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

[Scoobz3]

So let’s hope that one is in the database with a suitable adjustment for premier league versus French league and relative success of both clubs in Europe …..

‘You only have to look at the farce over the wildly differing valuations of PSG's sponsorship with Qatar Tourist Authority, when UEFA were looking at it. One valuation was €8m per annum and another was over €100m. In the end they settled at €100m (c£85m).’

 

[BerkshireBlue]

The problem with forever changing complex rules is that they’re easily challenged as we have seen.

The PL have gone so far down the wrong road they can’t turn around but it’s a dead end. Whatever they do now someone will challenge it. Masters is finished for a start and that’s just the beginning.

Rule makers have to be independent and not put the rules up to be voted on by clubs with vested interests.

the clubs need a motion to scrap PSR in it's entirety. I reckon most are just stick of all the bullshit now

 

[halfcenturyup]

The mad thing is, that if a consultant came up with 2 different valuations for the same thing, surely that would set a red flag and indicate a problem with the valuation process. Yet the tribunal are saying there's nothing wrong with the process. Utter bollocks

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.

 

[Cobwebcat]

the clubs need a motion to scrap PSR in it's entirety. I reckon most are just stick of all the bullshit now

I think that is what City are banking on.

 

[Paladin]

The mad thing is, that if a consultant came up with 2 different valuations for the same thing, surely that would set a red flag and indicate a problem with the valuation process. Yet the tribunal are saying there's nothing wrong with the process. Utter bollocks

I don't think the tribunal said this. They only said the PL were not wrong in relying on the evidence submitted to them.

 

[Asa's left peg]

Loser Fucking ****?

Sorry, but I'm going to have to refer that to the commission to see if you are correct on all three assumptions. If unsuccessful, you will have no right to appeal or to see the fag packet, I mean the redacted data driven facts.

 

[bakerdave76]

Still wonder why this happened and was reported for about 2 days in the uk media.

 

[Stoned Rose]

This thing is moving too fast to read everything, but has anyone made the point that City's next step, after the APT rules have been found to be unlawful, and possibly null and void since inception, for soft shareholder loans, is to arbitrate the lawfulness of the whole FFP shebang for the same reason? Imagine FFP being declared unlawful and null and void since 2013. Delicious and a huge fucking mess.

Anything wrong with that idea?

Edit: This "win" on the APT case (or score draw) could maybe become a big bargaining chip.

You sexy bastard.

 

[threespires]

Have a glance at Villa Talk mate. A few thick as fuck Villa fans siding with the PL and Red Cartel clubs and claiming that it’s City who are corrupt! Obviously only a small snapshot and I’ve seen Villa fans elsewhere back us.

I spend a lot of my time in and around Villa fans. Broadly speaking I have about a quarter of them down as quite twatty and bitter, the rest range from ok to sound. It's not uncommon for the rest of their fan base to roll their eyes at the twatty ones but rarely do they call them out.

 

[eastlandsblue]

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

Id say Masters always thought this was a nightmare scenario and was told by the Cartel from the outset, he was they’re patsy and will be well reimbursed when having to resign