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Release Clauses

  • 06-06-2012 4:48pm
    #1
    cson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭


    Whats the point of them exactly?

    Porto apparently had a €100m+ one in Hulks contract but he goes for a third of that. I'm wondering; why bother?


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  • #2
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    cson wrote: »
    Whats the point of them exactly?

    Porto apparently had a €100m+ one in Hulks contract but he goes for a third of that. I'm wondering; why bother?

    Aren't they required by law in some countries?


  • #3
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,434 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Des wrote: »
    cson wrote: »
    Whats the point of them exactly?

    Porto apparently had a €100m+ one in Hulks contract but he goes for a third of that. I'm wondering; why bother?

    Aren't they required by law in some countries?

    Yes.


  • #4
    cson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Ah I see, whack it up high so.

    Thanks gents.

    /close thread.


  • #5
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Why bother with contracts at all really. Rooney is the first example I thought of, signed a new contract with Everton and left a year later. Players can come and go as they please irrespective of contracts. Not worth the paper they're written on.


  • #6
    Liam O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,602 ✭✭✭✭Liam O


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Why bother with contracts at all really. Rooney is the first example I thought of, signed a new contract with Everton and left a year later. Players can come and go as they please irrespective of contracts. Not worth the paper they're written on.

    Yeah sure Ronaldo's only cost £80m to break. I could go on and on about how wrong that statement is.


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  • #7
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Why bother with contracts at all really. Rooney is the first example I thought of, signed a new contract with Everton and left a year later. Players can come and go as they please irrespective of contracts. Not worth the paper they're written on.

    Nowadays contract just dictate who has the strongest position in negotiations


  • #8
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Why bother with contracts at all really. Rooney is the first example I thought of, signed a new contract with Everton and left a year later. Players can come and go as they please irrespective of contracts. Not worth the paper they're written on.
    I'd argue the contract meant a lot. The new contract put Everton in a far stronger negotiating position. Do you think they'd have gotten bids of £20m from Newcastle and £25.6m from United from a player who wanted to move on if he didn't have three years contract left?


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