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

[supercity88]

Not me - the Super League is even more anti-competitive than current regulations.

I don't think any football fan in this country should want the Super League. But there should also be a recognition that other than relegation and promotion the PL is already becoming in essence a Super League with the gap between it and the Championship growing more and more and making it harder for newly promoted teams to compete.

We need an independent regulator.

Fans of other clubs need to wake up to the fact this isn't good against evil (City). The other owners want to preserve the status quo and their end goal will be to create a system whereby their returns are maximised and their investment doesn't have to be significant to get it. They will want a spending cap to help protect them from fans calling for more expenditure. They'll want an end to promotion and relegation. They'll want games abroad.

 

[bluemoon32]

Do we have a PR team at City?
If so, what year do they start work?

 

[HelloCity]

Doesn't look good? What sort of crap are you saying there? It looks fucking brilliant. We're standing up to the bent bastards.

Unfortunately he’s been brainwashed into believing we’re destroying the PL and removing all financial regulations.

He should probably go and support Utd or Liverpool instead if he’s that easily swayed.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

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Just had to like that again..lolz

 

[M12Blue]

Yes but it was one person at one club (we don't know the City are referring to the same incidents) so easy to dismiss by the Premier League as being irrelevant to the rules City are challenging

Agree, I just meant I think if a racist card is being played by the club, it is justified

 

[Ric]

Stefan! Fair play to him, but far too much stock placed in him imo.

By the way - I know we're using the very brilliant Paul Harris in relation to the 115. Are Monckton Chambers leading this too? If so - get extra popcorn in!

Yeah, we're being represented by Pannick, Harris, Rob Williams KC and David Gregory.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

I don't think any football fan in this country should want the Super League. But there should also be a recognition that other than relegation and promotion the PL is already becoming in essence a Super League with the gap between it and the Championship growing more and more and making it harder for newly promoted teams to compete.

We need an independent regulator.

Fans of other clubs need to wake up to the fact this isn't good against evil (City). The other owners want to preserve the status quo and their end goal will be to create a system whereby their returns are maximised and their investment doesn't have to be significant to get it. They will want a spending cap to help protect them from fans calling for more expenditure. They'll want an end to promotion and relegation. They'll want games abroad.

Smaller sides with owners unable to fully back their clubs of course are at a huge disadvantage in the P/L. That they have made it to the P/L in the first place - at least for one season - is huge. But odds are against them from staying up.

With regard to an independent regulator... what's to regulate? Other than clubs overspending to the point of insolvency?

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Do we have a PR team at City?
If so, what year do they start work?

2036 AD

 

[M12Blue]

Funny isn't it but City are fighting to save the game from the Americans

And they don’t realise until it’ll be too late

 

[Plain Speaking]

will be out at 1pm. And on Youtube in pieces later I suspect.

If you or any other poster can post a link when it's out it would be appreciated! ;-)

 

[dublinblue12]

The team those rules seem to affect most is Newcastle. They are a future treat to our current dominance. We are currently miles ahead in terms or resources and infrastructure. We are doing OK. Illegal or not why would we want to reverse a rule that helps us stay ahead of the competition as things stand

 

[ayrshire_blue]

2036 AD

2036 in Abu Dhabi? What's that UK time?

 

[SilverFox2]

They may be 2 different allegations but it appears that if evidence is needed and not just possibilies / probabilities then the 115 one has very little evidence from PL.

However the City allegation has a mountain of evidence that keeps being added to.

Quite a dilemma for the 115 Panel and the Arbitration Panel.

 

[Academica]

It kind of is, World club cup is mega money next time around. Red cartel clubs moaning about it already.

So if the Premier League vote to ban clubs from entering the World Club competition, which results in City missing out on $50 to $100 million. That's democracy in operation and some on here think we should sit back and not take on the red cartel.

 

[M12Blue]

Could this be part of a 3D chess move to drain the PL of money, fighting this case, so that they have less resources to use towards the 115 court case?

No at a guess

 

[abu13]

Thin end of the wedge, the next thing you know we will see fair market value on transfers and relegation and promotion removed.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Just had to like that again..lolz

It’s weird as I can hear Paddy saying it but with HRH’s face

 

[Coatigan]

Do we have a PR team at City?

Yes. This one guy called Stefan, and he's a volunteer.

 

[kaz7]

Not pessimistic about the legal cases.

I just think City are really bad at PR in this country.

They say nothing and the club gets deliberately battered with misinformation and lies.

A simple statement would correct the bullshit that is already going round.

You still not happy lol, the club are not breaking confidential things so you can get a statement every week

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Could this be part of a 3D chess move to drain the PL of money, fighting this case, so that they have less resources to use towards the 115 court case?

I noticed Jamie Carragher liked a tweet from an account that floated this idea. Rather unsurprisingly another conspiracy into the mix.