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

Keeper! said:
Listen to the Athletic podcast on this case, a very good listen.

They made a very good argument that say a UAE business wants to sponsor us because it's makes them look good and brings in very good revenue/exposure in that area, they are more than happy to pay a premium to make that happen.
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Not sure what's wrong with the Athletic these days. They used to be completely worthless, but now they are producing some good stuff raising some of the right issues. Interesting development.

As I love a good conspiracy theory, here is one. The club has produced some evidence of their connection to the Times, Liverpool, UEFA and the PL and they have got the message? Panja has been quiet as well recently, hasn't he? Now, where is that tin foil hat again .......
 
halfcenturyup said:
Not sure what's wrong with the Athletic these days. They used to be completely worthless, but now they are producing some good stuff raising some of the right issues. Interesting development.

As I love a good conspiracy theory, here is one. The club has produced some evidence of their connection to the Times, Liverpool, UEFA and the PL and they have got the message? Panja has been quiet as well recently, hasn't he? Now, where is that tin foil hat again .......
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& yet nothing produced by Sam Lee
 
halfcenturyup said:
Not sure what's wrong with the Athletic these days. They used to be completely worthless, but now they are producing some good stuff raising some of the right issues. Interesting development.

As I love a good conspiracy theory, here is one. The club has produced some evidence of their connection to the Times, Liverpool, UEFA and the PL and they have got the message? Panja has been quiet as well recently, hasn't he? Now, where is that tin foil hat again .......
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The Athletic has gone so bad that I considered cancelling my subscription until I remembered that I have a modded app so don't pay for it anyway.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Ziegler has already given a window to the verdict in his piece today.

It's clearly a steer the Premier League have fallen foul on Executives having to justify why a sponsorship deal is worth what it is :)
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If true, many facets to that, of course. Whether the PL has over-reached in trying to force sponsors to give them information (which seems common sense to me) and/or whether there is a question mark over FMV and/or the firm chosen to assess it. I hope that's not all we've won.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Ziegler has already given a window to the verdict in his piece today.

It's clearly a steer the Premier League have fallen foul on Executives having to justify why a sponsorship deal is worth what it is :)
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Illegal laws being implemented, not knowing the interpretations of their own rule book in the Leicester case. What a fantastic well run league we have, there’s a story here but no hack will go near it.
 
halfcenturyup said:
There are three arbitrators. If Teare is the chairman, as was suggested on here earlier, then Dyson was presumably chosen by the PL. Likely the club chose Vajda who was arbitrator in the successful challenge (along with Dyson, by the way) by football agencies to the fee cap rule introduced by FIFA on football agents’ fees.

While interesting as a discussion point, I am not sure anything can be read into this case from the decisions made by the arbitrators on previous cases.

In my uneducated view, this case will be decided on the specific, and unique, rules in the PL handbook and whether the comply or not with English law. To my mind at least, those rules (or, at least, some elements of them) can be shown to be discriminatory, unfairly burdensome on a targeted group, and unnecessary to meet the PL's objectives.

But what the fuck do I know? :)
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A lot more than me mate, you make a lot of sense when inputting a view.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Can’t find the article but sounds good news.
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Presumably he's referring to this article:-


Although it only says it's "imminent" (yes, really).

It does name the 3 judges which I don't think I've seen previously but then I've been busy as the wife had a couple of mini strokes. I'm only on here as a sort of time out :(

"The Lawyer website has reported that the independent panel involved in the APT arbitration is made up of three of the most experienced and respected judges in the country. The three tribunal members are all retired senior judges: Sir Nigel Teare, Lord John Dyson KC and Christopher Vajda KC.
Lord Dyson, a former Master of the Rolls, is also a former Justice of the Supreme Court and over the past five years has sat on the appeal tribunals for Sheffield Wednesday, Derby County and Nottingham Forest’s PSR cases."
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Ziegler has already given a window to the verdict in his piece today.

It's clearly a steer the Premier League have fallen foul on Executives having to justify why a sponsorship deal is worth what it is :)
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Possibly. I prefer his earlier steer that City had some wins (plural).

He only knows what he has been told, of course, but I doubt that removal of the requirement for associated parties to provide a statement as to fair value would be the only "win". It may be one of the easier "wins", though, as my feeling is s that the PL has no right to demand anything of third parties (compare to investigations, for example).

Pretty sure there are other more meaty areas up for grabs, but we shall have to wait and see :)
 
Centurions said:
Presumably he's referring to this article:-


Although it only says it's "imminent" (yes, really).

It does name the 3 judges which I don't think I've seen previously but then I've been busy as the wife had a couple of mini strokes. I'm only on here as a sort of time out :(

"The Lawyer website has reported that the independent panel involved in the APT arbitration is made up of three of the most experienced and respected judges in the country. The three tribunal members are all retired senior judges: Sir Nigel Teare, Lord John Dyson KC and Christopher Vajda KC.
Lord Dyson, a former Master of the Rolls, is also a former Justice of the Supreme Court and over the past five years has sat on the appeal tribunals for Sheffield Wednesday, Derby County and Nottingham Forest’s PSR cases."
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Hope she's OK, matey.
 
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