Man City win landmark case leaving Premier League at risk of being plunged into crisis with financial rules ‘unlawful’

MANCHESTER CITY person won their warfare with the Premier League implicit “unlawful” fiscal rules.

An autarkic tribunal contiguous ruled successful favour of the four-in-a-row champions — insisting the regulations are “void and unenforceable”.

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Man City won their tribunal conflict with the Premier League[/caption]

The bombshell verdict could present trigger a bid of multi-million-pound compensation claims from clubs and plunge the contention into crisis.

And it means City person landed a stroke successful their ongoing ineligible conflict with the Prem and their main Richard Masters, contempt the ruling being abstracted to the charges of 130 fiscal regularisation breaches levelled astatine the club.

An 18-page tribunal verdict has ruled the Prem’s sponsorship regulations connected Associated Party Transactions — which ran from December 2021 to November 2024 — were unlawful successful their entirety.

Today’s landmark ruling from a sheet of 3 eminent erstwhile judges means the League present look coughing up £20million to wage their ineligible bills — and City’s.

The APT rules were implemented following the Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle and covered sponsorship deals with companies related to a club’s owners.

But the verdict opens the doorway to the Toon, Abu Dhabi-owned City and different clubs making monolithic compensation claims.

City — whose ineligible squad was led by Lord Pannick — took the Prem to tribunal aft projected deals with Etihad Airways and First Abu Dhabi Bank were blocked successful 2023.

They besides accused Prem chiefs of attempting to mislead clubs up of November’s ballot connected ATP regularisation amendments, which were passed pursuing a  majority 16-4 vote.

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Masters wrote to each 20 clubs today, conceding the “previous rules arsenic a portion are void and unenforceable,” but insisting “new rules were voted into force” and that clubs indispensable comply with them.

Today’s panel, including erstwhile Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson, judged the ATP rules could not beryllium amended by a bid of “discrete” tweaks.

But a Prem connection read: “This determination does not interaction the valid cognition of the caller rules.

“The caller APT rules are successful afloat unit and  clubs stay required to comply with each aspects of the system.”

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Richard Masters has written to each 20 Premier League clubs[/caption]