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Man City statement: https://www.mancity.com/news/club/club-statement-rule-x-arbitral-tribunal-award-63863904

 

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-          The Club has succeeded with its claim: the Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules have been found to be unlawful and the Premier League’s decisions on two specific MCFC sponsorship transactions have been set aside

-          The Tribunal found that both the original APT rules and the current, (amended) APT Rules violate UK competition law and violate the requirements of procedural fairness.

-          The Premier League was found to have abused its dominant position.

-          The Tribunal has determined both that the rules are structurally unfair and that the Premier League was specifically unfair in how it applied those rules to the Club in practice.

-          The rules were found to be discriminatory in how they operate, because they deliberately excluded shareholder loans.

-          As well as these general findings on legality, the Tribunal has set aside specific decisions of the Premier League to restate the fair market value of two transactions entered into by the Club.

-          The tribunal held that the Premier League had reached the decisions in a procedurally unfair manner.

-          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.

 

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1 hour ago, UpTheToon said:

Man U are actually fine under the proposed change.  It’s clubs who are getting free loans who are targeted. Manure have famously spent a fortune servicing their debt. 

 

They may be, they may not, depends if they are getting "preferential" loan rates significantly below "market value" If they are only paying 2-3% for example

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Just now, Mag3.14 said:

 

They may be, they may not, depends if they are getting "preferential" loan rates significantly below "market value" If they are only paying 2-3% for example

 

Did they not get a huge Covid loan (or whatever it was) ? was that FMV ?

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3 hours ago, SteV said:

Obviously he’s a Reuben pick/recommendation, but he sounds like he’s got an extensive background in property development and regeneration, just at the point the board are about to make a decision on a billion pound property development.

Roger Thornton already has a statue on Northumberland st…

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6 hours ago, jack j said:

I thought this happened last week? Is this just the same news again?

Yep but the usual EPL cucks like Panja were saying city had won nowt, basically a data room issue. It’s a lot more than that.

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2 hours ago, Jack27 said:

https://www.costar.com/article/1241088440/reuben-brothers-tune-into-circa-£20-million-newcastle-sky-offices-deal

Looks like Wellbar Central being sold to the Reubens, not NUFC. Not sure that has anything to do directly with the club but who knows 

 

Coincidental background? https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/newcastle-united-appoint-roger-thornton-to-board-of-directors

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19 hours ago, Minhosa said:

Can we self-sponsor the shit out of everything whilst this legal wrangle ensues?

 

I hope we do. Chelsea have had no problem taking the piss out current PSR restrictions, and they got a curtsey and "As you please!" from the PL while they did it.

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6 hours ago, TRon said:

 

I hope we do. Chelsea have had no problem taking the piss out current PSR restrictions, and they got a curtsey and "As you please!" from the PL while they did it.

 

Did they change the rules where you cant sell stuff to yourself ?

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So in summary we're not their top priority, never were, and the ambition is to still be the top club in the country. Thanks for that fascinating insight Luke. Here's the article paywall free if you've to take a shite anytime soon and want something to read.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20241009080243/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/10/09/newcastle-not-pif-priority-three-years-saudi-takeover/

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