Bosman is the exception. Football is allowed more freedom than most industries. For example, you can freely walk out of your job, subject to notice but a footballer cannot. The law is the law but its applied differently. Football by rights, has its own laws and regulations that in many cases, usurp international/national laws. They get around a lot of it by making most competitions invitational.
Football doesn't have different laws - just different contracts. That's where legal challenges come in. In just about any walk of life, if two parties make a willing agreement, signed in front of independent witnesses, there is a legal case to make. You can only negate that contract by proving that one party was not fully informed of the implications and consequences of their actions. I doubt that would ever be the case with either DeGea or United.
Let's just leave it at, there is no release clause in his contract. They don't exist in the English game.
http://www.danielgeey.com/buy-out-release-clauses-in-football-the-basics/ Oh yes they do!...they're called release clauses, but amount to pretty much the same thing.
Fair enough. Buy out clauses are different mind but you have shown a few examples of a release clause in the English game so I concede the point. I doubt a team of our stature has included such a clause mind. It seems from your example (and I only scanned it, I'm watching SAFs interview on sky) that its smaller clubs who include them to allow promising players an opportunity to move up.
The cited case of Joe Allen is interesting in that the clause stipulated that he could only go if one of five clubs bid for him. But yes, in general it's used by clubs like Swansea to make sure they get a fair price when a bigger club comes calling. It does demonstrate that it's quite possible that there's a similar clause in DeGea's new contract.
Call me optimistic but I think Real may well have left a sour taste in De Geas mouth. They have handled this very poorly and II am De Gea understands this. Perhaps he will move in the future. No doubt speculation will never end and it will become very boring. It would not surprise me if he moved next year of stayed for 5 or 6 more seasons tbh.
True, who knows. It was a ridiculous situation anyway. This long and ludicrous game of brinkmanship, only for the whole deal to get ****ed up at the last minute!
