Man City Supporters Club announced it has "voted unanimously to join the legal actions against FFP" following a meeting, according to Simon Bajkowski of the MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS. The statement read, "Far from implementing a true 'financial fair play,' this rule is in fact a prohibition to invest that prevents ambitious owners to develop their clubs, that therefore shields the established European elite from being challenged (this elite being unsurprisingly the main sponsors of the UEFA rule) and that, consequently, puts additional financial pressure on supporters (higher prices and lower quality)." The legal challenge to FFP is being led by lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont, "who famously helped footballer Jean-Marc Bosman win the right to leave his club on a free transfer at the end of his contract." Dupont said, "The UEFA rule is, in terms of European competition law, an anticompetitive agreement since it prohibits a club owner to invest his or her own money in strengthening its workforce, the players" (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS, 9/24).
