Manchester City and the Premier League are facing a delay in receiving answers to follow-up questions in their associated party transactions (APT) case. Despite a legal challenge by City against the APT rules, the Premier League issued proposed amendments that were approved by top-flight clubs. The tribunal is expected to make a final ruling on the validity of the rules at the end of January, but the process has taken longer than anticipated.
Manchester City and the Premier League have been waiting a “surprising” amount of time to receive answers to their follow-up questions in their associated party transactions case.Football Insider Man City took legal action against the Premier League regarding the APT rules at an arbitration hearing in June, with two aspects of the regulations deemed unlawful when the panel published its findings in October.
reported on 9 January the tribunal in the APT case is sitting at the end of January to make a final ruling on whether the rules should be regarded as void.“It’s a little difficult to understand how that might work,”“There could be a hearing scheduled for the end of this month, in which case there would then be another delay before we get a decision from that follow-on hearing.
Join the Football Insider WhatsApp channel to get all our exclusives and the breaking transfer news FIRST. “But that probably wouldn’t be another hearing. That would just be an issue of a decision in writing, so I don’t know. Those are the possibilities.
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