Do you think tapping is right?

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Inkblot

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Do you think tapping is right? Or that clubs who persist in doing it should be penalised by having a fine & points deducted?
 
It's wrong, just like Agents working for both a Club and a player in transfer negotiations.

If a Club is involved in tapping up then for the first offence the Club should be fined 10% of the players total salary for the contract period... for a second offence this should be increased to 25% and a points deduction/European Competition ban as appropriate.
 
It's wrong, just like Agents working for both a Club and a player in transfer negotiations.

If a Club is involved in tapping up then for the first offence the Club should be fined 10% of the players total salary for the contract period... for a second offence this should be increased to 25% and a points deduction/European Competition ban as appropriate.
Agree 100 percent. Yet this has been going on for years but the FA and the EFL do nothing about it. I wonder why that is? (joke).
 
Agents find it so easy to get round the rules that the laws of the game may as well not exist. As long as there is such a huge wage differential between clubs the problem will continue. It's something we just take for granted now. For instance if Grant were to score 30 goals this season and have 20 assists but we still don't go up, no-one would expect to see him next season, whoever the owner is. The idea that if a club wants another club's player (or manager come to that) they will start off by approaching his club and ask permission to speak to him seems a quaint old-fashioned idea. The media plays its part too of course in "unsettling" a player.
 
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