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Not sure how you sign another contract with a man that you know will choose not to honour that contract when it suits him.
Marinakis burned that bridge when he started this shit. They are offering him one now so they look better when he rejects it and they have to sell him
Imo the vast majority of elite EPL players are pretty robotic. They have everything done for them in the work place, from being told what to wear, what to eat, when to sleep and at what time etc. Any external matters are normally taken care of by the club as well.
So when they are told to get on a plane at such and such a time they just turn up and do it.
Point! MGW will do what he is told to do by his club until its no longer his club, then he will be told what to do by his next club.
I'm quite jealous really!
If he doubles his wages, he could be convinced.
They'd have to go beyond what we're offering, reports are that he's on about £80k a week and since we typically double the wage of players when we sign them they'd be no incentive anyway.
The only way he stays is if there's a bumper new contract with a higher release clause but seeing as how they've acted during this saga I can't see him signing a new deal seeing as they're not honouring the clause they promised him.
They've also apparently been trying to tie him down to a new deal all year and he's rejected them, I presume they've been trying to remove this clause and he clearly didn't want it removed - I'd be very surprised if he signed a new deal with them.
More keen to know it's 'authorised' by who?
I don’t know where this goes.
Forest still haven’t taken legal action. Whether that’s because it’s just a lot of noise to try and put us off, or they don’t actually believe they have a case I’m not sure.
MGW is being a professional which is good, but I think the only way it speeds up as if he kicks up a fuss. If he signs a new deal with no clause then he’s a fool.
Forest still haven’t taken legal action. Whether that’s because it’s just a lot of noise to try and put us off, or they don’t actually believe they have a case I’m not sure.
MGW is being a professional which is good, but I think the only way it speeds up as if he kicks up a fuss. If he signs a new deal with no clause then he’s a fool.
It’s a game of chicken. No-one wants to go to court on either side. Forest are trying to engineer us to either pay more or fuck off.
Hope you're right, mate.
Right now his options seem to be "stay on current deal" or "stay on new deal". He's essentially hostage there.
And I don't believe the release clause has made any difference because he would be here by now.
Forest haven’t taken legal action ?
Well they have reported both us and the agent to the Premier League, which could get us sporting penalties and put us on notice of a legal charge.
The legal charge will be about loss of revenue, which hasn’t happened yet, so they have done everything they can so far.
Ultimately I don’t think either a Premier League hearing or legal case will happen, because we will settle them by increasing our offer.
And rightly we’re saying we’ve paid the released clause. Allow him to join us or there will be legal action.
You’re right, it is a game of chicken. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re waiting for him to reject the latest contract before allowing him to go. They’ll find it incredibly hard to prove we came about details illegally, but they can be taken to court by Spurs, MGW, his agents and Wolves.
Who knows what the fek is happening, so much BS going around - I do think looking on the outside this is just one big PR stunt from their owner as they initially agreed to release him to come for a medical until he got involved, that's the giveaway.
The fact we haven't waled away yet is telling me that we are confident that this goes though, so let's see.
The only people to say they’ve wrote to the premier league are Rob Dorsett and some wannabe ITKs.
I don’t see a world where Levy pays more than an actual release clause for a player.
Too late...NF been offering almost double his wages for the last year in an effort to remove clause and he has so far resisted. If he was resolute to hold for that long without caving in I don’t see an early conclusion to this fiasco.
Not the kind of messy football fans dream of coming to their club.
It depends on the wording of the release clause which no-one seems to know about atm.
Probably a bit of both
We’re kind of lucky that Tuchel has reportedly told the players that CL is crucial to being selected for the World Cup next summer. I imagine that’s a big part in MGW’s thinking.
I doubt it. If he wanted high wages, he could have gone to Saudi. He wants to play for a bigger club than Forest which, by the way, will also double his wages.
You really don’t understand the process at all do you.
Let me enlighten you a little.
Firstly, we have NOT paid the release clause.
We have reportedly offered to pay the release clause. Whether we breached the confidentiality to learn that figure is under dispute. But you don’t PAY for something until all paperwork is done.
Secondly, Spurs CANNOT take Forest to court.
The only contract out there is between Forest and MGW, Spurs are not a party to it, so have incurred no losses. The only party that could take Forest to court is MGW for breach of contract.
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