Adu: I've been to Hellas and back, now it's time to Rize up

Not to me. If given a chance to settle into a side and then given a run of games, and if he then does these things, you'd think that you'd have to play him and be happy, no?

(Then again, he was scoring at a torrid pace for Benfica when his minutes were slashed in half and then to nothing. Short sample size, but still, why sit someone who's scoring goals?)

Yes, that would be maximumly optimal. (And, apparently, harder to find than you might expect.)

 

Any word on when these playoff games are?

 

Originally Posted by TimB4Last
Google gets it right ...

Quote:
SPECIAL TASK ADU'YA ..
Hope Kayihan coach, ice melt, take more responsibility in the game is an American star Freddy Adu'dan leadership wanted to do. Freddy Adu did not work the last weeks League away matches, TKI. Lignite match performance with a goal scored and put it on the form showed. Hope that resolves the coldness between them with Adu Kayihan coach, an American special task was to match the star Samsunspor. Kayihan, Adu'dan leadership to do in the game and the defense team to be taken between the positions of balls scored his friends wanted to bite. Black players Kayıhan'a giving assurances in this regard, his teacher at ease.

... or at least partly right.

And more importantly, what is a "Lignite match performance"?

 

Lignite = Linyit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK%C4%B0_Tav%C5%9Fanl%C4%B1_Linyitspor

It's TKI, the team the played.

oh, and someone asked about the playoffs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–11_TFF_First_League#Promotion_playoffs

They're next week.

 

Freddy Adu: Returning to MLS wouldn't be easy and I would like to stay at Rizespor
The American, who credits U.S. coach Bob Bradley for his recent success, says he's happy in Turkey but considered a return to Major League Soccer in this exclusive feature

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1614...rning-to-mls-wouldnt-be-easy-and-i-would-like

 

Even more intriguing than the section on Bob Bradley is this part:

Now this wasn't exactly how the Greek newspapers portrayed the situation.

 

The newspapers and the press secretary of Aris sure did a good spin job. Being shut out of playing time was always about the money.

 

However, chances are the Greek papers were right and Goal is, as usual, full of shit.

Did that little Greek sports tribunal skip their minds?

 

= nothing

A deperate club trying to save some more cash.

 

Eh, Aris thought they had a cause. They went to court. They won. Freddy didn't appeal.

And that makes the Goal article a pile of garbage.

As usual.

Who's their editor?

Oh, right ... Andrea "FieldTurf kills" Canales.

'nuff said.

 

Actually, Andrea is the editor of the US portion of the site. Last I spoke to her, she doesn't have editorial control over the stories generated out of Europe.

 

Wasn't the whole case about Adu training with another club while under contract(loan) with Aris? So, say Freddy was given the choice to take a pay cut or not play. He chose not to take the pay cut, but was left under contract and did not play. Then trained/trialed at Randers, which is where he was at fault. Since I imagine that they put neither ultimatum nor the alleged permission was put into writing, Freddy didn't have a case. Aris seized the opportunity to save some money.

 

Very like another case of Adu's being poorly advised, although perhaps he doesn't take advice well. But I also seem to recall Aris saying that Adu had not arrived in proper shape for pre-season training, though I might be conflating two different episodes.

We tend to be Adu-centric - or at least American-centric - in our thinking, but cases like this must occur 'all the time.' That is, a club sours on a player, or the club's financial position worsens, so they want to dump him (or halve his salary, etc.) but they can't.

So they say, "Okay, Freddy, you can practice with the team, but we're going to fine you $100 every time you touch the ball." No one needs to spell it out, the message being, "You're not welcome here."

Presumably the players have some protections and a formal grievance procedure to follow, if they feel they have been mistreated. In Adu's case, he may have tried to pull a fast one and slip off to Randers unnoticed, putting Aris back in the driver's seat, allowing the club to wiggle out from under.

Happily, Adu's now with a club that wants him, and he seems fully motivated to push himself forward.

