He obviously has a lawyer telling him he has a chance to win big money, they might have some evidence we are unaware of. Otherwise, I think he needs to review his legal team. If a group of guys who just support the club on a football forum can pinpoint he doesn't stand a chance, the man he is paying money to legally represent him must surely be telling him to drop the case. There is always the chance his lawyer just wants his pay check, but he wouldn't have took it on if it was an open & closed case.
The Chief Executive of Sunderland football club protected a nonce and allowed him to play and interact with children whilst knowing he admitted his guilt. If you really think you can compare the case of a kiddie fiddler to a contractual discrimination case then i'm flabberghasted.
You can twist it all you want Albert, my point was, even though in the two cases Newcastle had far more obligation to support their player than did Sunderland yet chose to support him less , the important thing being the money
Where did Newcastle not support him? In comparison to other employers. You don't know any of the facts yet as Chippy says you bring in a comparison involving Johnson. As far as we all know Jonas received his full wages for his full contract. Sunderland decided to play Johnson to save them from relegation. Not really relevant. Time to move on Freddie, time to move on.
Is that the reason he is suing them ? Johnson could not get a game to prevent them from being relegated
I get the impression that current and ex-employees of the club are lying through their teeth. In season 12/13, Jonas is virtually an ever present, gets diagnosed with Cancer at the end of season. Strangely enough, we don't replace him that summer, in fact, I don't recall anyone incoming other than Remy on loan. For Pardew to come out and say he wasn't in his plans before the cancer diagnosis is pure bullshit.
What is strange is that they don't play him until it's impossible for him to get the number of games in to get a contract extension. When that's gone, hey presto, he starts to be picked and in fact is deemed good enough to play in the most important game of the season against West Ham. His reaction to scoring showed the fans how committed he had been to them and as a result will always be fondly regarded by us followers.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Towards the end of contract he was recovering from his illness so they couldn't play him. There's nothing fishy about him not getting picked before he went away for treatment as his football was awful. Frankly, I think the club are within their rights to not play him if it meant giving a contract to a player they didn't want long term. I'm sure that happens with lots of players at lots of clubs and it's just part of the way football contracts work.
Hmm, wonder if that may have been down to the cancer?! I remember him carrying Jose Enrique for a couple of seasons without praise from the fans and then the same fans ****ing over Jose Enrique (until he left). I assume have cancer takes its toll on the body long before it is diagnosed. Also, Jonas himself proved how good he was in those last few games! In fact he pretty much did more in those last few games then certain other "stars" did over the whole season.
The point is though that when he was "cured" he probably trained the hardest and shwoowed more on the pitch then everyone else so for them to say he wasn't good enough compared to others is a complete fallacy. Now from a financial point of view, yes he wouldn't offer value for money in comparison as he was one of the last couple on big wages.
