Sancho is also playing with a team that's doubly as competent for giving him those stats as against Villa
I am still not sure on Sancho. His stats are great but haven't seen enough to know how good he is. would you guys take him in your squad?
He's one of the players of English golden generation in the list which includes Maddison, Declan Rice, Sancho, Mount, AWB, TAA etc
Grealish is a superb player. He’s carried Villa a long time and he needs that move to a bigger club to improve himself further. He’d fit right in at Madrid in an Isco / James role no problem, but we’re not interested and it’s his camp getting him a move to a big club and putting him on the market as such.
I don`t rate Grealish as Isco / James level. And even if he was i would still pass and go after highly dynamic and agile players such as Odegaard and Camavinga.
Manchester City's stars could walk away as free agents because the club have fundamentally breached their contracts, according to sports lawyer John Mehrzad.— Bolarinwa Olajide (@iambolar) February 16, 2020
Portugal didn't win anything with the Figo/Rui Costa etc. team and its still arguably their golden generation. Huge chance for them in 2004,and they ended up winning it with a much worse team. Pretty strange how things work.
Yep. How can being out of Europe or breaching FFP be considered a fundamental breach of contract? Unless the club put it in the contract, which I doubt they would. And I highly doubt that a court would infer an implied term into a contract. Think of the converse - would the courts allow the club to get rid of an old player on a big contract who they no longer needed because the squad didn’t make Europe, when his contract doesn’t mention anything about European football being required? The only way that guy could make a claim like that is if he’s seen the contracts. Which he hasn’t. I just read his thread about his views on twitter and it has lots of mays and coulds and arguables in it. He’s a QC and a sports lawyer but this is merely a line of argument he is putting out there.
I'm not a sports lawyer and I agree with you that your interpretation is much more likely, but I think that the logic would be less that they were not in Europe and that Man City had represented themselves fraudulently when engaging in contract negotiations and this material, negative impacts on the player.
I could see some players inserting language in their contracts about access to champions league football but saying contracts are void whole cloth seems like the type of nonsense that gets dismissed with prejudice
The remaining matches against top 10 club teams in Italy: Juventus 6 matches remaining against top 10 teams home games: Inter Milan, Lazio, Atalanta and AS Roma. away matches: 9th Bologna and 10th AC Milan. Juventus still has to play all 4 of the remaining top 5 teams.... all at home. Inter Milan 7 matches against top 10 teams Home matches: 8th Napoli, 9th Bologna Away: Juventus, 4th Atalanta, 5th AS Roma, 6th Verona and 7th Parma. Inter Milan plays 3 out of the top 5 teams.... all away. Lazio 6 matches against top 10 teams Home: 9th Bologne and 10th Milan. Away: Juventus, 4th Atalanta, 6th Verona and 8th Napoli. Lazio plays only 2 of the top 5 teams.... all away.
Most players have a contract that isn't valid for second division football, so City would have to be relegated for them to not have a valid contract with them. The only basis a player could have is to go to court and claim performance based bonuses (such as qualifying for the CL) that they can't get because of the ban.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer doesn't think Man Utd need the Champions League to attract players 🧐🗣 "I don't think if next season is with or without the Champions League, I wouldn't say that's the be-all and end-all for a player to sign for us." pic.twitter.com/UHVHuVdGrf— GOAL (@goal) February 17, 2020