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

[eastlandsblue]

I feel this is the reason Masters ducked out of his golf day with the PL's broadcasters.

Imagine the investment the broadcasters made being undermined & threatened by the very organisation who sold them the product? It's fucking business suicide!

Personally, if I was a TV Executive, by the 2nd hole I'd have told Masters to end the bullshit. City are the most watched team on the planet, in the most popular league, & the PL are risking killing the goose that laid the golden egg all to appease the Cartel, one of whom is down in 14th & rumoured to be looking for yet ANOTHER manager?

I've honestly never seen a business go to such lengths to kill themselves & their product. La Liga & the rest must be loving this!

I will always believe. Had it not been for Mansour and his commitment to make City the biggest club in England. The PL will have been done and dusted before 2020.

The red cartel would still be dominating the CL slots and working on a budget way below what it is now. But City put a spanner in the works and all 3 have spent way above what they will have always wanted

The PL is better because of us. And more competitive than it’s ever been

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Dunno what @tolmie's hairdoo has heard, but sounds intriguing nonetheless.

Sounds like Allison Britten has bought a rifle !

 

[mattcity5]

Here is the required info, can you please give us your assessment?

Here is the required info, we think it’s unusually high, can you give us your assessment?

Can definitely get different responses depending on how the question is framed.

Sounds like how VAR works.

"Did the ref definitely get that wrong? Nah, I can see why he gave that, might be wrong but understandable, stick with the ref's decision."

 

[Asa's left peg]

Just read this in the Times re: Dick Masterbates. On Wednesday Masters was forced to pull out of a golf day with television executives from Sky and NBC at the exclusive Loch Lomond Golf Club, which charges in the region of £600 to visitors for a round and new members somewhere approaching £100,000 as a joining fee. The NBC executives, who pay about £350million a season in TV rights to the Premier League as the biggest overseas broadcast partner, flew in from the US for the event but Masters has had to prioritise a matter that has caused huge divisions in English football’s top flight.

I suppose you wouldn't want someone who isn't going to be in position soon, conducting discussions over an on going business relationship.

 

[halfcenturyup]

You sexy bastard.

Fuck, did I leave my camera on again?

 

[Elbow beards]

I will always believe. Had it not been for Mansour and his commitment to make City the biggest club in England. The PL will have been done and dusted before 2020.

The red cartel would still be dominating the CL slots and working on a budget way below what it is now. But City put a spanner in the works and all 3 have spent way above what they will have always wanted

The PL is better because of us. And more competitive than it’s ever been

Other clubs, other than the cartel, should be thanking City. Luckily we had deep enough pockets to take on the Premier League and get these rules over turned. Just think how much potential money they have stopped clubs from earning. We should be lauded not sneered at.

 

[Cheer Up Peter Reid]

Confidence in Nielsen is surely tarnished, as we asked them for a FMV and the PL asked them for a FMV a few years later. The PL valuation using the same methodology was much lower than the valuation we paid them to give us.

So as another poster said earlier, Nielsen will deliver whatever result their client pays for.

One potential explanation is that Nielsen used different baseline data sets for each validation. We already know from the ruling that the PL were not prepared to share details of their database with us. Perhaps it is biased towards where we came from, versus where we are now / potential future value.

Designed to keep us in our place as such.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Always said it, they needed an accountant on the tribunal, instead of all these fucking lawyers.

@Prestwich_Blue was available, I believe. I could have carried his bags.

LOL. There was actually a job advertised recently with the shadow football regulator dealing with financial policies and regulation.

I was very tempted to apply but it would've involved a significant pay cut from my current role.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Matey, you have your views and I have mine,
You have a platform on talksport and get reactions good or bad it is part of the job and all I have is this forum

I would never call you pathetic or say you talk crap because it's just my views, I was just saying about the United covid19 and the PSR you were talking about and how other teams had to get allowances cleared by the panel and many clubs' allowances was turned down,

The funny thing is I think we are on the same page with the PSR allowances for clubs. Yes the bigger the club the larger the losses on match-day revenue in COVID-19, United have the largest stadium and would have bigger losses to let's say Everton, But £45million allowances for United claimed and were signed off when teams like Arsenal with 60.000 for home games only got around £5million,

If I overstep the mark on my post then Sorry, Sometimes my wording on posts is crap and that is down to the lack of my IQ levels that are in low double figures only.

As long as you break 40 points you’ll be safe

 

[Oldham Exile]

I’ve just checked the author, Christian Smith, out on LinkedIn.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christian-smith-5345a9121?

His only practical experience in the UK was as an associate for three years for a sports law firm called Solesbury Gay Limited, that ceased operating whilst he was there and whose licence to practise was revoked the month afterwards, following which he appears to have decided to engage in a career in journalism. It’s not clear why their licence was revoked, but at best I would suggest it was because they were unable to generate enough work to meet their regulatory obligations, at worst because of matters of professional misconduct. If they been moved on as a going concern then I wouldn’t expect to see a revocation, especially so promptly. SRA link here:

Register of licensed bodies - Solesbury Gay Limited 648998

Solesbury Gay Limited - 648998, Linstead House, 9 , Disraeli Road, , Putney, London, , SW15 2DR

www.sra.org.uk

He didn’t attain his legal qualifications in the UK (New Zealand) and whilst that of itself isn’t a bar to having a successful legal career in this country, it’s certainly a worthwhile factor to consider when taken in conjunction with someone’s career achievements.

So, based on the foregoing I would say he has insufficient real and practical experience on the subject matter to hold a legal opinion that should be given any meaningful weight. The extent of his practical legal experience was as an associate for a firm that failed, following which he decided to switch careers.

That will have entailed a huge reduction in his potential earnings. Not holding that against anyone, but it is perfectly reasonable to take that into account when evaluating what weight to attach to an article where he offers his opinion on a finding of law and its implications. It’s perfectly reasonable to conclude that if his opinions and analysis were worthwhile then he’d still be in practice. And he’s not.

So his assessment may not be biased, but personally speaking, in the context of being invited to give it any weight, I don’t think it’s worth a wank.

Good work that man - very informative for many of us I expect