The ideal scenario is that both Michu and the club bury the hatchet and start again unfortunately the reality is that he doesn't want to play for Swansea and the club don't want him near the place. The best outcome would be for Michu to move on quickly and restart his career and we would be free of him for good. The worst scenario is that we release him from his contract by paying it up. The only thing that is definite is that Michu will not be allowed to return to the club.
Michu or any Pro footballer for that matter, would never procrastinate over finding a new club, so if Michu has not found one soon, then something is up with his fitness, his agent should have no issues finding a new club for Him, if he is fit, unless he is dragging his feet over the pay cut, which would be substantial, as Spanish clubs are struggling in this current economic climate, they do not have the resources of the Premier league, and this is something Michu should have thought about before bitting the hand that fed him. I have no sympathy for the lad, and I'm pretty sure Huw will get a satisfactory resolution to this Michu saga. .....
He won't have a pay cut for the next year, he will earn £40k a week circa £2m from the game, if an overseas club doesn't pay him that figure then the swans will have to top it up for him.
This is what i dont get....Why should we top up his wages for anyone...? He is the one refusing to honor his contract ......We were ready for his return remember and if he had any sense he should have returned even if it was to use our facilities and to get fit. So as far as the club is concerned he has chosen to snub his contract and do things his way.......Well the clock is ticking and he is no more forward than when the seasoned finished and once the window closes and he still has not agreed terms with anyone then the season starts with him being registered as a Swansea player and he will have to return or face his contract being terminated......What idiot would pay him £160,000 every month.........jinx is not an idiot and binding his time until the current window shuts and he is in limbo........
He would not be allowed to return even if he wanted to. There is no way the club will have him back. They will pay up his contract if they have to but he will not return and thats definite.
There is a contract Dai that is legally binding on both parties, this contract is until June or July 2016, if we want to pay it off thereby releasing Michu we are more than welcome , it will cost about £2m unless another figure is agreed. In regards to honouring contracts, you don't really know that at all! You are making a huge assumption there without verifiable facts. You need to get off this Michu is responsible for everything, he's not there's some bad blood on the club's side as well, which if I remember rightly was between monk and him. The idiots who pay are the same idiots who's wage bill sits at £63m a year, those idiots realise that paying someone a rather large salary is the cost of doing business in the premier league
I dont get you....you are saying the contract is legally binding but only in michu's favour....The club has to accept that we will have to pay him over £2m because he dont want to come back.......Are you nuts why would we do that....We have granted his wish to find another club so we have been more than fair but when the clock runs out what idiot would say ok then there's £2.m something have a good life..... I cant see jinx and the board being happy with not only losing £4 million we value him at but give him over £2m on top.......Do you call that good business because i dont and i doubt jinx will either......the clock is ticking so i hope he finds a club soon....
No the contract legally binding on both parties, you don't appear to comprehend what that actually means! The reason why we would honour the contract is because if don't there will be consequences if we don't, those would fines and sanctions from all sorts of parties that have an interest. I think you are simply out of your depth with this Dai, that's okay as you are just an ordinary fan who can only see it from the perspective of the game, I think you should leave it to us fans who have much more knowledge of how these things work than yourself. i think it means that discussion is over unless you want me to teach how things are?
Sorry if he dont find a club before time runs out then he is legally binding to report back to the club...what part of that dont you understand.....We are not going to keep paying him for nothing and he cant afford to be without a club and all it offers for a season.......why you cant understand that is baffling unless you are winding me up.....
Yes indeed, and it will be aprox 50% cut in wages if he signs for any La Liga team other than RM or Barca, which is never going to happen. Maybe this is why he is dragging his feet on signing for a Spanish side, and if we have told him to stay away from the club, then he has us over a barrel, and maybe with his disposition and the history around the Laudrop and the Spanish expulsion then you can understand from his viewpoint, I'll stuff the Jacks and be damned...............
To be honest I think we are getting off lightly, normally when a player has an outstanding season clubs have a tendency of extending the contract for another year or so, give a pay rise and increase the buy out clause. It didn't happen in this case, and you have to wonder why? Could it be that the club could see problems even during the season he played for us? This might have been the catalyst of why he wanted away.
