Yeah, and you'd know. If he quits a release clause is irrelevant anyway. His future salary isn't the cost of securing him by the way. Didn't really think that needs to be pointed out but clearly it does.
It’s a cost to be factored in if Utd give him a binding contract. Yes it can be amortized, but it’s still a cost.
It's not the cost of securing him. It's his wages over the next five years. You know, like everyone gets wages.
Nowt legal about it, NSIS is talking tosh and I'm setting it right. How can you seriously add five years' worth of future wages into the cost of securing someone? Too long on the politics thread arguing with idiots that.
Not everyone has a binding contract for say 5 yrs. longest I ever had when I was working was 1yr. The average worker - one month, if they’re lucky.
Then he can be prevented from taking a manager’s job with anybody until the contract either expires or is paid,
No, of course they don't. Nor will United pay it all up front as a lump sum so it still isn't included in the cost of securing him.
Or in the real world you'll accept what they offer because he's made it clear he wants to go. Absolutely no way you'll get £50m.
In the real world Levy plays hardball when he wants something. So in the real world he’s very likely to insist the contract is paid in full.,
Trying to get us to act like Southampton Why should we accept it without putting a spanner in the works at the very least? See you're acting like you know your place again in the football pyramid
Again, thats not how compo works. Find me one manager who had a long term contract and the compensation was the full amount. Just one.
Yeah I realise how that came across, I didn't mean you'd accept the first offer just that you're not gonna say 'pay the whole contract or no'.
Yes it does. A contract is just that,. It’s a legally binding agreement between two parties with defined terms. Either side is completely within their rights to hold the other party to the terms of that contract.
Go on Bob tell us how it works...I'm sure you're an expert on compo by now considering how much Chelsea pay out to sacked managers
None of us knows what Poch’s contract states. I have drafted plenty, over the years. It is usual, with these types of contract, for the parties to set out very clearly “notice periods” for termination. With most professionals, there is usually a requirement for three months’ notice. I don’t know what notice provisions are in Poch’s contract, of course, but I would be surprised if there was not a provision preventing him from leaving mid season. Of greater relevance will be any “restraint of trade” clause that might seek to prevent him working for a competitor within “so many months” of leaving us. If Poch wished to join United within the timeframe of such a clause as this, that is where Levy would be able to demand and expect to be paid compensation. Whether or not he could reasonably demand the figures being bandied about, I do not know.
