City launch legal action against the Premier League | City win APT case (pg901)

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In the message, seen by Mail Sport, City’s general counsel Simon Cliff says bluntly: ‘regrettably the (league’s) summary is misleading and contains several inaccuracies’.

‘Of even greater concern,’ Cliff adds, ‘is the Premier League’s suggestion that new APT rules should be passed within the next 10 days.

'When the Premier League consulted on and proposed the original APT Rules in late 2021, we pointed out that the process (which took several weeks) was rushed, ill-thought-out and would result in rules that were anti-competitive. The recent Award has validated those concerns entirely.’

Cliff informs clubs that the panel found APT rules, aimed at preventing clubs from agreeing inflated deals with companies linked to their owners, unlawful and that, contrary to the top-flight’s comments, the decision renders all of the rules ‘null and void’.

‘In recent correspondence,’ Cliff writes, ‘the Premier League agreed with MCFC that this is an issue which will need to be resolved by the Tribunal. It is therefore remarkable that the Premier League is now seeking to involve the member clubs in a process to amend the APT Rules at a time when it does not even know the status of those rules’.

It is understood that City have already received ‘multiple’ responses in support of the email from other clubs.

It's interesting that Cliff says the club and the PL agreed in correspondence that the Tribunal should resolve the issue of the rules' status.

That is a new tribunal? The compensation tribunal?

Very interesting.

Edit: There is much more still going on than we know about, obviously. Annoying as fuck .
 

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