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

M12Blue said:
Although city telling PL to cough the f#ck up would make me smile a little
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Seeing as they fine us 10s of thousands of pounds for being 10 seconds late for a kickoff, I say we MUST absolutely pursue them for damages for delaying decisions on our sponsorship deals. It's just not on.

The rubbish that I read on ESPN that our deals have to be fair market value as we can't get more for our stadium and shirt sponsorship is just criminal, seeing as we have been the standard bearers for the premiere league for more than a decade. What have Arsenal really won in 20 years other than a domestic cup? But they're entitled to the same as European and world champions? Cry me a river.

The rags 75 million for shirt sponsorship only was something like a decade ago. If you account for inflation, then we are seriously underpaid for our success. Just take a gander at how much player prices have increased since those days.

One thing I've learned over the years, the squeaky wheel always gets the grease, no matter how incompetent you are.
 
Damanino said:
imagine if Emirates whenever have their deal expiring with Arsenal would come back with a renewal offer of 300m per yer (because their commercial guy is drunk as the Chevrolet guy was lol) rather than the 60m or whatever they have now for shirt+stadium deal.

does PL accepts that 300m deal without hesitation due to its not a company from same country as the owner? or is there any market value test on that?
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Surely you mean ‘the’ Arsenal?
 
mr t said:
It’s a bit worrying how The Premier League, having been told by an independent panel that they behaved unlawfully and abused their position of power, seem to think they can just keep the old rules with a few tweaks here and there and are actually being supported by UK media outlets. It’s like nobody has actually taken in the panels findings and once again The Premier League, in plain sight, is willing to abuse their position of power and try to carry on regardless.
It’s reeks of bully boy tactics by the lot of them.
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To me it reeks more of stupidity. Either they don’t understand the tribunal’s words or think they can get away with ignoring them.
 
Haha. Just read Delaney's latest piece. Apparently it's all due to clubs being state-owned. Not the PL putting in place, at the behest of certain clubs, unlawful rules to counter a perceived threat that hadn't at the time, or has now for that matter, materialised. And nothing to do with him just releasing a(nother) book about the evils of sportswashing, I don't suppose.

I am still amazed that the tribunal accepted there was a single reason for APT rules other than to stop Newcastle and City. The evidence put before them was weak imho (PL been discussing APTs since 2018 - why then I wonder? - but no formal discussions until post-Newcastle; UEFA's charges against City - which as we know were all thrown out; and the PL's case against City - which hasn't concluded so is no indication of any reason at all to do anything, if it is why not just deduct points now? Can't get my head around any of that. Especially as the PL, I don't think, can point to a single sponsorship that has subsequently been shown to be "evidently" above fmv. As I said, the tribunal needed fewer lawyers and more accountants :)

Anyway, Delaney is a funny little fella, isn't he?

For those that want to read it without giving him a click:


There are some crackers in it.
 
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