I think you have massively misread that. Happy to be corrected. It extends EU rights to people living and working in the EU if feom countries that have EU association agreements. Jamaica may ot may not, but he isn't a jamaican living in the EU, he is in the UK.
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I think you have massively misread that. Happy to be corrected. It extends EU rights to people living and working in the EU if feom countries that have EU association agreements. Jamaica may ot may not, but he isn't a jamaican living in the EU, he is in the UK.
You’re confused because you think he has to be non-Eu to sign for Real Madrid.
He doesn’t, they can employ anyone.
Today, a Man City player, Raheem Sterling has no kolpak rights.
The day Real Madrid hire him, he is legally employed in Spain, an EU country, and he gains Kolpak rights to get equal treatment.
Thus the Kolpak Ruling declares that citizens of countries which have applicable Association Agreements with the EU, - Jamaica is one of these, Sterling is a Jamaican citizen.
and who are lawfully working within an EU country,- Spain is an EU country, Real Madrid players are lawfully working in the EU
have equal rights to work as EU citizens, and cannot have restrictions such as quotas placed upon them. Squad restrictions are restrictions, they can’t be placed on Sterling.
I don’t know why you’ve found this hard, I have no idea at all why @SterlingSilvas brought up being employed in Jamaica, that has nothing to do with it at all.
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They could hire him as a UK citizen sure. But he would be one of the nkn-EU players. Whether he would wualify as a Jamaican, to live and work on Spain and as such the EU, i don't know their immigration system in fairnessm Either way Jamaica isn't listed as a country with AA agreements, so they wouldnt apply to him. Assuming he does actually have jamaican nationality.
Jesus Christ how can you not get this.
Any Jamaican working in the EU has Kolpak rights.
It doesn’t matter what country they used to work in.
As soon as he signs an employment contract with Real Madrid he’s lawfully working in the EU and he gets the extended rights.
If you read the article on the Kolpak agreement, it says -
The largest group of countries with an association agreement with the EU is the ACP Group of States,
Follow that link and you’ll see Jamaica is there.He does, he gets it by birth and he didn’t move here until he was 5 and here’s an article declaring his dual nationality
Liverpool's Raheem Sterling pledges international future to England
Raheem Sterling has pledged his international career to England, ending the prospect that he could choose to play for Jamaica
amp.theguardian.com
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Jamaica does not have an AA agreement with the EU though.
I’m sorry but at this point are you trying to be stupid?
The ACP group of states, of which Jamaica is one, has an AA with the EU.
Again if you just bothered to read the fucking article I posted you can see this is already tried and tested law based on West Indies cricketers, including Jamaicans.
It’s not up for debate.
A) because you are more focused on being an abrupt dickhead than making a point.
and B) because you edit posts multiple times over after I've read them, adding the key information after.
Having pieced it all now, fair enough, and a fascinating nook that seems to work out.
Haven't a clue but somehow Australia have ended up up in the Eurovision song contest
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Its a rule over freedom of movement within the EU, the ruling was made as he was working in an associated country at the time and treated different. Sterling isn't. He is clearly working in a non EU country and looking for a transfer in.
When Madrid sell him on the rule would be applicable, as far I read reads anyway.
i'll ask one of the lawyers on FT.
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