• Sentau@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        It won’t. Saudi has given them a perfect get out jail card for underperforming players on long contracts

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    1 year ago

    Better squeeze in just a few more exploitative long contracts before UEFA or FIFA steps in

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      1 year ago

      Have the rules around amortising over a max of 5 years not come in yet?

      It seems a bizarre way or circumventing the rules given it is so risky, surely? I could understand it in a sport where the team was less important, the individual more so (possibly baseball?), as it is maybe less likely that a player loses value. The Premier League is littered with players being overpaid and difficult to offload, signed on high contracts by optimistic clubs. Giving relatively unproven players 8 year contracts seems to be asking for trouble…