Of course there is ...If you are sacked then you are not fulfilling your contract and not doing your job to the satisfaction of the club. If you are poached then whoever is responsible must pay compensation....Do you think laudrup deserves a £4.5 payout because i don't. that's crazy money for anyone who has earned a shed full of money and only been here a short time....He is being greedy just like he has been everywhere else....Ask him to pay his £2m tax bill.....but that's ok....If we pay him £2m then that would be more than generous. he is not worth that in my opinion...
If you are sacked then you are not fulfilling your contract - That is not necessarily true and not doing your job to the satisfaction of the club...If that is true, why wasn't anything done prior to the sacking? Who was his boss? Was he disciplined? Was he given any written warnings? Was he given any support or help? If he wasn't the Club are in trouble. If you are poached then whoever is responsible must pay compensation....Irrelevant Do you think laudrup deserves a £4.5 payout because i don't. It's irrelevant what you/we think. It's about what the Club is obliged to pay. that's crazy money for anyone who has earned a shed full of money and only been here a short time....Irrelevant He is being greedy just like he has been everywhere else....Irrelevant and only your viewpoint Ask him to pay his £2m tax bill.....Irrelevant (even if you can prove he owes any tax) but that's ok....If we pay him £2m then that would be more than generous. In your opinion, which is irrelevant in this matter. he is not worth that in my opinion. Which is irrelevant. The issue of compensation is about legal requirements, not your opinion.
As usual Dai you show yourself to have very little understanding of the real world. A contract is a contract, signed by both player and club. The contract is there to protect both manager and club. If the manager wants to go else where, the club gets handsomely rewarded, and the same is relevant if the club wants to get in someone new because they think they can do a better job, the manager gets handsomely rewarded for the club breaking the contract. The club at the end of the first season extended the managers contract, so they obviously felt he had a terrific first season, else they wouldn't have extended, (yet we have you saying different) but then they knew he would not stay longer than the 2nd year as he already made that clear, yet they still gave an extra year, a year past the date that ML said he would stay til. Why? Because the club were hoping to cash in, well they f**ked up big time, and I have no issues with Laudrup getting a big pay day, and rightly so, because I am one in the camp that thinks that he should never have been sacked. And if the club are deemed to have treated him unfairly in his dismissal, I hope he takes it further, because our board need to wake the f**k up to reality and realise they cannot back stab managers out of their jobs. Its the second manager they have done it too in the last 5 seasons, enough is enough, time for our board to stop being so amateurish, and grow a professional back bone.
Im very switched on when it comes to football.....Why should a manager who gets sacked receive a reward for doing a crap job. Anyway the point is how can he justify £4.5m ...That is a huge amount of money for the top managers not small clubs like us....£2m is still a huge amount for a club like ours. Its a lot of money that does not represent the job...He wont get that amount anyway but all the same he has a cheek to expect that..
Now bare in mind he is contracted until the end of next season, which your looking at say June 1st. (allowing for cups and **** to finish) So, we have a full year (52 weeks) plus from now until June, which is 17 weeks, so a total of 69 weeks left on his contract, which if the £4.5m is correct, would work out at about £65k per week, which I am guessing is his wages. And if those are his wages, then he is very much entitled to that payout. You say that he should not be entitled to it due to him doing a crap job, now bare in mind that the board have not backed him this window, got the Ki debacle wrong, then he would have a pretty damn strong case that the board haven't fulfilled their end of the bargain either. So swings and roundabouts.
Im very switched on when it comes to football.....In your opinion. There's nothing like a bit of self promotion Why should a manager who gets sacked receive a reward ....Because it's in his contract (a legally binding document on both parties) for doing a crap job...That is your opinion. A well drilled lawyer will dispute that and quote ML's achievements, including the Clubs position when he left. 12th in Prem, last 32 of a Euro competition and in 5th round of the FA Cup Anyway the point is how can he justify £4.5m ...He doesn't have to. It's in his contract which is a legally binding document on both parties That is a huge amount of money for the top managers not small clubs like us....Then perhaps we shouldn't have signed the contract £2m is still a huge amount for a club like ours. Then perhaps we shouldn't have signed the contract Its a lot of money that does not represent the job...Then perhaps we shouldn't have signed the contract He wont get that amount anyway Are you legally qualified to confirm that? Have you seen his contract? but all the same he has a cheek to expect that. It's a sum of money that he is entitled to because he has a signed contract which is binding on both parties
Well said and I agree with this completely, while I like Laudrup and his season last year, this year was something else, and it was clear to me that with the way that Sousa was treated, that I could see us doing the same again, remember we elbowed Sousa out after him achieving one of our highest positions in the table with no backing in January from the board and no real striker all season, all because Jenkins cannot handle these high profile Managers. All this pulling the rug from underneath our managers in an attempt to get them to jump, is for me underhanded, and showing no class whatsoever, and it's getting a habit, but don't think for once this is all to do with Huw Jenkins, because 'Bob the builder' Martin Morgan is a cheapskate fly by night too, and these two hold sway over the board, and always work in tandem on such matters, it's why I warned you all that I could see them sacking Laudrup after the Cardiff game, though I didn't realise how desperate the two were to get shot of him, but there you go, it's done now, lets hope the fall out can be contained from these two small time Charlie's. why oh why can't they be honest open and transparent and decent in their dealings when terminating a managers contract? PS: I can tell you a fact, that they are getting a reputation in the local business community for being a pair of rank cheapskate small timers, bit of a shame, and completely unnecessary!..............
Paulo was not up to it mate, if you'd like to sit here and discuss the merits of Paulo I've got all night. We had a lucky escape, just like now. And time is on our side. Join TMT, you know you wanna.
Like Laudrup he had his failings, and I've said that many times on here, but there are ways of dealing with it, and we are always doing the underhanded way, that's the issue, I'm happy that Laudrup has gone, the same way I was with Sousa's football, which nearly drove me to sleep at the Liberty, but swanselona makes a valid point, and we need to do things differently!.............. Stick some TNT under Jenkins seat on Saturday!......
Paulo's still trying to make his name of our club. And Michael Laudrup is suing us. F*ck 'em all it's all about SCFC!
I agree that if he gets a big payout then it's the clubs fault for giving him an extra year. They were greedy and are now going to have to pay the price for that greed. Happens all the time in football, but sometimes doesn't work out.
Brendan Rodgers or Roberto Martinez would also do a great job for us, although no hope of them coming back.
And so he should, we owe a lot to that man, and he never gets the recognition he deserves. He was the reason for our solid defence under Rodgers, which gave us that edge when it came to gaining promotion, and without Sousa we would never have gone up IMO. Yes the football was boring, but it was a transitional phase in regards to how we have played and got to the premier league. After all in his first season, he had finished higher than Martinez did in his attempt. And was just 1 point from making it to the playoffs, which considering how boring we were playing, was also remarkable. We scored just 40 league goals if you remember, and had the second best defence in the league, Newcastle beating us by 2 goals, and they run away with the title. And if ML is suing us, then there may well be a good reason, for the way the board went around his sacking, you cannot blame a guy for looking out for himself, if the board have done wrong.
They all have their flaws: Biesla sounds like a great manager - maybe too attacking - but he sounds like he'll be a disaster waiting to happen with the board. Garcia sounds interesting, but not set the world alight at Brighton. Di Matteo might be a good choice - hard to say what type of manager her is (Success being ultra defensive with Chelsea, but over-attacking at WBA)
