Man City launched a new legal challenge against the Premier League for sponsorship agreements in the last bomb development

Manchester City has launched a new legal challenge to the rules of the Premier League on sponsorship agreements, in a new climbing of war between the competition and its champions.

Mail Sport understands that, in the last development of the bomb, the club's lawyers have informed the League that they will seek an arbitration audience on the amendments made to the transaction regulations of the associated party (APT) that have already been in the center of a long legal duration battle.

City won a victory over competition when an arbitration panel found rules of agreements on agreements with parties linked to clubs were “illegal.”

However, the Premier League later and quickly made a series of amendments, which were later voted by most of its clubs.

At that time, the city's legal advisor, Simon Cliff, raised the possibility of new legal actions if the new regulations “hurry” in a fierce letter to the clubs, and their employers have now carried out that threat.

The original panel had encountered problems with the rules for several reasons, especially since they did not submit loans to shareholders, from parties with participation in clubs as owners, to the same fair assessments of the market as the commercial agreements.

Manchester City has challenged Premier League rules on sponsorship offers again

The president of the city, Khaldoon to Mubarak, is shown (left) next to the CEO of the Ferran Soriano Club in August

Some of the city's rivals, especially Arsenal and Liverpool, benefited significantly from such loans. The new rules say that the loan of existing shareholders will be established effectively on one side and will not be subject to such valuations, which means that those involved escape have to pay retrospective rates worth millions.

City, whose action is being directed once again by Lord Pannick KC, says that this means that the new rules remain discriminatory and unfair.

They also say that the fact that clubs can continue to benefit from loans for shareholders, with only the interest rate subject to a fair market value evaluation and that they can obtain the total value of the loan before such evaluation is also unfair.

The new rules will continue to be in place while the legal challenge rumbles. A time frame for an audience has not yet been established, includes Mail Sport.

In what is a complex and messy situation, both City and the Premier League are waiting for a greater clarification of the original court panel about whether the entire ATP system should have been declared void and without effect.

The amendments were voted 16-4 in November. The city was backed by Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United.

Before the vote, Villa had written to the clubs to warn them that it was “very clear that any vote (if it passes) will result in an immediate dispute of Manchester City.”

Initially, City had launched a legal challenge last June, after the Premier League rejected a new agreement of a broad agreement with the airline Etihad based in Abu Dhabi, which they ruled did not have a fair market value.

City has finished each of the last four seasons as the Premier League champions of England

The last act will be discussed in what is expected to be a struggle of shareholders of the Premier League on Thursday. Executive President Richard Masters wrote to clubs this week to inform them about the new challenge of the city.

“The Premier League is still strongly of the opinion that the amendments approved in November were legal and the APT rules meet all the requirements of the Competition Law,” Masters added.

'We consider that the new arbitration must be resolved as soon as possible and, for that purpose, we have agreed that the same court must be appointed to listen to the new case. The parties are currently corresponding in relation to new addresses.

A verdict on the main audience on the alleged 115 infractions of the Premier League spending rules is still pending.