Contract offers

MagicSean

If an employee is offered a new contract and they don't accept it does this free them from their old one? I'm just wondering how this applies to footballers. If a footballer is offered a new contract and they refuse to accept does this make them free agents in regards to accepting offers from other clubs? Contract law was never a strong point of mine so I may be way off here.

chopser

No, they are still bound by their old contract. The new contract is seperate and designed to replace the old one with different terms so if they don't sign it they stick with the original contract and see out its terms and then when it is up they would be a free agent.

MagicSean

I thought there was a rule in which a new contract offer invalidated the old. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong kind of situation though.

k_mac

k_mac wrote: »

I thought there was a rule in which a new contract offer invalidated the old. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong kind of situation though.

That's only where a new offer cancels a previous offer. Where an existing contract is in force an offer of a new one doesn't invalidate the existing contract.

Victor

k_mac wrote: »

If an employee is offered a new contract and they don't accept it does this free them from their old one? I'm just wondering how this applies to footballers. If a footballer is offered a new contract and they refuse to accept does this make them free agents in regards to accepting offers from other clubs? Contract law was never a strong point of mine so I may be way off here.

Are you thinking about the rejection of an offer? For example, A is selling his car, B offers 10,000 Euro, but A rejects this. When nobody else makes an offer for the car, A returns to B and demands he pays the 10,000 Euro for the car. B refuses as he has bought a different car. A sues B. The court rules that A's rejection of the offer of 10,000 cancelled the offer. However, what could be done is A could enquire if B would pay more - this is an enquiry, not a rejection.

Note that footballer's contracts tend to be for a fixed period of years.

MagicSean

Victor wrote: »

Are you thinking about the rejection of an offer? For example, A is selling his car, B offers 10,000 Euro, but A rejects this. When nobody else makes an offer for the car, A returns to B and demands he pays the 10,000 Euro for the car. B refuses as he has bought a different car. A sues B. The court rules that A's rejection of the offer of 10,000 cancelled the offer. However, what could be done is A could enquire if B would pay more - this is an enquiry, not a rejection.

Note that footballer's contracts tend to be for a fixed period of years.

Yes I think that must be what I'm confusing it with.

Reloc8

As Victor says in sporting situations the contracts are for fixed terms, therefore rejection of an offer of a new contract has no effect on the status of the existing contract, which will expire whenever it is set to expire.