They'd be completely right. Based off the other compo fees floating about, it should be a few million IMO. Especially this close to pre-season starting.
That said, I don't know if there's ANY precedent for a tribunal deciding on managerial compensation. I think its going to require us to agree between us. This is if its Marti of course. Its why I'm not getting excited that it is.
You can just see this falling apart with us being unable to agree a compensation fee, it'll leak out QPR fans will slag him off and he will be sacked within the first 12 weeks - and our new manager will be... who knows
No real update. Just discussing the potential compensation if we were to go for Cifuentes. Nothing concrete to say we are.
Yeah. I think clubs have to start looking at head coaches in the same way they'd look at a young player, spend the fee and then in 2/3 years another club will come in and pay £10m+.
As I said I don’t think there is a tribunal but it would be covered by a claim around employment and contract law through the courts.
As far as I'm aware and I'm not in the know of what the ins and outs of negotiations then I would think that's high so wouldn't be doing it, however you have stated that qpr want 900,000 which I would be prepared to pay
If he's got a buy out clause in his contract then QPR don't have a leg to stand on, even if the timing is ****e. But if they quoted us 900k back in May, and that quote was just what they demanded then, I'd be very surprised if that price hadn't gone up 2 or 3-fold
I know what you mean but I reckon once a manager is finally appointed, a decent signing announced and a home kit released, the positive energy will flow back
Re-read I have been saying the opposite, my source says it is in considerable excess of 900K, "in excess" means more than.
When some club takes our next head coach off us. Tribunal goes like.... SAFC "3 year contract. We want 3 years' compensation!!" Other club "but you haven't held onto a head coach for more than 3 months since 1953...."
Frankly if its more than a million or so I'd argue they should have already moved on. Paying more than £1m compensation for a Head Coach that isn't guaranteed to work out is just silly. There are so many good coaches out on the continent and we are supposed to be able to identify these and pay peanuts compensation.
Ok, so can you give us a figure of what you're source is saying. If it's the £3 mil which is what you're suggesting to me it is I would say offer him a contract and let's see what a tribunal comes up with.
FAR IN EXCESS OF £900k could be millions more. Is there a difference between “in excess of” and “considerably more than” and “considerably in excess of”? Sorry, not being pedantic, genuinely interested.