 

What exactly did Aris "win"? The right to terminate a contract in late November that Freddy was planning on walking away from 30 days later? Why would Freddy even bother to challenge it?

Aris' lawsuit was like a girl trying to break up with you after you've moved all your shit out and not spoken to her in weeks. It's over Freddy! I really really mean it!

 

The title left off the part of the quote where he says "if we get promoted." I hope he considers Rize even if they don't get promoted - he needs a bit of stability, even if he's capable to play at a higher level.

 

Thanks for the clarification was knitting my eyebrows over how a match performance is similar to fossil fuels.

 

You are right. These things do happen all of the time and FIFA is very well aware of it. Here is a very recent story from former Toronto FC midfielder Rohan Ricketts about his experience in European football. http://www.column10.com/2011/05/rohan-ricketts-moldovan-nightmare-forced-to-play-unpaid-and-leave-the-country/.

In some places (Is suspect Greece is one of them), the law is one thing and reality is something completely different. Money talks, and it is a simple risk/ reward equation for leaders of these football clubs to decide not honor player contracts. The FA of Greece is going to value future support from Aris FC over Freddy Adu 10 times out of 10, so who do you think they will side with in any dispute? Also, it is not beyond the realm of possibility for Aris to have paid the legal officials, say $50k, to save from paying Freddy Adu another $200k. North American business ethics, such as honoring contracts, can not necessarily be applied to everywhere else in the world. In some countries, stories like this are business as usual.

 

^^^^^that right there

 

Something like €425K, which was their entire share of his contract for 2010-11.

BTW, they went to the Greek sporting court and won there. The sporting court and the entire federation is still under the aegis of FIFA. If Adu felt aggrieved, by it, he could have challenged the ruling in Zurich.

For comparison, consider the case of the Serbian kid, who was strong armed into giving up his contract in Russia. He protested to FIFA and the RPL made the Kuban thugs pay the guy's full salary.

There's absolutely no reason for Adu to forfeit $600K, if he didn't have to.

This is Greece, a member of the European Union, not North Korea or Taliban FC.

As Tim said, this is very US-centric discussion by the US-centrics.

OK, thanks for the correction.

There's no reason to beat up on her, if she is in the clear.

 

Aris fans are great. Amazing, in fact. Media reports, official club stances, and supposed insider leaks, though, often sounded like they came straight from Baghdad Bob.

If it wasn't for the flip flops and internal inconsistencies, it would be easier to take their accounts more seriously. Heck, given Freddy's track record (i.e., inability to latch on anywhere), many, if not most, would have simply taken their reports at face value.

For example, yesterday the team is livid and Adu is not a man of his word because his agent convinced him to back out of a promise to slash his salary, while today his €800k salary has nothing at all to do with his situation and you are a fool if you believe the team cares about that in the least (um, I got that from *you*, before you changed your story).

Or, he showed up clearly out of shape (let's just ignore timeline inconsistencies for now) and is not the useful player he was advertised to be anyway, thus we want his salary off our books in the worst way and refuse to let him train...yet we are appalled and livid, hearts absolutely broken, when he *betrays* us by trying to find another team that will actually take his unwanted self and unwanted salary off our books, giving us...gasp!...what we want.

Look, it's not hard to believe a team doesn't think he's useful enough to shell out €800k a season for. (In fact, I was surprised they ever thought that was a fair figure to begin with.) If they'd just said that and stopped there, most would believe them. I still believe this to be true (after all, while he was decent enough on the wing, that's a lot of money).

It's this posturing - like they think you're stupid (not saying we aren't, btw. ) - that's comical at times. It was theater. For the Greek courts, their own fans, I don't know...but theater, nonetheless.

 

The color of money.

 

"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Maybe that's overdoing it a bit.

If Aris did not pay Adu, did Benfica (have to), or did Adu go unpaid (and if so for what period of time)?

 

Benfica is still paying there share of his salary.

 

Are you conceding that Aris stopped paying him last August when he wouldn't take a pay cut?

Or do you think Aris paid him until he violated his contract by trialing with Randers without approval?