Cannon plays 20 min in friendly against Tottenham. https://www.espn.com/soccer/commentary/_/gameId/702834
Cannon does not play in friendly against Reading. Bad sign? https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2024/july/27/QPR-friendly-report/
If he has an offer elsewhere and its finalization is in the closing stages, then it's a good sign. Otherwise it's further confirmation of his marginal status
If he stays is on the bench again his will be maybe the career that fizzled the most ever without major injuries. Just one bad decision leading to another etc.
This might explain Reggie’s lack of minutes / absence: Boavista won their case and Reggie owes them almost €1.3m. QPR are also liable for like 50k. They are also going to appeal the deception. we will never hear the end of it from chesspanther
I think that's saying Boavista are liable for that amount. If I'm understanding this and other reports correctly, it sounds like Cannon and QPR are jointly and severally liable for €1.3m, plus interest, for Cannon terminating the contract without just cause, while Boavista are liable to pay Cannon €78k, plus interest, which is either fully or mostly due to outstanding wages. That makes me think maybe there were in fact unpaid wages that Cannon and QPR thought provided just cause for terminating the contract, but that FIFA disagreed. But hard to know without more information.
Reggie Cannon lost his court case against Boavista for unilaterally terminating his contract. He now owes the Portuguese club € 1.287 million. What a mess https://t.co/Ym3mrbQGxv— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) August 9, 2024 Nope looks like Reggie owes it. Worst YA move of all time?
I'm not sure who you're disagreeing with, but yes Reggie (jointly and severally with QPR) owes the €1.287m. However, Boavista also have to pay a much smaller amount in the other direction. Here's an English language summary if the link above is confusing: https://bolavip.com/en/soccer/usmnt...-to-pay-boavista-over-1m-in-court-case-defeat
wow this is brutal a club can not pay 78k in wages but somehow the contract is still valid?? once a club stops paying wages...the contract should be voided, imo not to mention boavista still hasnt paid fc dallas their transfer fee yet
I should clarify, while some of the articles I'm seeing are saying that the entire 78k represents the amount of unpaid wages, other articles seem to be suggesting that the 78k consists of 45k in unpaid wages and then 33k on top of that as some sort of penalty or fine related to the unpaid wages. As to whether 45k or 78k in unpaid wages would allow a player to terminate their contract, I'll defer to anyone who's familiar with employment law. Though I suspect it may turn on how late the club were in their payments and what sort of timeframe and procedures, if any, the contract provided to allow the club to cure their breach before the player could take drastic measures.
Good thing he didn't burn bridges domestically.... What about indentured servitude? Might be preferable to train & sit on the Boavista bench for a couple yrs, as opposed to paying this back while toiling for Stevenage, et al. It's gonna take a while.
The only way to make this right is to have Reggie Cannon pay FC Dallas to play for them again (like a youth soccer pay to play situation, only this time for a professional team)
He didn't realize how good he had it and let a couple of knuckleheads make him think all the fans hated him. Since then it seems every move he's made has taken him down a bigger rabbit hole.
Very bad precedent set by FIFA there. Basically young players have to put their lives in the freezer when playing for a deadbeat club that refuses to pay them their salary.
If it's only 45k, then that was probably 2 months of salary for him at Boavista. I'm not the contract lawyer you seek, but that seems pretty slim on reasoning to break the contract.
Presumably he will appeal to the CAS and this will be stayed till that is resolved. I’m not sure if FIfA releases the text of such decisions but the CAS generally does. I’m also not sure why the penalty would be him owning Boavista that amount versus it being his rights reverting back to them.
Cannon is not even in the squad today for QPR in their opener against West Brom. I am curious how losing this case affects him mentally and how it affects his relationship with QPR. What worries me for Cannon is that QPR knew about this matter when the signed him. You wonder if there was "hold harmless" agreement between them that Reggie would be on the hook if he lost.
The 78k Boavista have to pay Reggie seems to be roughly 60% unpaid wages and 40% penalties which, as @tomásbernal noted, is likely to be two, perhaps three months' salary being paid late, not never being paid. In law, that's not usually enough to void a contract entirely and in sports customary "law" as UEFA and the CAS interpret it, otherwise there are a lot of leagues which would never be able to function due to one or more teams facing mass walkouts mid-season. Where YAs are concerned, Standard Liege are one club that spring to mind: Marlon Fossey has had some acid remarks about that towards the end of last season
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