Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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@BluePhil8 said:
Giving him equity in the club is a genius stroke - if he’s personally financially invested can you imagine what a leader he is going to be?

‘What the fuck Raz how could you miss that sitter? We have a meeting with a new sponsor tomorrow!’
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As part owner he could sack Pep at half time if he pulls a Lyon.
 
I've spent the last few days constantly telling myself this is never going to happen but doubt is creeping in. I know it'll be a massive disappointment if it doesn't happen but fuck me if I'm still not over the moon that City is apparently where the best footballer in the world WANTS to be.
 
The 2020/2021 season is the last season of #Messi with contract in the #FCBarcelona and the season starts tomorrow. And the last season of his contract has no exit clause. Although the club understands that the Burofax was sent late, there is no longer a clause in force.

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Higor Douglas said:
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For the small number of non Spanish speakers on here...

The 2020/2021 season is the last season of #Messi with a contract at #FCBarcelona and the season starts tomorrow. And the last season of his contract has no exit clause. Although the club understands that the Burofax was sent late, there is no longer a clause in force.

So Barca think he missed the deadline to leave for free but acknowledge there is no longer a release clause of €700m?
 
kaz7 said:
He can leave for free at the end of the last season,the row is when that officially was with the extension
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Yea, that's why I asked the question

Both the Free Clause and the 700m Buyout Clause would expire with the new season (20/21)
So either the 700m clause still exists and he can potentially leave on a free or he definitely can't leave on a free and the 700m buyout is irrelevant/has elapsed

That was my assumption anyway but apparently if the 700m buyout has elapsed that means he has no buyout and all players have to have a buyout in La Liga therefore he can leave as a semi-free agent right now with a judge later on decided the fee City will have to pay
If true, I doubt it will come to that, it just makes Barca much more likely to agree to a more reasonable fee
 
cjn said:
Sports law generally isn't a big practice, even at huge firms. It's true that a contract is a contract, but realistically anything football related is probably going to one or two partners. It's very unlikely in my view that there would be a completely different set of people working on Messi's contract matter than those who represented Barcelona in contract matters previously. I'm not a lawyer but I've worked with firms before in the past which, then in a later deal, sought to represent the party on the other side of me and in each case they had to come to us prior and request a conflict waiver before doing so (which sometimes were granted, sometimes were not). Skipping that step is definitely grounds for dismissal, putting everything else aside.
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The approach I take is this.

Do I think a serious law firm knows the boundary lines of conflict of interest and what they can or can't do without conflicting? Yes.

Do I think a serious law firm would risk losing a customer who uses them a lot every year for contracts, signings etc and probably piles up billable hours just to give Messi an opinion on a contract? No.

Do I think Bartomeu is a petulant prick who would do anything to create a target to deflect a % of the blame? Yes.

In fact a quick google shows Cuatracasas have been Messi's lawyers for at least 5 years - probably at the recommendation of Barcelona.
 
OK so based on tonights revelation Barcelona have 2 choices.

1) Let Messi go for free and honour their deal.

2) Go after him, but if they lose, he no longer has a release clause. Which means in the event of Barcelona "winning" a court case over the clause, another court will decide the compensation, likely basing it on similar cases like Ronaldo's €100m move (when he had 3 years left on his deal).

That might net them 40-50m at the most?

Either way, @tolmie's hairdoo said today it looked like we won't be paying Barca the big bucks, and it looks to be playing out that way.
 
domalino said:
The approach I would take is this.

Do I think a serious law firm knows the lines of conflict of interest? Yes.

Do I think a serious law firm would risk losing a customer who uses them a lot every year for contracts, signings etc and probably piles up billable hours just to give Messi an opinion on a contract? No.

Do I think Bartomeu is a petulant prick who would do anything to create a target to deflect a % of the blame? Yes.


In fact a quick google shows Cuatracasas have been Messi's lawyers for at least 5 years.
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Ah, I didn't realize they'd represented him prior. I'm sure Leo would've had a separate firm review the contract besides the one which drew it up, but they obviously would've known the details anyway. You're right. In that case Barto's just being a prick.
 
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