Masters has opened 2025 with a sit-down interview with a new Sky Sports podcast, but hardhitting and in-depth it was not.
Listening to him speak, you would not know this is the man leading the Premier League in the middle of a titanic legal battle with its defending champions, having lost a courtroom fight with the same club in recent months forcing a significant rule change.
Masters did reference the Profit and Sustainability Rules that require changing after City successfully proved the old version was against UK competition law.
After trying to explain the new proposed rules, comparing them against UEFA's, he said: "We think [the threshold for permitted losses] is the right place to put it at and see if the clubs vote it through during the course of the season."
That is where the legal talk stopped.
There was no talk of the independent panel in the PSR case ruling so damningly against the Premier League (although their statement in response claimed a baffling victory so that isn't a surprise) and not even a question put to him about the 115 charges against the Blues which were heard at the end of 2024.
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