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RocketRonny said:
That’s a bit of an ad hoc reasoning. There are plenty of job settings where you’re contracted for a specified period, and there are a lot of highly competitive markets where losing an employee means your direct adverse firm gets him. Top solicitors and programmers e.g. or academics. Basically any in-demand high skilled practice.

As to purchase/sale value that’s a pretty bizarre thing to begin with. It treats football players as property not contracted individuals.

I do wonder if a club ever tried terminating a contract on account of performance. I only find examples of gross misconduct but not of a player becoming a fat tub of lard with a season ticket at McDonald’s like Tanguy,
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If you got rid of this system you would also need to do away with transfers altogether and players would need to be contracted to the league itself in a draft system similar to American football. A player could then leave at any time but they would be leaving the league itself.

Otherwise all the best players would just leave for the top clubs without any compensation and the imbalance would be far worse than it is even now. No club would spent time working on young players knowing their work would be for nothing when they fuck off for nothing. Teams would also be far more unstable, much harder to build a project.

Players are more than just skilful, they have certain skillets that work in combination with other players and manager styles that take time to build up. That’s why players are more assets on a balance sheet rather than an employee.
 
Johnson is decent, not sure i completely get the negativity. 8 goals and 3 assists last season at 21 in a struggling team is decent enough. I watched quite a bit of Forest in their promotion season as they were really entertaining and Johnson was very good, easily their standout player. Quick, direct and a goal threat, something we lack. Not a £50m player but i think he'd fit in with what we're trying to do pretty well. Slightly different positions but i'd put him marginally above someone like Ollie Watkins.
 
Tomo said:
If you got rid of this system you would also need to do away with transfers altogether and players would need to be contracted to the league itself in a draft system similar to American football. A player could then leave at any time but they would be leaving the league itself.

Otherwise all the best players would just leave for the top clubs without any compensation and the imbalance would be far worse than it is even now. No club would spent time working on young players knowing their work would be for nothing when they fuck off for nothing. Teams would also be far more unstable, much harder to build a project.

Players are more than just skilful, they have certain skillets that work in combination with other players and manager styles that take time to build up. That’s why players are more assets on a balance sheet rather than an employee.
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Well abolishing the current system would have to come in tandem with some thing like a wage cap. And I’m not sure introducing instability is a bad thing. From an antitrust perspective football had been cartelising in an increasing speed. Notions like the super league can never take root if the big club return to being big and not gargantuan compared to their domestic leagues
 
Pathfinder said:
Crazy money in the Arab footy league


Al-Ittihad, who are managed by former Spurs and Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo, have offered Liverpool £150million for the superstar.

A five-year contract is on the table, with a near-£100million basic salary, a private jet or unlimited plane tickets for his family and an offer to become an ambassador for tourism and investments in Saudi Arabia - which will further boost the player's pay.

In total the deal would eclipse the £173m salary of Ronaldo at Al-Nassr.

There is also the possibility to have shares of a team in the future, as the Saudi government and League want teams to be owned by private owners mid term.
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Not sue how you turn all that down, to stay in that wheel-stealing dump.
 
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