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

Nightmare Walking said:
Was City's win bigger than the Premier Leagues?
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Very clearly.

There’s no universe where a set of rules that are part of the governance of a multi billion pound industry have operated for 3 years being proven to be unlawful and now null and void is anything but a severe bumming for the PL.

It shows it up for exactly what it always was - clear and organised unlawfulness designed to stop specific clubs progressing.

Severe bumming.
 
DJBusinesscake said:
So to sum up, we're all buzzin, but Steffan says it's nothing to be buzzin about?
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I think there’s lots of reasons to be happy. It’s a big PR win for City, and might help shift some of the narrative around the club. Masters’ credibility is shot, and the PL’s ability to govern effectively is further damaged. Journalists and pundits who were scathing about our legal action, and disingenuously claimed the initial verdict was a clear win for the PL, have shown their ignorance.

But it’s not an end to APT rules as such. They will be amended until they eventually pass any legal challenge. Clubs still don’t have carte blanche to negotiate whatever sponsorship deals they like.
 
Stoned Rose said:
Very surprised @gordondaviesmoustache hasn’t weighed in yet tbf.

Must be a little “tied up” with business in his dungeon.
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I’ve literally been posting on the last few pages, although not strictly about the matter at hand!

As it happens had a late ‘working’ lunch earlier and slept from around the time this was announced until a couple of hours ago, so have been catching up! Nice thing to wake up to.
 
As far as I’m concerned the independent panel have declared the ATP rules null and void that’s good enough for me and their word should be taken as that now,none of this but it means this or that or it’s not entirely what they have said,it’s null and void get over it and move on ..
 
slbsn said:
I'm sure City's primary aim was defeating APT. But as I have said, the PL succeeded on that point.
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I think a lot of it was us wanting to show the PL couldn’t be trusted to regulate itself, as well as giving them some reputational damage if we could too.

I think you’re probably right but at the same time I’m not sure we really thought we would have won on defeating APT as a whole, the argument against it was never strong enough.
 
meltonblue said:
I think a lot of it was us wanting to show the PL couldn’t be trusted to regulate itself, as well as giving them some reputational damage if we could too.

I think you’re probably right but at the same time I’m not sure we really thought we would have won on defeating APT as a whole, the argument against it was never strong enough.
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I agree. Many don't believe those aims were the real likely aims from what I can gather.
 
Ric said:
I think there’s lots of reasons to be happy. It’s a big PR win for City, and might help shift some of the narrative around the club. Masters’ credibility is shot, and the PL’s ability to govern effectively is further damaged. Journalists and pundits who were scathing about our legal action, and disingenuously claimed the initial verdict was a clear win for the PL, have shown their ignorance.

But it’s not an end to APT rules as such. They will be amended until they eventually pass any legal challenge. Clubs still don’t have carte blanche to negotiate whatever sponsorship deals they like.
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You never will be able just to sign any outragous sponsorship deals if playing in Europe because of UEFA financial rules prohibit it
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I’ve literally been posting on the last few pages, although not strictly about the matter at hand!

As it happens had a late ‘working’ lunch earlier and slept from around the time this was announced until a couple of hours ago, so have been catching up! Nice thing to wake up to.
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Just clocked your arrival in the thread as I was reading back from about 35 pages ago mate.

Good to see you on good form mate.
 
Ric said:
I think there’s lots of reasons to be happy. It’s a big PR win for City, and might help shift some of the narrative around the club. Masters’ credibility is shot, and the PL’s ability to govern effectively is further damaged. Journalists and pundits who were scathing about our legal action, and disingenuously claimed the initial verdict was a clear win for the PL, have shown their ignorance.

But it’s not an end to APT rules as such. They will be amended until they eventually pass any legal challenge. Clubs still don’t have carte blanche to negotiate whatever sponsorship deals they like.
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Best of luck to the PL finding rules that are lawful AND stymie the clubs it’s intended to stymie.

They won’t be able to and that’s why this is a big win for City and a severe bumming for those cunts.
 
RAG CAFE -
I do wonder whether the Premier League could re-brand and create a new league where as the poster above says - entry for non state owned clubs only.

Surely there would be no stopping that and would work if there were enough members?
Rag Cafe at it`s finest sweet Jesus talk about desperate and deluded.
 
slbsn said:
I agree. Many don't believe those aims were the real likely aims from what I can gather.
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Always thought it was an inevitability after they allowed the Newcastle deal through in particular and as a principle hard to argue against.
 
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