Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

Pogba's ban is reduced. He can start training in 2 months time and playing in 5 months time.

 

The broadcasting companies just suck at streaming man. Can someone tell ESPN not to show the scores for live games before you start the feed? If I miss the first 30 min of a game, I want to just open the game and rewind to the beginning (or Ideally have the app ask me if I want to start from live time or beginning of the game). Right now I have to ask my wife to do that to avoid the million spoilers everywhere.

 

Nico Paz was the best player on the pitch during the first half against Napoli away. Como dominated in a big way. However in the second half, so far 73 min, he' s been invisible like ał Como attacking players

 

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Paramount is better, but app is a bit sluggish and if you rewind a live game that goes into extra time it ends the game for me when the live game goes to extra time. I prefer streaming over cable, but I don't get how companies spend billions on TV rights but their apps are at this level.

 

Man, if I had to pay each service to watch La Liga, UCL, Brasileirão, Libertadores, and Copa do Brasil, I would be spending A LOT. It's just unfeasible. I need all those competitions in one service with a VERY reasonable price to switch from alternative methods.

 

The price is killing the deal in France re Ligue 1. People were williing to pay 9-10 euros a month no problem. If you're at 19,99 euros, you need a proper channel with other leagues and programming. This is JUST for Ligue 1. The whole concept was stupid.

They need to create a proper channel then they'll get their 1 million subscribers like Amazon last year and Canal+ in the past has.

LFP in France is a shitshow. Not that La Liga with Tebas is much better. But Spain is far more passionate about football than French people. Other than Marseille, Paris and Lyon... nobody lives or dies for football in France.

 

I found it funny that Richarlison has his face tattooed alongside R9 and Neymar. Dude doesn't lack self belief.

 

Read through the Diarra verdict and commentary on it.

To me, it says that a player can break his contract and find another job. However, it does not stop the party that broke the contract to get sued for damages for breaking it. So although a player can break their contract and look for a new club without impediment... that player does have legal liability for the contract he broke.

For large contracts, this isn't an issue imo. That would be massive liability for a player so it's unlikely that they'd break their contract.

This could impact smaller clubs that develop players. Once a player can earn more money somewhere else, he can just break his contract, pay the damages per the contract and sign with a bigger club.

The way to circumvent the ruling is to put a clause with severe damages for breaking the contract. So a small club could put a quasi "release clause" in the contract as punitive damages for breaking the contract.

The only real impact is that FIFA and UEFA cannot stop a player from finding another job after breaking their contract, which they can now. I think this is a good thing potentially.

 

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Yeah, but you should look at the reasoning for such layoffs. If the ground for layoff is for 'economic' reasons (e.g. reorganisations etc.), then it's a bit easier to lay off large numbers of employees. That's generally not the situation at hand here. The layoff here would typically be grounded on underperformance of an individual, which is generally a very high threshold, though I imagine that will result in some interesting cases in the context of football.

 

Oh, I'm certain every single legal department of football clubs, lawyers active in private practice and other relevant parties (such as agencies), are already working on alternatives to mitigate the consequences (if any) of the verdict. In fact, I'm certain that work had started prior to the verdict (because that verdict isn't that surprising from a legal perspective..). That's just how it works. I'm also aware that it won't be a free-for-all situation, benefiting the players (only), but it is a (slight) shift in the balance of power however you look at it.

And btw, my comment(s) was just to make a nuance to your original post. I'm not saying clubs are done and players will get all the power, lol.

 

The Forlan family. Diego, his dad and his grandad all played for the national team and all won the Copa America

Slightly different, but in England we have the Allen family, who are well known here as a number of them became footballers. Clive Allen being the most well known, as he was one of Spurs best players in the 1980's. A load of cousins, uncles, brothers, kids etc all made it. Must have been some interesting family get togethers!

We also had the Wallace brothers in the late 80's and into the 90's here that were well known. They were twins and an older brother, and they all broke through at Southampton roughly at the same time in the top division and the 3 of them played in the same team together

 

NFL has a model like this where every contract is basically 1 year deals even if it’s longer term on face value. Two quirks:
- The signing fee acts as the guaranteed money for the player. Not the lifetime value of the wages, which is year to year because a player can be released at any time. Club is responsible for the wages for the year he gets released and and remaining payment on signing fee
- clubs can designate a couple of players a year as “franchise players”. This means that the player has to stay, assuming there are still years left on his contract. But, the wage has to be adjusted to be among the top 5 at his position.

Not saying this is the right model for football. Just pointing out how another league handles a similar situation.

Again, development clubs who rely on transfer fees are completely screwed.

 

The Germany example is “at-will” working contracts, which most people have. Not long term work contracts, which higher executives get.

Again, the ruling states that a player cannot be stopped from finding other work if he breaks a contract. It doesn’t state the player is not liable for breaking the contract.

Same thing for a club. They can fire a player but they remain liable for the contract terms broken. So I don’t think it changes anything for clubs.

Basically, makes a football player like any other employee. The issue was that a player who breaks a contract was restricted from playing football for any other club… until now.