Swansea sue Russell Martin over Southampton move ...

[TheLoneRanger]

Swansea sue Russell Martin over Southampton move

Swansea City understood to want £2 million in compensation after Martin departed with more than a year left on contract

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Pegojack]

The club should never have allowed him to go there until a fee was agreed and a contract signed.

 

[monmouth]

Where has this been all season? He’s been there for 40 games.

Watching Leeds today, they might be back in the mix for auto. That might make it easier to get our cash if they make it maybe.

 

[bakajack]

The club should never have allowed him to go there until a fee was agreed and a contract signed.

Disagree it was dragging on and on, he wanted out and the club also wanted him out so they could get their man and give him at least some input to the summer transfer business. If they recruited a new manager while he was still there it could well have been grounds for constructive dismissal from Russel and us having to pay up his contract rather than vice versa. It should have gone to a tribunal but why that hasn't happened is anyone's guess.

Ultimately it looks like we have now gone after RM himself rather than Southampton (or possibly in addition to since it is suing for breach of contract).

 

[A4Jack]

Ha ha
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[TheLoneRanger]

 

[K23]

To say "Simon Jordan backs Swansea's pursuit of Russell Martin" is not strictly true, what he is saying is that Swansea are entitled to pursue Russell Martin provided a case can be made that he had breached the contract he signed in exactly the same way as he could sue Swansea if he believed that they had breached the contract he signed. He's not saying we're right or we're wrong just that it is a 2 way street.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Disagree it was dragging on and on, he wanted out and the club also wanted him out so they could get their man and give him at least some input to the summer transfer business. If they recruited a new manager while he was still there it could well have been grounds for constructive dismissal from Russel and us having to pay up his contract rather than vice versa. It should have gone to a tribunal but why that hasn't happened is anyone's guess.

Ultimately it looks like we have now gone after RM himself rather than Southampton (or possibly in addition to since it is suing for breach of contract).

You're correct, and it's another example of how the owners simply don't understand the machinations of how football works.

In situations like that you don't prolong the agony once you know your manager wants out, you accept it, conclude the departure quickly and move on. That's how most sane clubs work anyway.

Not as if they haven't got previous for this - remember when they held out on Gylfi for far longer than they needed to, which landed the club right in the shit because it left us with £45m in the coffers with only a few hours left of the window and the likes of Hull knew it, forcing us to overpay for the likes of Clucas.

They're absolutely clueless - they bought a club in a sport they just do not understand, and what's worse is in 8 years they've still never made any attempt to try and understand it.

 

[jackjackjackjack]

Southampton agree compensation... with Man Utd who have taken their director of football. Hopefully they can give some of it to us.