The APT’s are at the heart of City’s charges. Your increase in revenues year on year were remarkable in the early 2010s. Said b4 on this forum that it’s completely understandable why City ‘might’ have historically acted in the way they allegedly did because the deck WAS/IS stacked against non-establishment clubs. Now you are at the TOP of the top table it’s only right that your club decided that attack is the best form of defence. BUT APTs if unchecked will kill any remaining semblance of competition equality unless market value is agreed (many are waiting to exploit this). City are an exemplary model of a brilliantly run Uber-elite club but many want to strangle you because of how you ‘might’ have got your top-table seat.
As far as Brighton go… we have a billionaire Brightonian at the helm who’s in it for the long term. Bloom’s granddad was deputy chairman in the 70s under chairman Mike Bamber who brought Clough/Taylor/Mullery to the club. We’re just trying to compete in a world (as previously stated) inhabited by Hedge Funds, Ex-Oligarchs and Petro-States. It’s a far cry from Joe Corrigan warming down with pints of wine while Swales and Bamber chewed the fat in the executive lounge at a dilapidated Goldstone.