Manchester City launched a new legal challenge against the new Premier League care rules.
The Premier League Champions League lawyers have contacted the Premier League officials to search for another arbitration session on the boundary of the party's related party transactions (APT).
APT rules organize commercial deals that have been concluded between clubs and companies related to their owners, which requires them to be “fair market value”.
The controversial rules aim to prevent the richest clubs from inflating such deals and spending more to players to ensure the Premier League remains competitive.
It seems that Manchester City is not satisfied with the changes facing the rules and is understood that they consider the rules hostile to the competition.
In November, the English heroes were defeated when most of the top trip clubs voted in favor of changes in the appropriate rules, which the city pushed last June. The city considered that the rules are part of the “tyranny of the majority”.
Both sides won victory last October after a jury found that some elements of the appropriate league rules were illegal.
The Premier League has requested that clubs to vote on changes that they believe will make legal rules compatible with the UK competition. This included adding loans to shareholders to the evaluation of fair market value (FMV), removing some adjustments made to APT bases earlier this year and changes in how to reach the league database clubs, which are used to make FMV decisions.
Both sides won victory last October after a jury found that some elements of the appropriate league rules were illegal.
But the English Premier League received 14 votes that he needs from member clubs to pass the adjustments, with City, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest The concept that they voted against them.
Richard Masters, CEO of the Premier League, wrote a letter to the Premier League clubs to inform them of the latest legal procedures in Manchester City – the message was sent yesterday afternoon.
In the message, Master says: “The Premier League remains strongly that the amendments that were approved in November were legal and the appropriate rules correspond to all the requirements of the competition law. We consider that the new arbitration must be resolved as soon as possible, and,,,,,, And, in order to achieve this end, it agreed that the same court should be appointed to hear the new case.
He added: “The parties are currently compatible with regard to more directions. He added,“ The APT rules remain valid and the clubs remain required to comply with all aspects of the system. “
