I understand, but I’m pretty sure any club could find a way to make this work, even if not exactly in a perfectly neat way... there are arrangements I can imagine that would sort this out. Anyway, it’s another case that upsets me because this is yet again a player that would be a smarter investment than Kane, and one that will shine at Leicester (signed to be for Vardy what we want for Kun).Without going into the detailed complexity of it, there is a difference.
Briefly, for players under that category, it is a points system, and the biggest one is the player's wage relative to the average wage at the club to scores points. A player needs to be in the top earners percentage. Our wage average is much higher than Leicester's so he would need to be paid a lot lot more to qualify, in line with the top earners at the club. There are a few other criteria too, but that is the main one.
This is why Douglas Luiz couldn't get a work permit to play for Manchester City, but could for Aston Villa, in the same league and country. From my brief look at it early on when we were linked, it looked to me like the exact same scenario.
I understand, but I’m pretty sure any club could find a way to make this work, even if not exactly in a perfectly neat way... there are arrangements I can imagine that would sort this out. Anyway, it’s another case that upsets me because this is yet again a player that would be a smarter investment than Kane, and one that will shine at Leicester (signed to be for Vardy what we want for Kun).
Nope. Not a chance of that. Been tested and proven, many times over. You either qualify or you don't, and the margins are so tight, that it doesn't allow any artificial un-neat ways of fudging it.
As a priciple, and general example you can trust me on this, or feel free to do your own research if you don't.
Re Daka, I haven't in fairness bothered taking it to the final degree to conclusively say. But at the time we were linked with him, it certainly seemed it.
I agree btw, would have been a fine player to take a chance on.
I found this on twitter from a few months ago: “Daka qualifies [for a work permit] because he's played in Europa and the UCL and he played most of the games this season for Salzburg”
He needs to have played a certain percentage of international games for his country, which he hasn't. The lower the coefficient, the higher the percentage.
Look, no disrespect to you at all, but this is not a worthwhile discussion to continue, so I will leave it here. This is not something you will find a quick answer to on twitter, it is so fucking complex that you could get to the very end of a worked example thinking it qualifies, for it not to.
And for a player who has just signed for another club, that is time better spent elsewhere.
Tell that to those in the Sancho thread too, thenAnd for a player who has just signed for another club, that is time better spent elsewhere.
I wasn’t asking you to engage in a discussion with me anyway. I did my own (quick) research — not because I’m interested in the Daka situation exclusively, but in the subject at large — and under the new rules, it seems he clearly qualifies. The Douglas Luiz situation was an entirely different beast.
The point that he would qualify at Leicester but not here is a strange one given that very recently he was linked to Chelsea and Liverpool (clubs in a similar wage and everything else situation to ours) and reportedly only chose Leicester because he’s guaranteed more consistent minutes there.
LolEven if I am wrong on daka, I am certainly right on the principle
Oh really, how genuine were you in trying to dismiss rumors that were well known around multiple media vehicles and sourced journalists as “twitter claims”, to make me look unequipped for a discussion. Of course, I’m always the arrogant one around here, ya know...Yeah, go fuck yourself.
That was the last genuine and well-meant attempt at a grown-up engagement with you and your utter shallow childish ignorance.