was hardly going to say in his 100 appearances interview on Forest TV that he'd like to go to Spurs ASAP
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One suspects they will come around when it becomes clear how effectively they've mugged off Spurs here, though crushing this deal does not solve their Gibbs-White problem over the longer term.
I think he's burned his bridges.
Hence why Forest have come up with the tapping up / breach of confidentiality claims. The clause is legit, but this nonsense muddies the waters enough to allow them to stall, even though tapping up and sharing contract details must happen all the time.
I feel like Spurs maybe fumbled this, if they went in cold with an offer matching the release clause, rather than informal talks to prepare the ground, so that when the bid came in Forest accepted what was going to happen. But who knows what really happened, Marinakis seems less than rational at times.
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Nope. Forest not cooperating with the transfervdoes not mean they are In control.
Most serious football commentators still believe he will come to Spurs once Forest realise they do not have a leg to stand on.
Might take time to happen which is inconvenient but not fatal.
Forest problem Is that player has refused to extend contract and makes it clear he was ants out. So Forest have an unhappy player and no obvious exit route out of this problem atm
If he hasn’t then we need to ask him if he’s prepared to burn them. If he isn’t then the move is off and we move on.
MGW and Forest will have their own problem then. We can find another player to sign
The only person with the legal right to compel Forest to proceed with the transfer per the release clause is Morgan Gibbs-White, and due to some combination of unwillingness to exit the club on bad terms and he and his representation fearing further action regarding the breach of confidentiality around the release clause, he has blinked and is not treating this as the violation of his contract that it is.
Barring total reversal of Gibbs-White's attitude, this is over.
This is the relevant question, though it's definitely tricky for Spurs to get clear information given that they have been loudly and expressly refused any contact with the player's side.
If Gibbs-White were willing to do this the ugly way, we would already know it.
Forest problem Is they had to put release clause into contract to get player to sign when he joined. So Forest must have realised it would be exercised
The other problem for Forest is any other player thinking of joining Forest will worry they can never leave given Forest behaviour over Gibbs White
The other problem for Forest is any other player thinking of joining Forest will worry they can never leave given Forest behaviour over Gibbs White
Not if we are a serious club
There’s no way Spurs have stopped communicating with MGW and his agent.
Literally ZERO chance
When have we ever shown ourselves to be a serious club.
“Who are you going to sue & for what?”
It depends if it was a voluntary breach of the NDA or an induced one. In either case, civil action can be taken against either the player, agent or both, depending on circumstances, if it was a response to an inducement or if Spurs were aware that it should not have received this information, then you can add Spurs to this. In any case, all parties could be liable in a breach of confidence action. The possible remedies could include damages and the purported contract arising from the leak being set aside.
If the parties have released this information into the public domain and this causes a loss arising from this to the selling club, then the selling club could take action against those involved in releasing the information into public domain for consequential loss.
This guy is pissing in the wind. He knows as much as us. Just completely guessing where it will go. We aren’t going to pay over the release clause, that’s just balmy.
Some of the things he says are close to being frowned upon by the agents and Spurs. I think he needs to be careful there with the way this seems to be heading.
Until ENIC is out, I don’t think we can expect anything different. Doesn’t necessarily make it right. It’s just our reality.
Fair point
It was looking like it with this MGW transfer:
If it fails then we are right back to square 1
Base, as the players agent, will be advising him,
And Base will not be advising him to give up on the move, atm he is just behaving professionally and going to training.
No doubt Base will determine players next move
I mean, a degree of caution and care is certainly called for in this situation.
Incidentally, Gibbs-White is represented by the same agency as Ben Davies.
Gibbs-White is represented by CAA Stellar, not CAA Base (exactly how connected the two are, I'm not sure)
Do you know what my grandkids are not allowed to say "It's not fair". Forest get Palace thrown out of Europa despite their own dodgy ownership?
Forest get Clattenberg in because of a few reffing decisions, putting refs integrity in doubt. You should have had a shot a yard over the goal line disallowed?
Now a bid triggers a release clause "It's not fair"
An owner with a so called blind trust runs onto the pitch to argue with his manager ffs
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