Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[@BluePhil8]

I’ve just read that United want Greilish for £80m... surely another Phil Jones Aguero-esque song coming up?

 

[LevyBee76]

I mean... of course they have to say that

 

[Maly]

I‘d challenge you, but I’m worried I might get injured.

I hope you don’t mean a race? Last time I tried that I was pissed up One night on the A6 outside Mr Mo’s in the Grove vs a lad about 15 years my junior. Both my hammies went ping & I dropped as if a sniper had shot me!!

 

[raghavk]

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I mean... of course they have to say that

Is this what is called just another groundhog day?

 

[DAGW]

I’ve just read that United want Greilish for £80m... surely another Phil Jones Aguero-esque song coming up?

This is how it feels to be City
This is how it feels to be small
You bought Greilish
Messi came here for fuck all
Here for fuck all

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I hope you don’t mean a race? Last time I tried that I was pissed up One night on the A6 outside Mr Mo’s in the Grove vs a lad about 15 years my junior. Both my hammies went ping & I dropped as if a sniper had shot me!!

You are Neymar and I claim my £5.

 

[HaalandEffect]

4231
Rodri - KdB
Bernardo - Messi - Sterling
Aguero

 

[Maly]

You are Neymar and I claim my £5.

Ha ha ha touché sir touché

 

[cjn]

Massive law firms like the one Barcelona were using have 1,000+ lawyers in 25 countries.

It will be very common for them to have representation on both sides of an issue and it's not a conflict of interest unless the lawyers involved are personally discussing details.

More likely Bartomeu binned them for a) PR reasons or b) Because they wrote up a contract that is going to let Messi walk away for free.

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 just going to a handful of partners, and clients of Barcelona of Messi's stature will just get the head of the group. 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.

Edit: you can actually just look it up. The firm has 9 partners listed who list "sports" as a practice area in the Barcelona office. There's no way that's not a conflict.

Lawyers

Cuatrecasas: Lawyers

www.cuatrecasas.com

 

[Higor Douglas]