http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/former-sunderland-boss-roy-keane-1443166 Still rumbling on: Roy Keane is suing Sunderland four years after leaving 17 Nov 2012 23:00 The former boss claims he is owed money by the club and Ellis Short and has been told by lawyers that the matter will go to tribunal Troubled times: Roy Keane resigned in December 2008 after only two years at the club Rex Roy Keane is suing Sunderland â four years after leaving the Stadium of Light, writes the Sunday People. The former Black Cats boss claims the club and owner Ellis Short owe him money as part of a deal reached when he resigned in December 2008. Lawyers have advised Keane, now an ITV pundit, the matter will be decided by tribunal. No date has been set for the hearing nor has the amount of money involved been made public. Click here for more stories from the Sunday People It was unclear last night whether Niall Quinn, Sunderland chairman at the time of Keaneâs departure, is also implicated in proceedings. Keane, out of football since being sacked by Ipswich in January last year, left Sunderland after 100 games with the club languishing third from bottom following a run of six defeats in seven. Quinn said at the time: âThe board has reluctantly accepted Roy Keaneâs decision to go and wish him and his family well for the future. âI would like to give thanks to Roy for all his hard work in progressing this club, lifting its status and growing its worldwide profile.â In his first management job, Keane won the Championship having taken over with Sunderland 23rd in the table. He kept them in the Premier League the following season, but in his second campaign the team struggled and he stepped down. A spokesman for Keane said: âRoy is seeking the payment of monies which were promised under a compromise agreement when he left the club.â If he is owed it then we should have paid it? No question a contract is a contract but if he isn't, then I hope our Billionaire Texan owner take the greedy ****er to the cleaners in court.
That's just what a contract is though. You're given a 4 year contract, and if things are going badly then you have to give me something to stop me receiving my wages.
So how come contracts only work in one way in football? IF you aren't doing what you are paid for, or doing it badly there should be no problem sacking you. Only then should arbitration be required. If you resign all bets are off!
Like the BBC GS though isn't it. If you get to a certain point/level in life or at an organisation they just throw money at you constantly. It doesn't stop, even when you're sacked or walk you get a **** off severance of £500,000+
If he quit then the contract is usually automatically void. What normally happens is that the terms of the original contract are varied via a compromise agreement. That sets out the terms for the parting of the ways and obviously covers the money, if any, that will be paid to the former employee. It's surprising that he's suing now, as it suggests that he has not been paid something he thought was due under the compromise agreement. The club presumably don't think he is entitled to anything more.
Made worse by the fact we pay their wages at the BBC. My license fee was supposed to pay for a TV channel and couple of radio stations. Not dozens of TV channels and innumerable radio stations. Or now a fortune spent on websites. And the ****ers closed the only one I was interested in BBC606. It's about time they had to pay there own way. Not us paying them money to squander.
