Great news

The Red media in meltdown

There are a lot of highly paid jobs at stake so of course they will claim sort sort of victory. We will see when the new rules are agreed if they can cling to that claim at all. The red mafia agreed that the interest free loans from shareholders would not be included for strong reasons. It could be that enough clubs would rather abandon large parts of the rules than allow those to be included.

What a fantastic article by Martin Samuels! It's astonishing that the PL is claiming a victory in all of this

Posted the wrong link earlier. Here's Martin!

https://archive.ph/NndOh

Full announcement here. Go straight to page 164. If you want to read the rest please do and let me know all about it

https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2024/10/07/898efab9-9f51-449b-a393-1a0c05b48824/Manchester-City-and-Premier-League-Partial-Final-Award-071024.pdf

Martin Samuel article - Highlights the fact that PSR rules are now likely to have to take into consideration share holder loans. It could get more interesting...

https://archive.ph/7O0Dg

"The Tribunal also ruled that there was an unreasonable delay in the Premier League's fair market value assessment of two of the Club's sponsorship transactions, and so the Premier League breached its own rules."

Says it all really.  How much did the PL waste on legal fees while drafting the new rules?  Hope they kept the receipt 

I'd say that will have a big impact on the credibility of the PL. The obvious questions arising from this what were they trying to achieve and was there any undue pressure from outside sources?  I think we all know the answer to that.

As previously mentioned, this could well have a major impact on the 115 charges. One of the big points made was that the rules were discriminatory against City as they deliberately excluded other clubs who benefited from interest free shareholder loans.  The ruling has seemingly sided with City and their view that these interest free owner loans are no different than the APT sponsorship!  I have been saying this ever since the original charges were issued by UEFA.  Why would City need to break rules to inject money into the club when there were perfectly legal ways to achieve the same thing?

Was just about to post the same. Got a One Football link below for those who don't want to give the Daily Mail traffic.

Manchester City win APT legal case against Premier League via @Onefootball. Read it here:

https://onefootball.com/editorial/40139552?language=en

Other clubs now looking over their shoulders

https://x.com/MikeKeegan_DM/status/1843279615198212140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1843279615198212140%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=