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

[yozzerblue]

It would be good if every club abstained leaving just the cartel trying to vote through their illegal rules.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

standing back a little

it beggars belief that an organisation would behave the way the premier league does.

warring members battling for their own interests rather than working together for the greater good of the whole.

i know, i know, it's just the way businesses work.

I suspect that it’s an attempt to create a smokescreen of chaos and fractiousness and simply point at City and shout ‘it’s all their fault - everything was fine until those Arab sorts got involved’ (paraphrasing there) but it will be swallowed fully by the great hordes of the wilfully ignorant.

 

[citizen_maine]

It would be good if every club abstained leaving just the cartel trying to vote through their illegal rules.

It wouldn't, as it would get passed

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

By contrast, I don't think there is any real prospect of challenging FFP. The reason the APT rules were found to be unlawful is not because the object of regulating the transactions between clubs playing in the PL and associated parties is unlawful in itself- neither was the previous regime which regulated transactions between clubs and related parties for that matter. But the way in which those rules were framed contravened the principle that if you are going to regulate in that manner, you don't do it in a way that favours some clubs but not others. I don't think FFP could be subjected to the same criticism.

It probably wasn't in the remit of the PL tribunal, and probably a red herring from our point of view, but as I've said before, regardless of the legality of FFP, it could easily be argued that it would not prevent another Portsmouth.

Up in Scotland, Dunbarton have just gone into administration because of debts that became payable after their previous year end date. The same almost happened to us. Therefore, the PL's assertion that the FFP rules were put in place to stop this scenario was easily demonstrable to be without foundation.

 

[lancs blue]

Surely tomorrows planned meeting is going to get cancelled again? Unless there's "Other business" to deal with?

AOB will be "how else can we fuck up City?"

 

[Blueknows]

It wouldn't, as it would get passed

Not if us villa , toon , Everton and forest voted against

 

[Paladin]

I suspect that it’s an attempt to create a smokescreen of chaos and fractiousness and simply point at City and shout ‘it’s all their fault - everything was fine until those Arab sorts got involved’ (paraphrasing there) but it will be swallowed fully by the great hordes of the wilfully ignorant.

But it will come back to bite them at some point. When the 115 is resolved (positively for us), and these new amendments are exposed as being illegal, it will make Masters and the PL look like the incompetent imbeciles they really are.

The original APT amendments are already found to be illegal, in that they deliberately target certain clubs in favour of others. City so far has not made anything of this, but when all is laid bare at the end of the 115, I'm pretty sure the PL will be damned, and the chief agitators exposed.

 

[Roachy]

It wouldn't, as it would get passed

Always thought abstaining was a shit house trick as well.

 

[citizen_maine]

Not if us villa , toon , Everton and forest voted against

They wouldn't have abstained then, would they?

 

[hammocity]

I have it on good authority - the cult of rawk - that Villa are only voting that way due to the self-interests of the owner rather than doing what is best for the club. They have a desperate need to deny that there is any possibility that CITY are in the right and others might start to see that.

Re: 115 charges for the scorched earth cheating bastards on & off the pitch
« Reply #9983 on: November 19, 2024, 04:21:17 pm »

The villa owner has construction contracts worth billions with the Abu Dhabi government, so it's not surprising. He's doing what's good for him financially, not the club.

And yet we still have on here "The Liverpool thread"

I know we're keeping it classy but I'd like to see it renamed "the murdering, vile, thieving bastards thread".