discopop
Well-Known Member
Get the sandbags and sharpen your bayonet we’re at war with the PL!
Bold power play
Bold power play
Were Newcastle in a similar position to ourselves when ffp was introduced by Uefa. They would have wanted to challenge it, but the time that it would have taken to over turn it would have been detrimental to NUFC especially after waiting 3 years for the EPL to accept the Saudi takeover.I have absolutely zero insight but if the PL rules were on genuinely shaky legal ground, I feel that Newcastle would have challenged them when they came in 3 years ago. These rules were very clearly brought in to stop Newcastle, the meeting to vote on them was called almost the same day the takeover got approved.
Reading through, it doesn't sound all that convincing to the layman.
It's worth remembeing City didn't vote in favour of the rules at the time though and the papers said this was because they thought it wasn't legal. So it's not a new theory at the club.
Other than that it's interesting that it's come from Lowton not Ziegler as the latter has had all big scoops for City v PL lately. And the reporter has clearly seen the actual documents and quoted from them.
Agreed - we don’t have to defend the club on everything, this seems desperate and the line about the club believing that sponsors linked to club owners should be allowed to determine how much they pay doesn’t come across well at all.This should help club's image, sigh. Seems so unnecessary to me. Unless they've got real dirt, which I doubt. Exhausting being a City fan.
Is fair market value a bad thing, really? Or is it not being used fairly?
Sorry I hadn't finished the full post yet(must have had the post button highlight when I pressed enter) for the full argument. Edited now. It starts off by pointing to the 2021 rule changes: The Associated Party Transaction rules. In that, there was said to be something around showing competing bids of equal value.Yes - but if we didn't have to comply with FMV we could have had much more lucrative deals. So if we can prove that FMV is unlawful we might be entitled to damages. At least I think that's the logic.
Going down swinging. See you at York (a)please someone break it down really really simply. this good or bad for us regarding 115