Davefevs

and for all of you wondering whether it’s worth a read, Kieran Maguire’s stuff is always worth opening just to read / work out what little message he gives from the starting letter of each paragraph. I wonder if it’s true!!!

If there was one good thing to come out of this terrible thing it would be the uncovering of dubious agent practices, practices that both clubs and players are responsible for allowing.

“Decision by the end of the season”....I should hope so!

Think Fam was pretty fired up in the away game....should be the same for the home game too.

Fam will be spitting if they do....or is it sweat?

Isn’t there a possibility that they could also give a points deduction to next season too?

Woah.....nice. Hope you’re right. No point in FFP otherwise. Watershed moment.

@JamesBCFC

In fairness, he’s only played 1st Team football this season. Signed a contract until 2020 (back in Nov 17), and BBC report it as “at least” until 2020....so might even be a year option....meaning no rush during the window just gone.

@RumRed, yes, as Silvio says above.

That is Mrs F’s View too (ex-Insurance Underwriter).

They could insure against payment default (unlikely), but... They are more likely to sue for breach of contract.

Assuming he is Cardiff’s player officially, Nantes no longer have an insurable Interest over Sala.

They have to offer him a contract of at least equal to his current contract. yes, re pasted bit, I missed that, but they don’t have to offer him anything yet....of course it would be good if they could tie him to a new deal. But they don’t have to let him go in the summer, and they can wait til next summer to offer him another contract. Gonna piss the player off, yes, but it’s in their control to some extent.

I wonder if this is down to Cardiff’s insurers making them check everything is present and correct before authorising the claim.

They were satisfied enough with the documents to fly him over privately to start training the next day. As you say, no surprise though.

They probably have and he’s turned it down on interest from other clubs.

Really need the EFL to come down hard on Brum to set a precedent for Villa if needed. Thought the Swansea / Leeds / Dan James But was worth copying in full. It’s not just a case of agree a fee, the terms that go with it are key also. Loan terms cost Leeds Huw Jenkins, the Swansea City chairman, vetoed the club’s decision to sell the winger Daniel James to Leeds United at 10pm on Thursday after discovering the terms of the payment structure, which would have meant that they did not receive any money for one of their best players until June. The club had agreed to loan James for £1.5 million for the rest of the season, with Leeds obliged to buy him for a set fee of £7 million if they are promoted to the Premier League. On closer examination of the paperwork, however, Jenkins found that Leeds were not obliged to pay the loan fee for the 21-year-old winger until June 30, with any subsequent transfer fee payable in instalments over four years. That deal would have significantly strengthened Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds squad, as they chase promotion, for no initial outlay. Leeds are unhappy at the late collapse of the transfer but may benefit in the long run as James has only 18 months left on his contract and Swansea have not offered him a new deal, so he is likely to be available for much less this summer.

Yeah, glad you can’t see anything (apart from the plane).

Hope the family of both guys get some closure on this ASAP.

Flint’s amortisation would’ve been pretty minimal, so having paid a sell-on percentage to Swindon, he probably went through the accounts as a £6m profit.

Mrs F who hates footie, said exactly that.

Yes, I have a relevant life policy set up on my business.

Wondering the same. Not a nice subject. Deal has been signed I assume, so Nantes due Transfer Fee, etc. Cardiff you would expect to have a key-person type policy to cover for this, but covering his value as an asset. How you value that is not something i’ve Got a clue about. Sala’s dependent could be due death in service payments, so expect Cardiff to insure against that too. Could be a compensation claim against the aviation company under aviation law. Who knows, murky old subject.

I know it’s very different, but a week before 7/7, I was heading back from meetings in London and had just boarded my train (still a few minutes til it left) at Paddington when the alarms went off and we were all told over the tannoy to evacuate. Not one of us moved, expecting a false alarm and likelihood of losing your seat. It was only when the guard came onboard and told us to move that we did. Within 5 yards of getting off the train a few people said “it will be a false alarm” and now out of the guard’s eye, turned around and got back on the train. Like sheep we all followed them. It was a false alarm, but none if us knew that at the time.