City launch legal action against the Premier League | Unconfirmed reports that City have secured "potentially significant victory" (p 808)

[halfcenturyup]

Have you got a quote etc anywhere

You still haven't found the APT rules in the handbook six months later?

 

[Centurions]

Is it yet another indicator of the 115 charges about to be dropped ????

No.

 

[Eccles Blue]

If you feel the same as them are you able to clarify this point:

I don’t really want to see a league where the team with the deepest pockets wins all the prizes.

Football has been like this for decades. In fact the current financial rules make it more likely the teams at the top will stay there, so please could you state why it’s bad that City challenge such rules from a legal perspective?

I said MOSTLY agree, that is one point I puzzle over because I know it has gone on in the past. Rancid meat to schools being one case in point ;-)
Nowhere have I said that I think it is bad that City are challenging, I have made a point of saying that I will defend the club.
My original question still stands though, although you may not have seen my earlier post. Basically are we going to a law court or a tribunal? (My posting was a lot longer than that but that is what it boiled down to.) :-)

 

[cheekybids]

It begs the question, if as Stefan said we are very unlikely to win this case, why have the club taken it on?

Sometimes you can win by losing. If victory is considered the change of the rules being halted then we may fail but if the real intention is to highlight corruption & drag others into investigations then we’ll know soon.

 

[Skrastins]

will be out at 1pm. And on Youtube in pieces later I suspect.

thank you.

just watched it. great interview as always.

 

[cheekybids]

This rugby writing Times shill is married to Arsenal chief commercial officer Julia Slot

Man City are taking the nuclear option – the result will be anarchy

Legal challenge by Man City is a battle about cutting loose from the rules and in so doing creating a disparity that kills the Premier League as a competition

www.thetimes.co.uk

Another associated party …..

 

[Centurions]

I thought it was decided previously by UEFA that the Etihad sponsorship was at arm's length so they were not an associated party hence would not be affected by those Rules? Are the PL rules with regard to who is or isn't an associated party different to UEFA?

It was related party, that's why City are doing this due to the changes to the rules where they use their version and called it associated party which seems to mean if you're from the same region (but not the USA obviously).

 

[halfcenturyup]

Did we pay Mancini off the books from another account - probably yes.

Was it illegal? Was it against PL rules at the time? Did we meet FFP because of it?

What's the problem?

 

[Eccles Blue]

Sometimes you lose a battle to win the war. :-)

 

[Joe Donachie]

Can somebody explain to me why this hearing next week is taking place in Harrogate? Why there? Proper random that.