That’s not an obligation though is it if we don’t have to buy him under certain circumstances. Tan did an interview saying it was an option
I don't think contract law allows that. Unfortunately some bloke called Wilberforce helped stop humans being subject to forced employment and all of that liberal hippy stuff... He was here on a loan contract til the end of June. No one can compel him to sign beyond that. The obligation is between the clubs. Ultimately the player decides
You're a complete moron. Disbelieving the official club channels because they don't support your elaborate theory. Baz has a track record of getting things wrong, it is a simple slip-up. If you want to read about obligations, go and read the JKA case with Leeds.
That's all wrong. Clubs and players agree terms months and sometimes years in advance. Chelsea sign kids years in advance of them being 18 and actually being allowed to register them
Can you ****ing guys not understand caveat and that a sentence in a statement doesn't tell the full story? Luton and City have an agreement that the player will sign a pre arranged contract for a pre arranged fee if he wants to. Neither club can back out of that, ergo obligation. If the player refuses to sign, then both clubs will be looking to the player to cover their investments and valuations, and it gets sticky. But ultimately, if the player signs the pre arranged contract then there's nothing city can do to stop it. It's not in our hands. Giles could decide to sit on his Luton contract if he wants to. But if he wants to sign our contract, we have to fulfil it. That's totally different to taking a punt on a kid with contractural triggers who's not gonna get a better offer elsewhere tho now is it? Contracts are all about small print. The words 'option' or 'obligation' being semantically discussed by folk spending too much time on the internet isn't going to influence reality. From the player side it could be described as an option. But if he takes our option it becomes an obligation.
Penny drops. It's semantics, but if the player decides we're the best offer then we pay 4m plus or minus a half season loan fee and we can't stop it. It's lowest common denominator stuff, but I'd have thought someone of average intelligence could imagine a scenario where both obligation and option are fair reflections of the scenario, depending on your perspective.
Baz reported it in Jan as an option. Quoting the club statement. Ultimately it is an option, but is in the players favour, not the clubs. We currently are in a 4 way standoff. Luton and city have a guaranteed fee. The player wants to go to Boro. Boro will offer him more than his agreed city contract, but they won't pay the fee. You think you can just say 'the club website said this' and make a credible argument? Get a ****ing grip son. Concentrate on your btex or something because you make **** up based on the club website, stats sites and computer games. Or at least that's how you present.. Now Baz, he's basically Acuns puppet. And he's correcting himself saying it's an obligation based on decent club sources. Only a Muppet would think he knows it all based on a single line in a club statement Vs someone who has a direct line to the owner. As I said before, time will tell, but it's not necessarily city who have the final say. Wind your neck in a bit, maybe you'll eventually be taken seriously.
I see Manure have agreed terms with Braithwaite £150-160k a week, but yet to agree a fee with Everton who are asking for £70m, though they are expected to agree matters. I wonder if that will push them forward to go for Greaves?
We don't know if he prefers us or Boro. We don't know if Tim wants him. We don't know if its an obligation or option to buy. We don't know if he has already agreed terms as part of the initial deal. We don't know anything but there's not much else to talk about The window opened today BTW
Interested in Stansfield, Windass/Reynolds a load of ****e and Giles is expected to complete a move but also Boro alerted to the situation and he might want to go there so aren’t sure what Baz is on about there.
Baz crediting us with an interest in Stansfield. Although I imagine so are the rest of the championship
Lets ask CHATGPT to settle this matter. When a football club agrees to an “obligation to buy” as part of an initial loan scheme, it means they are committed to signing the player permanently after a specified period. The decision is not optional; it’s a binding agreement. So, yes, they have no choice but to sign the player once the conditions are met1. ⚽
Ah but what you don't know is that we have posters who sit on the board meetings, they are there with the transfer team deciding who to buy and who to sell, they are there when contracts are being negotiated, fly on the wall has nothing compared to these guys. ITK.
So Bryan Reynolds isn’t a target, apparently. I would’ve thought he’d be a good option at right-back to replace Christie and challenge Coyle but Walter may have his own targets. Jusuf Gazibegović at Sturm Graz may be a target at right-back. Walter wanted him last summer for HSV. He actually played for Bosnia in the game against England recently. Defensively he’s pretty solid and he’s a set-piece specialist as well. We don’t really have a good free-kick taker in the squad now.
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