Jack Grealish

[waspish]

I don't believe that but if it was true then fcuk Grealish.
I hate it when players down tools when they don't get their own way.

you don’t want Grealish though so you will say that

 

[Delboy352]

When he does sign the Collymore meltdown will be spectacular

 

[Coatigan]

Even if they had a gentleman's agreement/informal clause and not an iron clad contractual one, Villa's new owners aren't going to throw away all their good will they've built up since coming in over £15m or so.

Grealish is the club captain who stuck with his boyhood club through a terrible period in their history and lead them back to the PL and the good times. The Villa fans adore him for sticking with them when they went down.

If the club turn around and say we're not honouring a gentleman's agreement of £80m, the fans aren't going to side with the owners, they're going to say "fair enough he stuck by us, now it's time to let him go and book an enormous fee at the same time".

True, presuming the owners can't sell it to the fans as keeping their talisman at all cost. For which they would actually have to keep him, rather than selling for the maximum they can get.

All talk of a clause is, as far as I have seen, speculation. Mostly seemingly because he signed an extension when he could have moved the following season.

For the owners to be put into a position that looks like they are not showing reapect to the club captain, his camp would need to claim there is one, or a gentleman's agreement and it isn't being honoured. I can't see Graelish doing that, with his boyhood club.

 

[bluemoon32]

you don’t want Grealish though so you will say that

Nah, i always say that, not just about Grealish.
Any player that downs tools is a cnut, that even goes for players at Utd

 

[citizen_maine]

Is it though?

Do you know that for sure?

I don't, hence the honest question.

I've heard it is not, I've seen it not get enforced, with Suarez, but also get that he himself might have chosen to stay instead of going to arsenal on a promise he would be allowed to move to a club like Barcelona if they came for him.

I know nothing about contract law, but seems a bit strange that either party can pick and choose which clauses to honour.
"I know your contract says £150k per week but we're only going to give you £10k"
"I know my contract says I'll stay for 5 years, but I've had a better offer so I'm off"

 

[waspish]

Nah, i always say that, not just about Grealish.
Any player that downs tools is a cnut, that even goes for players at Utd

yeah it doesn’t look good but when you sign a contract and have a buyout in it that the player and the club agree on then once another club activate that buyout the club say nah you ain’t going you can see why Grealish would be pissed of..

 

[Gremlin]

I know nothing about contract law, but seems a bit strange that either party can pick and choose which clauses to honour.
"I know your contract says £150k per week but we're only going to give you £10k"
"I know my contract says I'll stay for 5 years, but I've had a better offer so I'm off"

I'm not a lawyer but I do have dealings with some contract law and as long as the clause doesn't go against some other aspect of the law and both parties enter into it freely then it should be enforceable. However I don't know if buy-out clauses could be argued to contravene employment law in some way (restriction of trade or something). I'm sure a hot-shot lawyer acting for a PL club could probably find a way to shoot it down.

 

[bobmcfc]

If villa are offering him a new contract so soon then their arses are twitching over something

 

[David Silva]

 

[Protein Junkie]

Oh for fu, can't you stay until the window closes!?

You’ve latched onto this :-)