expect the clubs have not got this straight.
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Exactly - "related parties" is an established accountancy definition which is widely accepted whilst "associated parties" is a PL construct that they dreamt up. And that would appear to be the basis of the City claim - i.e. that it is just something dreamt up to hurt certain clubs.
 
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