Manchester City are being urged to challenge UEFA's punishment for breaking financial fair play laws. Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont has urged City fans - and supporters of other clubs hit by the penalties - to join the action he is pursuing through the European courts on behalf of an Italian football agent.
"FFP sounds good,," he told the Manchester Evening News. "Who wouldn't support good governance and fairness of the game? But when you scratch the surface, the break-even rule is no more than a prohibition to invest.
"Uefa prohibits the owner of a club to spend his own money in the club, at least to buy players, in order to make it grow and to challenge the established top dogs.
"Today, with this rule, Roman Abramovich could not build his Chelsea project and turn it into one of Europe's top clubs.
"In other words, the rule ossifies the market structure. The few top European clubs will remain the same forever -- there will be no new kid in town."
Dupont also argues that the squad restrictions they have placed on City and other clubs contravene European labour laws.
"The whole Uefa home grown player system violates EU law," he said.
"This rule violates free movement of workers and harms free competition without solid justification.
"In other words, if any club or player challenges this rule tomorrow in court, the judge -- based on EU law -- will have no choice but to declare this Uefa rule null and void."
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