Jäger - I thought we did improve and extend his contract during the first season. I looked and found this http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article/michu-new-contract-613810.aspx.
Quite sadly, I can see Dai's point. If we don't pay him, we breach our contract with him. If he doesn't work for his pay, he's breaching his contract. Now I get the notion that he might have been told he's not wanted, but they should be calling his bluff and telling him to come back and train or we're gonna stop his pay. At least then he'll forced to return (unlikely) or be pushed to find another club.
A contract only exists if the services and conditions described in it are being met Jager, they are not guarantees of payments between parties, that's simplifying it too much. For payment to be triggered, conditions predefined in the contract must be met. Service need to be provided before payments can be made. I doubt very much whether we are paying Michu's full contract any way. Probably we are paying an amount predefined and akin to footballs equivalent of a basic salary which doesn't include any bonuses. I think that the 'idiots' you describe Jager, who run our club, are a shrewd bunch when it comes to wages as contracts are heavily load to reflect individual performance, team position and club success. Player contracts with us have been performance and target based for decades. They offer many opportunities for players to earn mega money through the teams success on the pitch. That way the club can ensure that all its playing staff are reading from the same hymn book and dancing to the same tune. Individual wealth is based on team performance and this is THE corner stone of our clubs philosophy as well as being THE key to our clubs success. Its why we don't have, or tolerate, Prima-Donnas. No individual is bigger than the club and because of this Philosophy the club is greater than the sum of its parts. After bonus deductions, appearance bonus, win bonus, goal bonus, club bonus, have been taken into account, I imagine we are probably paying Michu half to a third his potential contract value. The Elephant in the room though is, why has no club come in for this one time 'goal machine'? No one has approached us and only clubs apparently interested in a no fee, low wage, no risk deals have allegedly been in touch with Michu. Not even Laudrup has come in for him and his club can afford twice what Michu earns with us. This is the surprise and the mystery in this sorry saga. Why is Michu's current market value zero. Jazz Richards had a value, even Tiendalli has a value of half a mil, so why does Michu have no value in today's market when just a couple of years ago we could have got £20M for him. What is it that clubs know now? Why is Michu, apparently, not desperately looking for a new home? Why are we, apparently, ambivalent to the situation? we just don't seem to care either way. This is what we should be considering and not dwelling on whether Monk slapped Michu slapped Monk, or who likes who, or who's responsible for what, who cares? I don't because that's not the real story here. The real story is WHY
The contract can be superseded by instructions by the club, if he's been told to keep away then he is abiding by just that. And I would gather that if he's been told to keep away he wouldn't be able to get those bonuses because the club is preventing him earning that, so I should imagine in light of that he would get something akin to when he was playing for us. I think before anyone says that he is in breach of contract they should consider that they don't know what that contract says, and that making such assumptions could be very wide of the mark. As for other clubs approaching us over him, I would bet a fairly large amount that some have, and they have offered to take him on board providing the swans tops up his wages, they won't pay for him at all, and the club is trying to come out of this without egg on their faces, they will have to come up with a package that suits all parties soon enough, as Dai would say the clock is ticking for us
A friend of mine was talking to one of the club's directors when Michu was injured the season before last. The director said that Michu's injuries were such that he would probably never pass a medical ever again (apart from possibly in Russia - don't know why that is...) Having said that, he has been on loan to Napoli, which contradicts what was suggested. Anyway, my point is that he may be sufficiently crocked for no-one to take a gamble on him.
Thanks Aswan, heard so many things buddy. Two which stick with me are: His injury is not an injury but an ailment akin to rheumatism or arthritis. This is the oddest though. He does have an unfixable, inoperable injury to high ankle ligaments in both legs caused by an accident he had when he came off his skateboard. I also heard that this is when he and Monk had their altercation because Michu had been told not to ride his board and that he'd promised he wouldn't. If he does have some rheumatic aliment then irrespective of what Monk thinks, we should let him see out his contract with us. On the other hand, if he does have a 'self inflicted' injury then fekk him and good bye.
