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The complexity would come in where the corporate structure is such that something has been hidden or sidelined to minimise (avoid) tax or dodge FFP. There are lots of accounting/law firms that specialise in setting up and untangling these arrangements and part of any restructure would be to...

However, the Europeans are excellent at setting arbitrary rules (just not so good at following them). EUFA or FIFA could write/impose the rules and it would for EPL,EFL &/or FA to just implement (less chance of the EPL setting their own pointless rules then!).

As above, tie the ruling to some other hurdle. And as for the fans. Easy enough to say the fan representive(s) on the ManU board must reside in an "M" postcode, must have held a season ticket for 10+ years and must themselves, meet some appropriate "fitness" tests to show they have clean...

Any ruling on 50+1 could be tied to Fit & Proper. Personally, I'm not completely sold on 50+1 as the panacea to everything, just replying to the original post. My personal view is "Fit and Proper" is the way to remove and ban for life the boards of all 12 clubs. Give them 18month to divest...

Easy to have 2 types of shares, one with voting rights and one with dividend/asset ownership rights. Just means that any decision which goes to the board, must have fan approval to pass. Doesn't need to involve the transfer of any assets, income or monies.