Player Power (1 Viewer)

[Desmond]

In the last couple of years we've seen lots of examples of players exerting their influence to overrule their own contracts and move clubs at will.

This season alone we've had arguably the two most high-profile transfer sagas that saw both players going on strike for the prospect of moving to greener pastures:Robinho and Michael Essien.

Both tried, and succeeded.

Whatever happened to "no player is bigger than his club"?Isn't there something illegal about all this?Are contracts meaningless now?In other words, couldn't Santos and Lyon have fined their asses silly before allowing them to leave?

Let the Player VS Club debates begin.

 

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[gray]

not much of a debate really, it's rubbish...

 

[Desmond]

Well do you think clubs should be able to do more about this then?

Theoretically every player on the planet could do the same if nothing could be done to stop it.

 

[Erkka]

Contracts are nowadays just way too easy to break.

++ [ originally posted by Erkka ] ++
this (Mexes-saga) is a fvcking joke!! What next year, Ch€£$€a to disable all contracts in the game through the court?! Incredible, that's what this is.

++ [ originally posted by Erkka ] ++
The lawyers of Auxerre and FIFA found out that THERE WAS NO MINIMUM FEE RELEASE CLAUSE. Auxerre didn't give Mexes the permission to join roma, but he still went to train with them, just like that. And roma did encourage him to do such an action, they encouraged him to break his contract. And you hypocrite dare to complain about Chelsea (for example Cole-case), while your filthy team is trying to ruin the whole transfer system. I feel sorry for Auxerre, they agreed to sell Mexes to ManU for a fee of £9.9M, (=15M€) but roma literally stole him for just 5M€(?).

Luckily the bastard himself need to pay that 8M €uros, he had it coming.

 

[Desmond]

What amazes me is just how easily their clubs let them get away with it, and the authorities have not made any effort to change the system or at least attempt to prevent them from happening again.

Because from what I can see, if nothing is going to be done there will be more of the same in future, and like Graham said, its rubbish.

 

[Zlatan]

I dont think anything can be done. You cant stop a player being unhappy if an offer is rejected for him, you cant stop him refusing to play. The worst you can do then is fine him, but that really does nobody good, so just sell him if you get the money you want.

We did the same with Emerson.

 

[Chxta]

That is why I still think that Jean-Marc Bosman should be shot!

 

[Kaiser Franco]

If you think a player has anything more than a symbolic decision power in choosing what team he will play for, you're in for a surprise.

The real puppet masters is/are the player's personal manager(s), people like Pasqualin and Pitta, pure products of the roaring 90's, when for a while it looked like only the sky was the limit of footbusiness.

These guys literally make millions every time one of their protégés moves to a new team. It is therefore understandable why they are so prone to blackmailing the club in order to revise a contract.

As for the Bosman ruling, it has little to do with it and it's only normal that a EU citizen be able to enjoy the same labour rights in any member state, even if he is an overpaid sport mercenary.

 

[Desmond]

++ [ originally posted by Kaiser Franco ] ++
If you think a player has anything more than a symbolic decision power in choosing what team he will play for, you're in for a surprise.

The real puppet masters is/are the player's personal manager(s), people like Pasqualin and Pitta, pure products of the roaring 90's, when for a while it looked like only the sky was the limit of footbusiness.

These guys literally make millions every time one of their protégés moves to a new team. It is therefore understandable why they are so prone to blackmailing the club in order to revise a contract.

Yeah, but I'm sure the players themselves wanting to move badly plays a large part in it as well.Why would they go on strike just so their managers could earn money?

Robinho for instance was ready to forgo the millions due to him in order to go to Real.

Nothing can really be done against these players, so shouldn't something be implemented to prevent the breaching of contracts?