(28-05-2022, 10:26 AM)Rick Pumpkin Wrote:(28-05-2022, 10:17 AM)bluebollox Wrote:(28-05-2022, 09:49 AM)Pompeyg100 Wrote:(28-05-2022, 09:30 AM)bluebollox Wrote:(28-05-2022, 09:26 AM)scumslayer Wrote: There's no grey area. You sign a pre contract that becomes active on 10th June but that contract also includes a clause that prevents you from signing your registration rights to another club before the start date. So vis a Vis you sign for that club immediately.
Spot on scumslayer. I think DB maybe getting confused with verbal agreements (like Stockley with us last summer) which are not worth anything.
Washington will be playing for Rotherham next season, no one can "nick him". Raggett has "penned a new 2 year deal" with us. He'll be playing for us next season, no one will "nick him".
Whether or not a precontract is binding or not, it’s a completely different situation to Raggett.
I wouldn't have thought Raggetts situation is any different. No club is going to pay a player twice as in 2 contracts @ the same time. His contract runs out next month iirc, the new one will take over then. Therefore by penning a new deal he must have signed a pre contract agreement otherwise someone could "nick him".
Is that like the opposite to a release clause? Didn't we have a discussion on here about those once?
And who was proved right about that ?
The similarity in the arguments is that in 99 out of a 100 cases the release clause will not be exceeded and in 99 cases out of a 100 both parties will honour a pre-contract agreement. But neither is guaranteed as the Jed Wallace and Richard Brittain cases prove.