Fans taunt Richard Masters with cheeky message on van as club chiefs arrive at Premier League shareholders meeting
PREMIER LEAGUE boss Richard Masters was taunted by fans ahead of a league shareholders meeting.
Masters, who has been CEO of the Premier League since 2019, was subject to a jibe from supporters on a billboard van parked outside the meeting in London.
Prem chiefs are in the Capital for their latest meeting with clubs and other shareholders this season.
And SunSport understands that one of the topics on the agenda for the meeting today is summer transfer window dates.
But when the bigwigs from around the league were all arriving, they were greeted by an electronic billboard van that read, ‘Richard’s Masters’.
The play on the league CEO’s name was accompanied by the badges of Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham.
The same billboard van was parked outside the Prem’s shareholder meeting back in November too.
That meeting saw the league’s 20 clubs vote in favour of new Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules, following a majority 16-4 vote.
Since then, Man City have won an independent tribunal case against the Premier League regarding the previous APT rules.
Masters wrote to all 20 clubs last month, conceding the “previous rules as a while are void and unenforceable,” but insisting “new rules were voted into force” and that clubs must comply with them.
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The Premier League remain in a legal battle with current champions Manchester City over their 130 Financial Fair Play charges.
Masters offered an update on the court case at the Business of Football Summit last month.
He said: “The disciplinary panel needs to be given time to come to their decision”.
Chelsea fans have this week written a letter to Masters over their own owner Todd Boehly.
The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust have voiced their fury and concern at Boehly’s connection to the controversial company Vivid Seats.
Since investing in 2021, Boehly has been a director at the business which resells tickets for Premier League matches, including Chelsea fixtures, at hugely inflated prices, often thousands of pounds above face value.
The American firm is listed by the Prem as an “unauthorised ticket website” and tells fans to “exercise extreme caution” if dealing with them and other exchange sites.
Tickets for Chelsea’s London derby at home to Tottenham on April 3 are available to buy on Vivid Seats for more than £2,000 at the time of writing.
For the Liverpool game on May 2, prices range from £442 to more than £3,200.