Player Contracts No More?

Chaos incoming?

 

Does that mean the Jude is to rip up his Madrid contract and join his brother?

 

Who would he replace, we can’t just sign squad fillers willy nilly

 

Have I watched a different version of The Truman Show?

 

Yeah this has about as much to do with the cable guy as it has with the Truman show.

Madness that.

 

I'm guessing he's making an anology with Truman trying to go on holiday being blocked at every turn, with our strategy finally being correct and now this spoils it all

 

I'm no legal expert, but as this guy is a football journalist I'm sure he isn't either


Basically, you can terminate a contract with just cause or without just cause.

If the club feels the player terminated a contract without just cause, it can go after the player (and potentially the club who signed him afterwards). But if just cause is there, then the signing club, and player, are protected.

This ruling means, I think, that instead of fifa or sports tribunal, cases like this will go to court (where cause or not will be proved ). Lawyers win.

On the flip side, clubs could potentially terminate contract early, without paying the player (or manager ?) if they feel they have just cause to do so.

 

The notion of transfer fees is one that doesn't sit comfortably alongside things such as contract & employment law. This might just be the beginning of the end of players being signed for £50m when their contract value is considerably lower than that.
What is likely is that clubs will insert notice periods into contracts to protect themselves.
I for one will not shed a tear if transfer fees are abolished and clubs just have to pay up a player's contract if he opts to "resign" and join a new club.

 

Ruling isn't anything to do with transfer fees

 

I agree with you on fees crazy system..I just don't see how clubs can get out of this circular movement of monies .They have hundreds of millions of spend on their books and owe each other over long periods of time. Maybe somebody with financial knowledge can enlighten us .

 

I didn't say it was, but there will be a knock on effect as a result. Clubs will think twice about spending £100m on a player who could effectively resign a year later

 

At end of a day it's meant to be a sport with a level playing field (yes, I know).
Surely we can't just apply normal working laws to a sport.

 

Fifa brought this on themselves.

All they had to do was say that Charleroi would not be liable for any of the costs owed to Lokomotiv, which makes sense as the dispute was between the player and Lokomotiv. But they didn't and Diarra had the balls to take them on in court for loss of earnings.

Will be interesting to see where this goes.

 

Just thought the thread title was an updated line in letter from America!!