A Manchester City supporters group have claimed responsibility for a clear message sent to Premier League CEO Richard Masters outside the league’s London HQ this week.
Premier League bosses held a meeting with two representatives from each club in the capital on Tuesday, which is understood to have lasted just over an hour, to outline the situation regarding sponsorship rules from their perspective.
It is understood that the league will now use feedback provided at the meeting to update its proposals and recirculate to all 20 Premier League clubs, while there is a suggestion that this could be done ‘in a matter of days’.
The issue will not be formally clarified until a vote is held by the Premier League on matters, and in that case it would require 14 clubs to vote in favour in order for changes to be approved moving forward.
One support group has already made their feelings known towards the Premier League and its chief executive officer, Richard Masters through a protest board that has accompanied an online petition calling for his immediate resignation.
As per MailSport’s Mike Keegan, Manchester City fans planted a giant screen outside the Premier League’s headquarters on Tuesday claiming that the competition’s chief executive is being controlled by some of their ‘Big Six’ rivals.
A message to the @premierleague from those of us outside the cartel. Stop governing on behalf of them and represent the league fairly and evenly.
City, Everton, Forest, Newcastle, Chelsea, West Ham, Newcastle – who is next ?? pic.twitter.com/6490BtXxPo— TheOSC (@TheOSC8) October 22, 2024
Executives from across the Premier League were forced to walk past a flatbed truck which featured an LED board showing the badges of Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United and Tottenham with the caption ‘Richard’s Masters’ – in reference to Premier League CEO, Richard Masters.
The report details that the van was parked on North Wharf Road in Paddington, close to the entrance of the building where clubs attempted to thrash out next steps in what was described as a ‘feisty’ meeting around sponsorship rules.
The group claiming responsibility, called The OSC, posted a picture of the protest on social media, along with the caption: ‘A message to the Premier League from those of us outside the cartel. Stop governing on behalf of them and represent the league fairly and evenly. City, Everton, Forest, Newcastle, Chelsea, West Ham, Newcastle – who is next?’
Tuesday’s meeting was the first gathering of club officials since the verdict in Manchester City’s legal case against the Premier League over associated party transaction (APT) rules, with two aspects of such rules deemed unlawful by the tribunal.
The Premier League is now hopeful it can get an agreement from clubs on the new rules in the short to medium term, but Manchester City do not share the view that the matter can be resolved fairly quickly and have made that feeling clear via an email sent out to fellow clubs.
