Let him hand in a formal transfer request.
And then force Newcastle to get the price down.
150m for a player who doesn’t want to be in the club is madness.
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I think “I’m not playing for Newcastle again” is probably a formal transfer request.
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More of an informal one tbh.
I think he’s pushing it as far as he can without forgoing the loyalty bonus he’d be due from a sale without formally putting in a transfer request.
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Loyalty bonus would already be forfeit at this stage (as per @Kopstar )
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Potentially. Newcastle would be entitled to take clear expressions (words or actions) of a desire to leave (/not honour the terms of his contract) as amounting to a transfer request thus disentitling him to loyalty based bonuses.
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The ‘loyalty’ bonus is a joke at this point. They should stop putting them in contracts
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If the club have identified him as the best choice, i’m all for it.
(My choice of gif was because i couldn’t find the clip where he negotiates with the lawyer over the taxi - i think this is from the scene just before it where he races Kevin Bacon)
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I’m sure our resident legal counsel can clarify this but I thought a signing on fee and a loyalty bonus was essentially the same thing.
EG. Player signs contact with a 5m signing on fee. This is paid in installments over the duration of the contract, and remaining payments are void should a player chose to terminate the contract. (Hence ‘loyalty’)
I can’t really see how Isak’s behaviour is anything other that a de facto transfer request at this point.
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Any reason why Isak just dont buy out his own contract then LFC wont have to pay a fee and can give him the money back.
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Everything around this move is weird.
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That’s correct
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Presumably he doesn’t have a clause in the contract allowing him to do so (and lacks the funds to in any case)?
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He can do so in accordance with FIFA articles.
But the issue of compensation remains contested.
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That’s some stand to make. Is there more to this than anyone has heard yet, like a promise to sell.
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Is he perhaps hinting at what we spoke of a few days ago, buying his remaining contract? Knowing he risks being stuck in limbo but calling Newcastles bluff.
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Indykalia is having a cracking window. I still think he’s full of shit, but he is winding people up all over the place🤣
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It’s possible. I’d need to double check this but it could be he can only do this on or after 26 August.
A player can unilaterally terminate without just cause under the age of 28 if they’ve served at least 3 years of their existing contract. It is also expressed as 3 full seasons in the alternative so I think it likely he can already take this course of action but without double checking it could be that he has to wait until 26th (that’s 3 years to the day since he signed, I think).
That’s without addressing the compensation point or the potential inducement factor. Minefield.
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Hes been bang on this summer
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