Marc Cucurella

[ancoats]

Why are transfers so slow in the modern game ?? So much red type to cross, agents getting involved between selling club and buying club, the media are given a slot to when they can officially put out the transfer its all bollocks

what happened to the good old handshake or word of mouth

 

[Kamaro011]

Why are transfers so slow in the modern game ?? So much red type to cross, agents getting involved between selling club and buying club, the media are given a slot to when they can officially put out the transfer its all bollocks

what happened to the good old handshake or word of mouth

Onlince social media happened

 

[foggy1974]

We may have to pay him legally but surely it’s up to us who we give squad spaces to?

Had a quick Google of what would happen under employment law and it looks complicated. Dont think City would want to be taken to a tribunal for unfair dismissal. Whether City decide to register him for competitions is a different matter

 

[foggy1974]

Why are transfers so slow in the modern game ?? So much red type to cross, agents getting involved between selling club and buying club, the media are given a slot to when they can officially put out the transfer its all bollocks

what happened to the good old handshake or word of mouth

Nothing has changed its just that its more in the open nowadays. Its a lot harder nowadays to meet an agent at a motorway service station with a load of brown envelopes.

 

[Academica]

Nothing has changed its just that its more in the open nowadays. Its a lot harder nowadays to meet an agent at a motorway service station with a load of brown envelopes.

According to ragcafe that's how we pay our players.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Had a quick Google of what would happen under employment law and it looks complicated. Dont think City would want to be taken to a tribunal for unfair dismissal. Whether City decide to register him for competitions is a different matter

You’d be better off googling the obligations of parties under a goods and services contract because players are contracted to supply services for a set period rather than being ‘employed’ in the traditional sense.
In most cases players are employed by their own companies or by their agents company’s and their services are sold to the clubs they play for - it’s an arrangement between companies rather than a direct employment - it makes not a lot of sense in the light of IR35 but that’s how it is.

 

[LongsightM13]

You’d be better off googling the obligations of parties under a goods and services contract because players are contracted to supply services for a set period rather than being ‘employed’ in the traditional sense.
In most cases players are employed by their own companies or by their agents company’s and their services are sold to the clubs they play for - it’s an arrangement between companies rather than a direct employment - it makes not a lot of sense in the light of IR35 but that’s how it is.

HMRC put a stop to that while ago iirc

 

[SilvaisSkyBlue]

Why are transfers so slow in the modern game ?? So much red type to cross, agents getting involved between selling club and buying club, the media are given a slot to when they can officially put out the transfer its all bollocks

what happened to the good old handshake or word of mouth

There are vast sums of money involved and contracts have to be exact.

The days of handshakes and word of mouth are thankfully long gone, all that era makes me think of is owners like Swales and Francis Lee (not as a player obviously) and stumbling from one disaster to another.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

HMRC put a stop to that while ago iirc

Haha if that’s so then it’s about time.

I spent most of my working life employed by companies in commercial roles and steering clear of ir35 implications in employing subcontractors was one of my concerns.
I then set up my own company and sold my services into local authorities - and, out of respect for it, I always kept at least 2 clients on my books at any one time to negate ir35.
Despite all the concerns over ir35 I had plenty of peers who were employed as independent contractors to one sole organisation, often for decades without a break, but never got any grief due to it.
It was a threat hanging over sole contractors and self employed but ultimately toothless I guess.

I retired 5 years ago, in my late 50’s due to my wife’s ill health, so I’m out of date on the topic :-D

 

[uwe rosler 28]

He is suspended & unlikely to play for us again but will still have a squad place until his contract ends.

Squad places get submitted to Premier league at start of season he will be left of this