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  On 17/12/2013 at 17:18, Ian W said:

Possibly WOAT:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25418135

 

Imagine footballers being able to give notice!

 

Imagine the wages footballers would be on if that came into effect, the Daily Mail would have a meltdown. No need to stump up transfer fees but you could put the money into their wages to make it less affordable for other clubs to buy out the contracts.

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  On 17/12/2013 at 17:18, Ian W said:

Possibly WOAT:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25418135

 

Imagine footballers being able to give notice!

 

That's *exactly* what happened in Spain and the reason there are transfer clauses written in contracts (which are actually penalties for early termination), since otherwise players could cancel their employment contract like any other member of the workforce. I don't think there's even need to pay up the remainder of it.

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  On 16/12/2013 at 00:51, Dave said:

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Didn't realise how many of our players fuck about with their socks for matches. Tiote and Shola are doing this: http://www.trusox.com/how-to-wear-trusox.html

 

Trusox are great. They're well expensive, mind. Paid 30 quid a pair, but that's Norwegian prices. I've never seen them in any sporting store in England.

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"Footballers are workers, and only when they enjoy the rights enjoyed by all will Fifpro be satisfied," said the union's president, Philippe Piat.

 

:lol: Love shit like this. Clearly not compensated enough by the wages they get in comparison to that which 'all' are 'enjoying'.

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  On 17/12/2013 at 21:07, Village Idiot said:

To be honest, it makes very little sense that footballers don't have the same rights as any regular worker, high wages or not. And it's not like all footballers earn premier league wages.

 

Seriously, what?

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But, from a legal point of view (and yeah, I'm no law expert) it's hard to explain having a subset of workers not being able to cancel their contracts like others do. I have always thought it's a matter of time an EU court stamps on this, like it happened with the Bosman ruling and free agency/unrestricted registration for EU nationals.

 

To be honest it's sort of there, that's how you got Jonas.

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The flip side of this is that that they could get released from a 5 year Wes Brown style contract with only two weeks notice so there goes the money.

 

Of course it all depends what the contract between the club and the player stipulates, and what each side has agreed to to get the deal done.

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Surely what would happen would be it would become like American football and players sign contracts with the FA or something rather than clubs and then are allocated / traded between clubs who then pay the FA the salary or something. If players cancel the contract with the FA they won't be able to play.

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  On 18/12/2013 at 23:06, Deuce said:

Brazil U-17 squad, down 4-1, quits after their second sending off. Incident from 1:48:00 or so...

 

 

1:52:30 or so onwards...

 

"Half-back, passes to the wing, wing to the centre! Centre holds it! Holds it! HOLDS IT!!"

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