According to a Daily Mirror exclusive, Neil Taylor has taken legal advice about suing SCFC. Newcastle want him for £1m, but Swans want £10m. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/tra...a-to-seal-Newcastle-switch-article752441.html With the Ipswich fiasco ongoing as well, it seems that the Swans need to employ some lawyers who can word the contracts in a way that allows less interpretation.
It is a bit daft if we asked for £10m for him. Newcastle were probably expecting to pay a little more than the £1m release so we should ask for a more realistic sum (maybe £3m) to start negotiations. Asking for £10m is like sticking you middle finger up and telling them to **** off and that's idiotic because lets face it, if the boy wants to go there is no point in holding on to him... Or It could just be a slow news day and the red tops needed a story to sell a few more of tomorrows chip wrappers.
It's the daily mirror with that numpty of a head reporter, don't think we are obliged to obliged to sell the player if we don't want to, these contracts are standard things and can be downloaded, it will likely go to arbitration though, I doubt very much that the swans want that much!
I highly highly doubt the credibility of the Mirror, and anything by that journo in particular. If we asked for 10mil Huw is funnier than I thought!
Maybe that's the problem then. They shouldn't be downloading standard contracts, especially if the wording is a bit vague. If they contract says that Taylor can speak to another club, but the Swans don't think that means that he can be sold for £1m, then the contract should explicitly say so. There's no real excuse for such shoddiness in contracts that are capable of gaining or losing the club a few £million. Of course, we don't know how much of what's in the press is true, but this is the second case within a few days that issues with contract wording have been mentioned. The Swans really need to tighten up this area.
Unless it says "a fee of one million guarantees a transfer should the player desire" or something else to that effect, then fine, so be it. I really don't see it though. If the contract says he can talk, then fine, spend the rest of your career jibbing away with Pardew if you want, but that doesn't mean we have to accept anything.
Did I say they actually did that ? All I am saying that contracts that can be downloaded like that are iron clad and not open to challenge by either side, but let's face facts here we don't know the exact terms here and there is no way that a player under contract can say the contract is unfair when they signed it, I would believe the £1m clause just says you can talk to other clubs, but we are under no obligation to sell at that price, this is a standard clause in all football contracts, the only thing that changes is the price!
Posted previously on this. But in a nutshell, leave the idiot train with seagulls on Swansea Bay and ban the clown of an agent from the club. Whether the rumourd are true or not he'll never play for us again. Could you imagine the reception at the liberty for him? All this crap is coming from that cockroach for an agent.
Of course it's coming from his blood sucking agent, but we will stick to our guns on this, if the toons want him they must pay for him, it's not really the money issue it's sending a message of sod off we don't want or need your business , we won't roll over for a rival to take players on the cheap !
Is it really that difficult for people to understand? £1m buy out clause means we can buy him for £1m! He can't speak to us with out agreeing a fee so if it means £1m it takes to speak to us then the fee is agreed. Your small club just got greedy! Look at Phil Jones going to Man Utd, Blackburn tried the same and failed
Errr, no. It clearly is difficult to understand because there is no buyout clause. A bid of one million gives him permission to speak to you, but doesn't mean we have to sell him, otherwise the offer would have been accepted.
Shola our small club holds all the aces, we don't need the money from your club for this player, it's a shame you have come here with your superiority complex, we don't have sell him to yours , get used to the idea of our club playing hard ball to the alleged big clubs, and as yours is in meltdown and has had about 20 managers in 5 years, we are protecting his interests, as pardew will be gone by the new year
Yea, i'm sticking with Jenkins on this one. He usualy gets it right. I think English Prem clusb are trying to bully us, possibly because of the Welsh thing. I get that sense living here in London. peoples attitudes towards having a Welsh team in the league is quite interesting. Huw did the same sort of thing with the Bodde-derby saga. Stick to your guns Huw and the rest of the board!
Don't blame Swansea for hanging on to get as much as they can for him, and I reckon that if we did end up doing business it'd be for 2 or 3 mill. Certaintly wouldn't want to pay a penny more than that for a player that's only had one season in the Championship. We've already had our fingers burnt with Perch from Forest who hasn't made the step up. But ten mill??! Christ, we could get two Tiotes for that! Even if Jose goes, he's still only going to be a bench warmer. TBH I don't know why he wants to leave - Charlie Adams only benefitted from staying at Blackpool and showing the rest of the league what he can do, and now he's got his pick of a few clubs. Taylor should do the same - but that's the loyalty of footballers for you!
Asprilla yeah I guess he will go for that amount, the mirror article is crap if you ask me and his football agent is desperate for a deal to go through, so don't believe the figure bandied about, as for why he wants to go it's money probably, but I am mystified why your club is interested in a player playing non league football a year or so ago, he will be a bench warmer for you at most
Well said AsprillasFurCoat. I've seen nothing to make me believe he has a 1million "must sell" clause, and I think 2 or 3 million is, sadly, a fair price in todays market.
looking at this from another angle, how much damage is this and the Ipswich affair going to do to your ability to attract new players
Ah completely man. Quite pissed off with that smarmy chief executive if what Huw said about having correspondence 3 weeks ago and hearing nothing since until this is true. In the statement the guy said "I'm delighted for Swansea and wish them all the best"... err, well clearly you don't by trying to get a transfer embargo in place for something that is clearly going to be seriously easily solved. Now god know's what prospective players are thinking, which stinks considering our recent (8 years or so) financial record. Players should have no worries coming here, they might not get paid loads but they'll always get paid, and this Ipswich thing isn't going to help our burgeoning reputation one bit.
theres no way we have asked for 10mil, notice how its only the mirror reporting it. i wouldnt wipe my arse with that rag there's enough **** already on the pages.
