Wages and transfers?

East Stand Massive (03/01/2007)

SIR JOEY BAG! (03/01/2007)

Cloudy O'Reyna (03/01/2007)

Thinking about the talk around SWP I was trying to work out what happens over contracts.

Say, for the sake of arguement, that he's earning 70 grand a week at Chavski and has 3 years to go on his contract. If he's sold without him asking for a transfer and the club buying him offer him £40 grand a week how does that work? Anyone know?

I'm not sure, but I thought that Chelski would have to settle his contract, remaining salary over the term of his contract, let's say £3.5m per year x 3 years.

I can't see any player earning £3.5m per year, over a contract of 4 years, getting sold to a club for £10m and then being on £30,000 per week - not getting some sort of compensation.

Even with his 10% signing on fee - that's only £1m, he has possibly lost £6m in wages straight away, after being sold by a club when he didn't want to move.

Doesn't make contractual sense in my eyes - can't see how they could get away with doing that. w00t

There is no compo as such, when another club buys a player, they're buying his contract effectively, that's why as I posted above it can all fall apart when negotiating personal terms. The most you'll ever see, (as we did for a short period with Fowler and Mills), is the selling club making a contribution to the players wages.