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Will Sunderland Be Promoted from LEAGUE ONE? 0 = No chance 10 = Definitely  

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  1. 1. Will Sunderland Be Promoted from LEAGUE ONE? 0 = No chance 10 = Definitely

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1 minute ago, Ben said:

Fuckin football is currently getting absolutely rinsed by agents and players, it could be sorted in a heartbeat if they got together and agreed a salary cap

Clubs could always just decide they don’t want to pay agents if they didn’t feel they’re worth it. Players should be able to earn anything they want imo though.

 

 

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Unlucky Luque

Unlucky Luque

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6 hours ago, Disco said:

Cost them £5.7m to settle the Ricky Alvarez debacle.

 

Never knew how bad the whole Ricky Alvarez thing was. What an absolute shitshow.

 

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Sunderland signed Álvarez on September deadline day 2014. Álvarez initially signed on loan with a view to a permanent switch if Sunderland avoided relegation. Álvarez made his Premier League debut on 13 September 2014, playing 65 minutes in a 2–2 draw against Tottenham. He scored his first and only goal for the club on 3 February 2015 in a 3–1 win against Fulham in an FA Cup fourth-round replay. Álvarez suffered an injury to his right knee during a goalless draw with Swansea City in September 2014, which limited his appearances for the remainder of the season to 13 league games.

Sunderland avoided relegation and triggered the conditional obligation to buy Álvarez outright for €10.5 million. However, the club did not wish to buy Álvarez due to a dispute with Inter Milan over the player's fitness. Following Alvarez's injury in September, Sunderland had approached Inter to get their approval to carry out surgery, but Inter refused. The automatic purchase clause in Álvarez's contract would have been void if the player suffered a flare-up of a known case of tendinopathy in his left knee which had then prevented him from playing. Sunderland's medical team claimed that the injury to his right knee had been accelerated by both the left knee tendinopathy and a previous micro surgical repair in his right knee which had not been initially disclosed by Inter. They argued the combination of factors voided the contract, and Sunderland were therefore not obliged to buy the player.

In 2017, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Sunderland were liable to pay Inter the transfer fee, rejecting Sunderland's argument on the basis that Sunderland's medical team had already found evidence of the micro-surgery to the right knee during the player's medical, but chose not to follow this up with Inter at the time. An appeal of the same ruling of FIFA was rejected. Nevertheless, as the transfer to Sunderland was considered complete and Álvarez did not sign a new contract with Sunderland, he was de facto a free agent after the expiry of loan meaning Sunderland were not able to recoup a transfer fee for the player when he later signed for Sampdoria.

In August 2019, after a lengthy legal battle, a FIFA tribunal ruled that Sunderland were liable to pay Velez Sarsfield €362,500 as part of the FIFA solidarity mechanism. On the back of the announcement, Sunderland's chairman also revealed that Álvarez had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the amount awarded for lost earnings during the first half of the 2015–16 season while his contract ownership was under dispute. If Alvarez wins the appeal, it will take Sunderland's total costs in relation to the Alvarez deal to more than £20m.

 

 

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et tu brute

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8 minutes ago, Dokko said:

Plymouth equalise but down to 10 men.

Winning now, looks like they're going to be playing Blackpool in the play-offs. Doesn't look like Charlton are going to be there though, which is a shame.

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Just now, et tu brute said:

Winning now, looks like they're going to be playing Blackpool in the play-offs. Doesn't look like Charlton are going to be there though, which is a shame.

Was just thinking they’ve probably made it harder for themselves by going ahead. I’d think they’d beat Lincoln over two legs, the way Blackpool’s results are going and the fact they’ve done the double over Sunderland the last month makes it trickier.

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If they do manage to go up, has this new owner indicated he is wiling to spend some money, their team looks very poor and it will cost a bomb just to stay in the division 

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