Man City Starting a fresh legal challenge on the rules on party transactions in the Premier League | Football news
Manchester City has launched a new legal challenge against the new premier league sponsorship rules.
The Premier League champion lawyers contacted the Premier League officials to ask for another arbitration hearing on related rules on transaction transactions (APT).
This means that there are three legal cases between the City and the Premier League – one that covers more than 100 charges against City for alleged violations of the League financial rules, which the club has always stretched hard, the initial APT Challenge and now a new challenge.
Suitable rules regulate commercial contracts concluded between clubs and companies associated with their owners, demanding that they be “fair market value”.
Controversial rules aim to prevent the richest clubs from inflating such contracts and spending more on players to ensure that the Premier League remains competitive.
Manchester City seems to be not satisfied with the changes in the rules and it is understood that the rules consider the anti -concnity.
In November, the English champions were defeated when most of the top clubs voted to change in APT rules, which City has encouraged a legal challenge last June. The city thought that the rules were part of the “tyranny of the majority.”
Both sides requested the victory last October after the arbitration council found that some elements of the appropriate rules of the League of the League were illegal.
The Premier League has asked clubs to vote on changes that she believes will make the rules lawful and in accordance with the British competition law. This included the addition of shareholders’ loans to the FER market value assessment (FMV), the removal of some amendments to the APT rules made earlier this year and the changes in the way the clubs access the League data, which is used to make FMV decisions.
Both sides requested the victory last October after the arbitration council found that some elements of the appropriate rules of the League of the League were illegal.
But the Premier League provided at least 14 votes that he needed from club members to convey amendments with City, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest realized that he had voted against them.
Premier League CEO Richard Masters wrote a letter to the Premier League clubs, informing them about the last legal action of Manchester City – the letter was sent yesterday afternoon.
In the letter, the Masters says: “The Premier League remains strongly opinion that the amendments in November have been lawful, and appropriate rules in accordance with all the requirements of the Competition Act. We believe that the new arbitration must be resolved as soon as possible and, for this purpose , they agreed that the same court should be appointed to listen to a new case.
“The parties are currently responding to the further instructions. He added:” Suitable rules remain in full strength and effect, and clubs are needed to adhere to all aspects of the system. “
The news of City Challenge comes less than a week before the clubs gather for their first meeting of shareholders 2025 in London next Thursday.
