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

domalino said:
It doesn’t really matter if the rules are null and void or just unlawful does it? Because sponsorships still need clearance from the league and they showed with Newcastles takeover they’re more than happy to pass an emergency rule blocking new sponsors being approved until permanent rules are passed.

So on a practical level, it doesn’t change anything for City, we still need our sponsorships to hold up to every legal test and requirement, just not the extra steps that pushed it into unlawful territory.
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It became unlawful once it was established the sponsor was from Abu Dhabi. Unlawful under racist act 2008. Also know as the cartel made up rules act.
 
Albeeeert said:
I think the PL are probably caught in a catch 22 with this because PSR is inherently retrospective, it is calculated over the past three years.

So, if they don't take into account interest on shareholder loans for the past three years, that give those clubs with interest free loans an unfair and unlawful advantage.

But, if they do take that into account and those clubs end up failing PSR it seems likely they'll end up with a similar situation to the Leicester case where the rules are unenforceable because they didn't know or have the opportunity to resolve that at the time.

Possibly the only way it can be resolved is to wipe the PSR slate clean for everyone and start again.
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But wiping the slate clean for all is also unfair, particularly to us and hugely benefits an outfit like Chelsea.

There’s a number of teams, such as Utd and Villa who are right up against the limits of allowable spend.

Due to our comparatively low net spend, academy conveyor belt and fairly quiet transfer windows recently, we’ve got substantially more headroom than any other team, and that’s before we add in the sponsorship deals that have been held up.
 
slbsn said:
I tweeted about this earlier. I think it’s a real issue given the overlap of Counsel teams on both sides (particularly City)
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I suspect our KCs will be very enthused by the APT ruling
If nothing else it shows how hard it is to overturn these things. As such the premier league will struggle to land the 115/130 and prove all points.
Do you think it’s feasible we could come out having essentially won on most points but have a media campaign telling us we are still guilty.
 
bluedanza said:
But wiping the slate clean for all is also unfair, particularly to us and hugely benefits an outfit like Chelsea.

There’s a number of teams, such as Utd and Villa who are right up against the limits of allowable spend.

Due to our comparatively low net spend, academy conveyor belt and fairly quiet transfer windows recently, we’ve got substantially more headroom than any other team, and that’s before we add in the sponsorship deals that have been held up.
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New rules come in next season which don't benefit us again!
 
Tb1981 said:
I suspect our KCs will be very enthused by the APT ruling
If nothing else it shows how hard it is to overturn these things. As such the premier league will struggle to land the 115/130 and prove all points.
Do you think it’s feasible we could come out having essentially won on most points but have a media campaign telling us we are still guilty.
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That's what happened after the CAS ruling
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Could this drag on for ages because our “legal eagles” are busy 115ing it at the moment?

Can KCs undertake concurrent tribunals?
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He would need to get leave from one tribunal to be able to attend the other, which is likely to be granted (he’s a silk after all!) if it was for a couple of days. But the tribunal that granted the application simply wouldn’t sit for those two days. That’s the only way it could work in a case like this. The junior is theoretically supposed to step in, but here there are billions at stake. Of course they’d grant the application and adjourn accordingly.

No way they’d run concurrent substantive hearings for different proceedings with the same counsel on the same day.

Although two hearings in one day is double bubble! Two refreshers for the price of one! :-)
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The worthless **** hates City. And he’s a dishonest ****. And seems sinfully dull. No point whatsoever engaging.
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full on horrible bastard, mate.

Tb1981 said:
I suspect our KCs will be very enthused by the APT ruling
If nothing else it shows how hard it is to overturn these things. As such the premier league will struggle to land the 115/130 and prove all points.
Do you think it’s feasible we could come out having essentially won on most points but have a media campaign telling us we are still guilty.
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We could be cleared of all charges and the media would still say we were guilty.

It’s what they do.
 
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