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

Etihad obviously wouldn’t have to increase unless that was the agreement with City. The PL has no power of the third party. But it has power over City and requires the club to take all necessary steps to vary the agreement to the lower approved FMV or end the transaction.
Is that right Stefan? I assumed we could do a deal at any value but the PL rules could make us put through an accounting adjustment purely for FFP purposes!

If this is not the case it makes it even more ridiculous that shareholder loans below market value interest were not addressed in ATP rules originally.
 
The PL apparently caused a 12 day delay in releasing details of the ruling. I’d wager they timed it for the International Break and wanted to rush through a quick fix in time for the PL restart. Slippery bastards.

They'll cause a delay on the 115 to be in the middle of the CWC no doubt.
 
The PL apparently caused a 12 day delay in releasing details of the ruling. I’d wager they timed it for the International Break and wanted to rush through a quick fix in time for the PL restart. Slippery bastards.
Who knows? If games were going on, this would have goy less coverage though and football bantz would have moved on quicker.

There’s a range of potential reasoning as to why there was a publishing delay from the PL desperately trying to save face to them seeking legal guidance for something.
 
The PL apparently caused a 12 day delay in releasing details of the ruling. I’d wager they timed it for the International Break and wanted to rush through a quick fix in time for the PL restart. Slippery bastards.

I think it was timed for October 7th & front page headlines obviously elsewhere.
 
You have to love how Martin Samuel puts it:

"Unlawful, unlawful, unlawful, unfair, unfair, unreasonable, unreasonable. The seven conclusions of the arbitration panel governing Manchester City’s case against the Premier League make for sobering reading. Yet, even sober, the hangover is going to last a very long time."

 
Not that I have any hard feelings towards that Liverpool Fing Cheating:

 
You think City are such a popular club amongst the media that the likes of Lawton would be rushing together his pro-City piece in? We're public media enemy no1 and the shit we have taken in the press over the last few years backs that up. The likes of Lawton is only going to write a pro-City article if he genuinely believes in it himself, we ain't paying him. Odd that Spurs did not appear to side with the PL re APT, or have I missed something? Levy always appears to want to ingratiate himself with the Red Cartel.
BBC piece says spuds were witnesses for PL??
 
I see the verdict is quite complicated but my simplification of it was that all illegal stuff etc must be rectified but they expected the PL to do it presumably fully legally.

If the PL then get their amended rules back via a vote and is still illegal or unfair etc then surely they will fail the trust the Panel put in them.

Perhaps the Panel could have a comeback to be able to insist any future rule changes must be not only agreed but must be independantly found to be fully fair etc before voting can take place.

I am fearful that this trust in Arsenal to write fair rules may take years.
 
You think City are such a popular club amongst the media that the likes of Lawton would be rushing together his pro-City piece in? We're public media enemy no1 and the shit we have taken in the press over the last few years backs that up. The likes of Lawton is only going to write a pro-City article if he genuinely believes in it himself, we ain't paying him. Odd that Spurs did not appear to side with the PL re APT, or have I missed something? Levy always appears to want to ingratiate himself with the Red Cartel.
Spurs sided with the cabal, as expected
 
I see the verdict is quite complicated but my simplification of it was that all illegal stuff etc must be rectified but they expected the PL to do it presumably fully legally.

If the PL then get their amended rules back via a vote and is still illegal or unfair etc then surely they will fail the trust the Panel put in them.

Perhaps the Panel could have a comeback to be able to insist any future rule changes must be not only agreed but must be independantly found to be fully fair etc before voting can take place.

I am fearful that this trust in Arsenal to write fair rules may take years.
They wouldn't be in this mess if they'd got someone independent to write the rules in the first place. Why they allowed Arsenal to do it beggars belief
 
They wouldn't be in this mess if they'd got someone independent to write the rules in the first place. Why they allowed Arsenal to do it beggars belief
Their hubris has zera limits even when they have been found guilty by a Panel consisting solely of their own choice and rules.
 
Love this bit from Samuel's Times column:

"And this is pretty much the principle on which most of football’s financial regulation is based. None shall pass … Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Juventus, all of the clubs that had it their way for so long. Heaven forbid anyone passes them. The established elite were the ones that selflessly helped Uefa draft its rules, neatly pivoting so that the initial target — debt — became less of a crime than owner investment. One day, maybe, the former Manchester United chief executive David Gill will explain what was in it for all of the clubs, but we can certainly work out what was in it for his."

Martin knows what most of us Blues have been saying for years.
 
If anyone managed to catch it, the Chief Executive of Etihad was on Iain King in Sky News business hour between 4.30-5pm today?

He was asked a few questions about their involvement with City and the recent case.

King at one stage asked if Etihad would ever sponsored a different club in the Premier League, which was easily batted away.

Apologies, don't know where you would get it to post on here.
 

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