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

BobKowalski said:
Agreed. At some point the penny has to drop that in an effort to stop City and then Newcastle two other clubs have had points deducted, another club showed up the inadequacy of the rules as drafted and we now have a ruling that cites the latest APT rulings are illegal and that the PL is abusing its authority.

Additionally, the free ride other clubs were getting via shareholder funding has now been deemed unfair and discriminatory. Chuck in the millions spent on legal fees and it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of Masters stewardship.

To be fair it has been bleeding hilarious so I’ll give him that much.
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Colin Bells Boots said:
He is of absolutely no use to us at all. We don't need him, as this outcome clearly demonstrates.

He won't be allowed to continue for long as this a serious and critical decision against the PL and the favoured clubs.

Why should he be paid for being a **** and an incompetent one at that - serious question ?
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if I worked for an organisation and kept spending their money on court cases I kept
Losing because I either didn’t understand my own rules or tried to bring in rules that were deemed illegal, I imagine my organisation would throw me out of the window
 
SebastianBlue said:
I am getting these shirts printed in all sizes for my pop up City apparel shop ahead of the Wolves game. ;-)
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XL for this fat **** please!
 
yes, PL spent millions on this case trying to defend unlawful rules. surely Newcastle, Everton etc has to bring it up next week meeting if not us...
 
bridgeno1 said:
From an Arsenal perspective this isn't great for us. The main ruling I see from this that impacts us is the fact that club owners can't give the club loans without having fair market value interest charged.

At present the Kroenkes loan the club £250m and as football is a risky business I'd say fair market value interest rates are around 8% so that's an extra £20m that needs to be factored into FFP moving forward.
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If there was any doubt, it’s 100% clear that Arsenal are scum!
 
Stoned Rose said:
Well, well, well.

Firstly, the stones on City for taking this fight on when already in the midst of the other fight, is hugely commendable and shows the level of intelligence and competence at the club.

Second- we talk on here of conspiracies and “the cartel”. Well, today is all the proof we need we’ve been right for the last decade and more.

Third, yet another example of the PL making rules up as it goes along, at the behest of a a few select favourites. Even when those rules are unfair and unlawful.

Fourth - the biggest example of “acting in bad faith” you’ll ever see. Yet these cunts have the gall to charge us with “not acting in good faith”? You couldn’t make this up.

Fifth - blind eye to the shareholder loans that a lot of these cunts are being held up by. The likes of Arsenal and Everton will be fucking shitting themselves re PSR now.

Sixth - Panja, Zeigler, Lawton and Keegan shown up as the KFAs they are and none should ever be named as “sources” on here ever again.

This is a seismic day. City have taken the cheating fuckers on and showed them up for what they are. Heroic.

What a day to be a blue.
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In a nutshell.
 
Found this part of the PL statement interesting.

"Moreover, the Tribunal found that the Rules are necessary in order for the League’s financial controls to be effective."

I get this. No point having the rules if clubs just sidestep them.

So when do they sort out Chelsea selling the hotel to themselves?
 
I think upon a little reflection the extent of City’s victory depends on the club’s objectives. If it was to destroy APT (which I highly doubt) then it’s correct to say it’s somewhat limited, although still material. If it was to recalibrate the rules (which I expect it was) then the success would have to be, at the very least, characterised as highly successful.

However, what cannot be open to debate is the extent of the PL’s defeat. A de facto public authority having a finding that its rules were unlawful, as was the way they were applied, is huge. As are the findings of procedural irregularity and unfairness.

To fail to understand this is to fail to appreciate the function of an authority such as this, the laws of natural justice and the burden and standard of proof required to establish such findings.

This following from the Leicester shambles further underlines this organisation is not even close to being fit to oversee a multi-billion pound industry that has attained huge strategic and commercial importance to the UK.

That should be the story, but instead all we have is mental gymnastics from the media about how neither side won - when one of them manifestly lost.
 
Damanino said:
yes, PL spent millions on this case trying to defend unlawful rules. surely Newcastle, Everton etc has to bring it up next week meeting if not us...
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‘Stop spending all our money you thick ****, especially when you won’t let us spend any of it’
 
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