Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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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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