Football (Soccer) Thread

[Josquius]

There has been talk of revisiting Bosman and giving players more rights.
As when you think about it logically transferring players is extremely fucked up and runs contrary to normal employment law.
Of course if this goes the whole way and gives players complete freedom there'd be a lot of unintended consequences. It would probably hurt smaller teams quite a lot.

[Josquius]

3 professionals vs 100 kids.

Made me laugh. Clearly a great challenge for the pros in not hurting the kids

[Sheilbh]

With Steve Clarke resigning as Scotland manager I see David Moyes is now the favourite.

I wouldn't hate it. But hope we have some succession plans in place (Oliver Glasner is right there) just in case because I think this might be a bit of a dream job for Moyes and he's 63 and the stars have aligned....

[celedhring]

There has been talk of revisiting Bosman and giving players more rights.
As when you think about it logically transferring players is extremely fucked up and runs contrary to normal employment law.
Of course if this goes the whole way and gives players complete freedom there'd be a lot of unintended consequences. It would probably hurt smaller teams quite a lot.

Technically, players in Spain can move clubs freely, courts found in the 1980s that indeed they have the same rights as any other worker.

So the transfer fee system we have was created as a workaround. The fees are actually penalty fees that the footballer agrees to pay if he leaves for another club (a competitor). Those were taken to court back in 1990s but were found legal if they were not "disproportionate" compared to the player's salary. I'm not sure whether they have ever been tested in Euro courts, I know Bayern threatened to do so when they signed somebody off Athletic to get the fee down. I think Newcastle also did some shenanigans to get a player from Mallorca while skirting the fee, many years ago.