Ok so many people have been listing Emiliano Insua in various transfer and squad lists. There seems to be a lack of knowledge about his situation and to be fair it isn't one that has happened to a Liverpool first team player that i can remember. Contract Firstly Insua's contract expires 30.06.2011. This means that one day before the transfer window opens in England his contract expires but we retain rights to his license. Under 23 As he is under 23, he is able to leave the club on a free transfer only if we release him from his license, however another team may sign him without our agreement but will then have to pay us compensation. This is part of the regulations in England that protect academies. Compensation The compensation covers training and development, rather than directly reflecting a player's market value- currently estimated at ã5,280,000 (transfermarkt). The training element is calculated by category- which footballing federation you are in and the training standards of the new club determine this. Liverpool for example are part of UEFA, and have top class facilities, so our training contribution would count as Category 1- which has a compensatory amount of €90,000 per year at the club. In addition, the FIFA principle of solidarity states that: "If a professional is transferred before the expiry of his contract, any club that has contributed to his education and training shall receive a proportion of the compensation paid to his former club (solidarity contribution)." Therefore we (Liverpool) would receive a proportional amount of any compensation. Furthermore in order to be eligible for compensation we must offer the player at least an equivalent value contract to the one he is currently on, unless we can prove we are justified in not offering one (his mistakes last season are not a valid argument here!). On top of this any amount of compensation can be adjusted by committee if it is deemed to be disproportionate. How much will we get in compensation? The best estimate i can see from the FIFA regulations is (if he were to move to a Premier League or equivalent club): Insua has been trained by us for 4 years so 4 x €90,000 = €360,000 minus (due to his previous training and development as Boca Juniors and the solidarity principle): – Season of 12th birthday: 5% (i.e. 0.25% of total compensation); – Season of 13th birthday: 5% (i.e. 0.25% of total compensation); – Season of 14th birthday: 5% (i.e. 0.25% of total compensation); – Season of 15th birthday: 5% (i.e. 0.25% of total compensation); – Season of 16th birthday: 10% (i.e. 0.5% of total compensation); €108,000 (30% €360,000) So we would receive compensation of €252,000 for Inusa from what i can make of things. Clear as mud right? Basically we have a few options: - offer him a new contract and he stays - offer him a new contract and he leaves but we get compensation - don't offer him a new contract and he leaves on a free - negotiate with an interesting club a fee for his exit (we basically agree not to drag it through a tribunal etc in return for a transfer fee but were still willing to offer him a contract) - he stays with us til January earning no wages at which point he can join any club for no compensation as he turns 23 I haven't been able to dig up any comparitive compensation deals unfortunately so if anyone can find some that'd help, so i'm not sure whether this figure might be adjusted as he's already had a reasonably high level career. This is just my best calculation. However this should help everyone making transfer lists and potential squads etc because you now know it is very unlikely that we will be receiving 'ã4/5/6million' for him. The compensation covers training and development, rather than reflecting a player's market value- currently estimated at ã5,280,000, unfortunately for us. Hope people find this interesting and if anyone with better authority has corrections to make i'm happy to oblige, i am but a humble law student. ------------------------------------ SOURCES http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/emiliano-insua/profil/spieler_45599.html http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/aff...8/97/regulationsstatusandtransfer_en_1210.pdf http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/aff...tegorisationofclubsandregistrationperiods.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Insúa
Good article. In view of what you have written above, what do you reckon the best option is then? I personally don't think we should offer him a new contract as I don't think he is up to the standard that is going to be required to make a title challenge. So therefore he would be able to leave for nothing.
Excellent in content but the typography has errors I'd like to elucidate on, for I am anal on the subject and at a loose end just now. Underlining should never be used in the modern age to emphasise. It's an old hack for monochrome monitors. The eye scans a line of text along the top, where all the detail is, occasionally dropping to catch the tail of a g or y. Underlining tries to drag the eye down. please log in to view this image For the same reason large blocks of capitals are difficult to read, as the detail is evened out top and bottom. As a rough guide: Bold emphasises. Italics whisper. CAPITALS SHOUT. So we can see that there's a conflict in using bold italics. Typographers work long and hard to make sure fonts do their job properly. Good fonts, anyway. If the proper italic isn't installed, your operating system will busk it and just lean the normal version. It's substandard and we as Reds deserve the best. Bullet points are another contentious issue but nothing separates like clear space. Research by Edward R. Tufte, presented in his tome, "The Visual Display of Quantative Information" found that bullets do not draw the eye as well as clear space. An indent works better than a dirty mark on a page. People fall in love with their wingdings and get really protective over them, as shown by the extended email discussion I recently had with a CV advisor. While I'm on the subject, though of no relevance here, you might want to reset your browser ergonomics. Browsers were designed by programmers, not designers. For this reason they made what they considered "cool" decisions, which were wrong. They underlined links as a default, for a start, and we've seen how wrong that is, especially when the link is already a separate colour. Pointless belt/braces scenario going back to those monochrome monitors, which couldn't see coloured links. The programmers chose blue for unvisited links but blue is a receding colour, better suited to visited links, which should recede back into the text while remaining discernible. Warm colours are better for "hot" links. Warm/hot, see? Once a link has been visited it becomes a "cool" link. This stuff works. Go into a newsagent's and witness how many newspaper and magazine mastheads are red. Red is the most important colour in our primal spectrum, signifying sex and danger. You pay attention to those things, right? Sadly, I have no control over the number of words spread across the page on this forum, otherwise it would be restricted to 10-12 words per line, like it should be for ease of reading. Look inside every book ever published in the last two thousand years and ponder how a Silicone Valley geek would know more than all that evolution. Of course the web was designed to be all things to all men, reformattable according to the reader's choice, but really, who adjusts their browser width according to the page they're on and who reads a webpage in a really thin window? Absorb or reject these points as you please. I merely hope I've illuminated a subject few people give two flying flips about. Next week: the difference between 'that' and 'which'.
So, anyway, Insua. What are the chances being out on loan has had a Spearing-like effect on him? He's another who was improving steadily. I read he's keen to return under Dalglish. Smart boy.
I'm not so sure, I'd like someone with more experience and Robinson as cover. I would'nt like either Insua or Robinson as starting left back so think we need to sign someone. Aurellio can't be relied on because of injuries. If we did buy someone then would we need both Insua and Robinson?
