Love the intrigue. Guessing that there are several clauses that change according to relative league position.
the obvious facts are that a done deal means one that has been signed and not subject to change. both deals are obviously not the case.
Club will protect themselves whilst agents are seeking to get best deal. Time acts as a great negotiator.
Go get him Cerny!! Wigan lost, we're not bottom 3, so no big difference with our league position right!
my point is that if it's a done deal, there is no more negotiation! everything has been signed and stamped!
Cerny, i would stop digging if i were you mate. just hold your hands up and one or two may forgive your new found wum status!
Don't take it from me - remember what The Guardian's Secret Footballer opined in August: You need an agent to drive a deal otherwise nothing would ever get done. It is also worth remembering that this is a two-way street. Clubs turn quickly from gamekeeper to poacher when they are replacing departed players, and when it comes to shifting their dead wood they know that the most effective way to do so is for an outside agent to make calls to their contacts at other clubs. My manager told me that between the end of the season and the end of the transfer window he receives up to 30 calls a day from agents offering him players, and very often players that he knows to be contracted at other clubs. In my case I knew I was moving in the window but that did not stop both the buying club and the selling club trying to run the clock down in the hope that the price would go up or go down depending on which side of the boardroom table you happened to be sitting on. In the end the selling club blinked first. Because of that we got the usual fun and games with the notorious last-minute hitch – my new employers tried on the age-old tactic of unnecessarily leaving things until the last possible moment, meaning that the final contract was faxed over with roughly half an hour to spare in the hope that I would sign it hurriedly and fax it back. The contract was missing all of the previously agreed bonuses and, if I had put pen to paper, I would have been worse off than when I started. This is such a common practice when time is short that I am almost embarrassed to mention it, yet a few players have had their fingers burned over the years because their agents missed a trick. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/26/secret-footballer-transfer-deadline-day
i fail to see how a done deal in football is different to any other signed contract between two parties. if i am wrong, then please explain it and i will gladly apologise.
If you don't know how these things work that's your own problem but don't dig others out when you know naff all.
1982 a done deal means a maybe deal depending on league positioning!. You then offer a prize for guessing this 'maybe deal' date!. You then tell people to think about it logically and hope that you don't receive any sh*t for doing so. the bloke is one in a million
