Manchester City have reportedly secured a 'significant victory' in their legal battle with the Premier League, according to The Times.
The Premier League champions were embroiled in a separate battle case to their ongoing 115 charges case - which is set to conclude in the new year - involving Associated Party Transaction's (APT).
Earlier this year, City issued a 165-page claim against the English top-flight alleging that the APT rules discriminated against Gulf ownership. The regulation was introduced in September 2021 after Saudi Arabia's Private Investment fund completed their takeover of Newcastle United.
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In a tweet from Matt Lawton, he claimed that Pep Guardiola's side appear to have earned a "significant victory".
He wrote: "Manchester City appear to have secured a potentially significant victory in their legal battle with the Premier League after a vote on APT rule amendments was dropped from today’s meeting. Points to wider implications for the rules."
It is worth stressing that the legal battle is different to the case surrounding City's Premier League breaches. Last February, the Premier League issues City with multiple charges for breaching its financial regulations between 2009 and 2018.
And a further 35 charges were issued for failing to cooperate with Premier League investigations over a five-year period between 2018-2023, which the Manchester club strongly refute.
Previously in the APT case, City believed that the rules were implemented to 'deliberately stifle commercial freedom's of particular clubs in particular circumstances and thus to restrict economic competition'.
In June, The Times reported that the outcome could "dramatically alter the landscape of the professional game and have a further 'significant impact' on the ongoing hearing over the Premier League breaches.
And it has been suggested that a vote on amending those rules was dropped from a meeting between Premier League club shareholders on Thursday, indicating that City's legal challenge was successful.
The Citizens were looking for financial damages for the 'losses which it has incurred as a result of the unlawfulness of the FMV [fair market value] rules'. In their claim, they argued the rules were 'deliberately intended to stifle commercial freedoms of particular clubs in particular circumstances, and thus to restrict economic competition'.
