Manchester City won a crucial victory in his legal battle with the first League after the rules of the director of sponsorship were declared “zero and inapplicable”, according to Times.
An independent court judged in October that the rules concerning transactions of associated parties (APT) – applied between 2021 and 2024 – were illegal in three areas.
The Premier League modified these three laws in November – supported by 16 of its 20 members – but City challenged the validity of the AP as a whole, and the argument of the English champions was confirmed.
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According to the Times, which claims to have seen the verdict of the independent court made up of three high -level legal personalities in Sir Nigel Teare, Lord Dyson and Christopher Vajda KC, the final price read: “In the first partial final prize, it was Declared that the appropriate rules and the modified APT rules were illegal in three respects.
“The question is now posed whether these three respects can be broken from the remaining appropriate rules so that the remaining appropriate rules are valid and enforceable.
“The three respects in which the APT rules and the modified Apt rules have been illegal cannot be broken in the result that the Apt rules as a whole are zero and inapplicable.”
Manchester City and Newcastle could benefit
The rules concerning the APT have been provided to prevent clubs from inflating the value of the sponsorship agreements with the associated parts. The court verdict could allow the tastes of City, belonging to the majority by Abu Dhabi, and Newcastle, belonging to the majority by the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia, to conclude new agreements.
The Times report reports that the Director General of the Premier League, Richard Masters, wrote to his clubs today and tried to play the importance of the court’s decision.
In the letter, Masters would have admitted that the previous rules were zero and inapplicable but underlined by “new rules have been voted in place”.
