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

Kazzydeyna said:
Just a quick question to those who are disappointed in our club taking this action.
What would you have them do instead? Would you have them meekly accept that our commercial and sporting rivals - an executive of one of which who has apparently made, let’s be charitable here, “discriminatory noises” about our club and executive team/ownership - should also have the right to decide how much sponsorship City are allowed to have? And from whom it should come?

We have tried that for 16 years and been progressively and repeatedly slapped down by the PL. Over and over again.

What more could the club do without finally resorting to the law? How many more insults should they accept? How many more sponsorships should they see go begging on account of the PL’s blatant racism (at worst) or protectionism (at best)?

How many more times should our executive team see their efforts to build this team, this club, this deprived area of Manchester and all its’ inhabitants up to world class standards be stymied because they are too brown/too Muslim/too good at it whilst our rivals see much bigger deals being waived through on a nod, a wink, a straight arm salute?

Win or lose this action I for one am more than proud of my clubs actions today. I’m humbled by it.

We didn’t start this fight. We tried to stop it ever becoming a fight. We tried to be decent and professional about it. We failed because we were never going to be allowed to succeed.

Thst is what the law is for. And I am glad, proud, and relieved that this club, my club, our club, have finally said “Enough. This far and not one step further”

If that makes no marks and twats on social media give you a hard time, stand up and fight for your club.
They’re fighting for you.
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Brilliant.
 
PPT said:
Of course it’s a tactic. Khaldoon did warn them. I’m glad we are doing this. Something had to give, otherwise Masters and his American handlers will never stop. They wanted a war. They started a war. Now they have got a war. Game on!
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I hope the Premier League are so ill equipped it will be like trying to defend a Tomahawk missile with a bow and arrow, they really are "Robin" bastards, Friar Tuck the lot of them.
 
Shit, went to bee for a couple of hours and woke up to this…

Come the fuck on !!!!!!
 
The problem is how transparent the Premier League have been, particularly with Newcastle. The hypocrisy is blatant and out there in the open. 'Related party' deals have always been part of football, because business people are going to find sponsors from their personal contacts. It was never an issue when Mike Ashley was doing it, because he never threatened to win anything. It's not been a problem with Bayern Munich being sponsored by companies that own shares, even when their commercial income is vastly inflated compared to similarly-sized clubs, because they were an already established club, so no-one noticed.

One that I remember was when Liverpool got taken over by an American and the next year they had the biggest shirt deal in history from Warrior; an American company that no-one had ever heard of, who could suddenly outbid Nike or Adidas, and give a record shirt deal to a team that at the time was finishing 8th. That company just happened to be owned by a personal friend of the new chairman and was swiftly taken over by New Balance, so didn't really get any benefit from the publicity.

And this is the racism that they talk about. Two American friends supporting each other's business are seen as completely above board (and why not?). A Germany company sponsoring a club they have shares in is seen as fine. Two companies that both happen to come from the UAE are automatically portrayed as related parties purely based on that fact. There's this constant narrative just below the surface that there's something murky and shady about Arab businesses.
 
wow, I am in full support of the club in this, if the lawyers think this is against the law we should challenge it rather than accept it.

there must be serious chance to win this if we decided to make a move here.

while on the other aspect of clear racist attacks from media and PL against City, this is also clear.
look how Boehly megaspending reported. imagine if he had brown skin and called Sheik Nasser Boehly...
now he is reported as fool, money waster.
in other situation he would be evil middle east guy trying to buy success, who needs to be punished by FFP rules and all that comments.

we all know what rivals up to in secret dinners and making PL change rules to benefit them.

I dont agree with FFP and limiting spend on football clubs like there wasnt anything like this for 100 year and football kept growing...
all the bullshit of "saving" clubs from bankruptcy, what a fucking joke.then you can leave a club billion in debt still if you want but cannot spend on it if you have the money. fake rules with a PR of "saving" football.

rivals PL owners are fucking devils tho, most mid table owners are all a sheep each of them , who are not ambitious enough to take on the cartel but happy enough to rake in high revenues by being in PL. we wont have many friends in this but we need to be only on right side of competition and UK law.
 
This is all a product of the PL letting the Saudis to take over Newcastle, which they never should have been allowed to.

It’s a weird one in that I don’t agree with the PL and I don’t agree with our position on it either tbh, not in the existing climate.
 
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