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

[.db.]

Masters was chosen because the first 3 candidates turned it down ! The pl were running out of candidates.

Didn’t one of them take the job and then sack it off almost immediately because she thought what came with it was not what she wanted to be involved in?

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I'm not getting involved in his qualifications, just scanned the LinkedIn profile you shared, I'll leave it for people that know about that stuff to judge. All I was interested in was who he knows. All the people he worked with at Solesbury went straight into employment elsewhere, including the founding partner who heads up UK Athletics.

So a spurs fan who is no longer interested having attempted to deflect the topic.

Very spursy , one might think.

 

[WRicko]

Perfectly plausible. My question would be…do we like that behaviour? I’m delighted that we have had a win in the APT case but I wish we didn’t continually push these AD deals to a point where they can and are being challenged.

Let’s say what you’ve suggested is true and we complete the deal(s) now. What happens if/when the rules are updated and “evidently” or something to that effect is reinstated in the rules and our deal is then deemed to be evidently above FMV?

I don’t think we will complete the deals till
the new APT rules are in place or APT is abolished

 

[AirbagsOptionalTheReturn]

So the media is getting what they want out of this and that's smearing our name, I have just lost it with my boss who wanted to talk about this ruling and started out by saying "city had broken the APT rules and had to prove that they hadn't and that this ruling shows that they didn't", he stated he had read the BBC and Telegraph coverage of this and that's what he garnered from their "coverage". I explained, after calming down, that we challenged the amendments, we had not broken any rules and that we had actually potentially lost 2 sponsorship deals because of this and that we could sue. The look on his face was delightful. He then started harping on about the charges, to which I basically told him to go and read the charges before bringing that up as if he is basing his views on the media then its completely inaccurate.

 

[SilvaisSkyBlue]

Based on what? The analysis was from leading sports law silks and partners. What do you know that they don't?

Based on its literally hearsay, it states an unnamed legal source and then states most would say they would wait and see, he states in the headline find out who won the APT case, and then provides zero answer to his headline.

This case will set a precedent whichever way it pans out, but that article is pure hearsay bollocks.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Does he explain why City think the APT rules are now void?

He suggested one KC said it was to do with:

"what is known as the “blue pencil test,” namely can a blue line be put through the offending sentences to fix them according to the tribunal’s decision and not fundamentally change the rules in the process. In other words, are the three points on which City won enough to invalidate the entire APT rules.

Clearly City will argue that they are. Given that these three points appear not to affect the purpose of the rules and are, according to the League, easily fixable, this may be an uphill battle. Some of the lawyers we spoke to disagreed with City’s view. Others didn’t offer an opinion, saying that it will be a judgement call. This could well be a matter for a further hearing. It is likely that the tribunal will decide itself whether it or the clubs should make this call".

 

[mrbelfry]

The email to the clubs said Cliff would also send something to the PL, iirc.

Ha can imagine Cliff would want to write that in crayon and include lots of pictures. On the face of it he looks like he's wrong to me so I sincerely hope he isn't going to end up with egg on his face.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I don’t think we will complete the deals till
the new APT rules are in place or APT is abolished

Will we be able to claim compensation due to the further delays in activating the sponsorship ?

 

[WRicko]

The suggestion amongst a few Chelsea supporters is that we have a couple of sponsorship deals stuck in process linked to Clearlake’s client base whilst not quite APT you may recall that the PL blocked a significant front of shirt deal that we had negotiated with Paramount + that was blocked

Yet some how you managed to get the stupid Hotel and Affinity Athletic deal

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

There is nothing wrong with the PL that a CEO with a pair of testicles can't put right. Fuck it, pay me 2 million a year and I'll do it.

So sounds like Alison Brittan would be a seriously welcome upgrade on the current incumbent.

 

[threespires]

I can't comment on the legal sector publications/sites as I have no experience of them, but my eyes were opened quite a bit on trade journalism when I had to engage with it in my own sector. Not all but a significant number of people involved were both vacuous and lazy, their main goal was to generate copy with as little effort as possible and with little to no diligence. Consequently the ease with which you could get complete bollocks out into the marketplace was utterly depressing.

 

[mrbelfry]

I’m sure Stefan doesn’t need anyone to defend him but people also need to appreciate that he’s plainly a cautious individual, which I expect is a characteristic that has served him well professionally over the yearsI think some people are expecting him to be something he’s not, which is a ridiculous expectation quite frankly.

He’s simply playing his natural game and shouldn’t be criticised for it.

He's the Bernado Silva we need not the Darwin Nunez we want

 

[blueste41]

It wasn't sent to me, but I've read it.

Oh I didn't realise the whole email was in the public domain, can you provide a link?

 

[Stoned Rose]

Thread has gone shit.

Can the posters who are intent on either digging Stefan out or being his mum and wiping his arse take it to PM you’re boring as fuck now.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

So the media is getting what they want out of this and that's smearing our name, I have just lost it with my boss who wanted to talk about this ruling and started out by saying "city had broken the APT rules and had to prove that they hadn't and that this ruling shows that they didn't", he stated he had read the BBC and Telegraph coverage of this and that's what he garnered from their "coverage". I explained, after calming down, that we challenged the amendments, we had not broken any rules and that we had actually potentially lost 2 sponsorship deals because of this and that we could sue. The look on his face was delightful. He then started harping on about the charges, to which I basically told him to go and read the charges before bringing that up as if he is basing his views on the media then its completely inaccurate.

When do you leave ? :)

 

[SilvaisSkyBlue]

It doesn't say that.

It says "The League has said it will be easy to update the APT rules by way of club vote to comply with these technical and procedural issues that the tribunal pointed out. City argues that all the rules are now unenforceable and it is for the tribunal in a subsequent hearing to decide this, not the Premier League’s 20 clubs."

So again, it’s bollocks and leaves all avenues open, pure speculation on what is and will be a landmark case, further rulings by the IC to come, this will be what’ll defines APT.

Really disappointed in your views on this, not because they go against what most City fans want, but you seem to be scrambling around looking for back up to your initial views on the APT, which as yet are and were incorrect.

P.S. I don’t expect you to be to disheartened with my disapproval ;)

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Yet some how you managed to get the highly questionable Hotel and Affinity Athletic deal

Reads better now imo

 

[.db.]

And the phrase "red cartel" is now in everyone's head. Big win.

Will enough clubs support any new rules if the first question is, "Would we spend millions defending in court these rules designed to help the red cartel?"?

Paddy Power used ‘Red Cartel’ in one of their videos to mock this very website and the City fans on it once, portraying us as paranoid and stupid.

Now it’s starting to creep into every day use.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Ha can imagine Cliff would want to write that in crayon and include lots of pictures. On the face of it he looks like he's wrong to me so I sincerely hope he isn't going to end up with egg on his face.

I can't imagine what would persuade the club's legal counsel (and I don't mean Cliff) to authorise sending such an email unless they were 100% confident in their position.

Bluffing maybe? Bravado? But why?

I still think there must be some missing pieces we don't know about that makes it make sense somehow.

 

[.db.]

You know the tide is turning when Joe 90 on talksport mentions the word cartel.

It’s a long time since I’ve listened to talkSPORT (so long, it was before Jordan had a show on there) but I get the gist that he’s been very anti-City and always been a ‘state-owned’ this ‘115’ that, berk. So for him to be using it as well is another win.