Bridcutt sold £3.25million. (with Sunderland kit picture)

[Randsta]

I'm actually quite interested to see how TB deals with all this. Is he the cool headed negotiater that no one should ever want to lock horns with? According to some on here he is....

I'd see 3.5m+ as good business, 3m acceptable and any less would be a disappointment!

Agree, but we can hold out for top dollar surely!

 

[bhawoddy]

To be honest we haven't really missed him this season, The replacement is already there in Rohan Ince...

Ok sorry, just get annoyed that players sign contracts and think they can walk away when it suits their pockets.
Not to bothered tho, ince is just as good if not better.

There can't be many players that do honour contracts anymore. I like ince, but he's got improve to be as good as bridcutt. Time will tell.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Don't understand why people are angry, lets say you are in a job, and are offered promotion, better money and with your old manager / supervisor back who you loved working under - of course you would go. So don't resent him.

 

[BBassic]

He's doing what he thinks is best for his career, same as any one of us would. Fair play and good luck to him, has been a great player for us.

 

[sparkie]

As long as this transfer request isn't a means of forcing through a low fee, then no problem really.

If Sunderland pay the asking price, there really is no problem.

 

[Acker79]

Bridcutt is under contract to us, if we decide to sell him to another club then we have to pay the remainder of his contract up, why should he lose out on his agreed contract just cause we have decided to sell him to another interested club.

if he asks to leave however, we dont.

But it's not like that, is it? The club comes to us with an offer. We give them permission to speak to the player. The player then gets to choose: sign a deal with the new club or stay and see out their current one.

The contract isn't broken by accepting an offer for the player, it's broken when the player agrees to a new deal and the transfer goes through.

Why should the club have to pay off the contract when the player has chosen another over their current one?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Doesn't make any sense , why would we have to pay up his contract ? Another club wants to buy him , making the initial approach and if he didn't ask for a transfer in the first place it would be up to himself and his agent to decide if personal terms are acceptable.

See my earlier post. If we sell him and he hasn't requested it, we have in essence broken his contract. He is therefore, technically, entitled to have his contract paid up. It is no difference to his being sacked. He signed a contract that we are bound to honour if requested. It is no different to contractors in other fields. If they sign a contract and the employers terminate earlier, for whatever reason, they can claim what they are owed. Hence why free transfers are not free - you have to pay them up if you want them to leave and they do not want to leave.

Football differs in that the employers receive compensation from the new employer in most cases. If Sunderland made a bid an we accept without the player making a request to leave, he is technically entitled to be paid his Brighton contract in full. By requesting a transfer, he has waived this right by asking to break the contract himself.

In reality, if the player wants to leave but doesn't request a transfer then there is probably a deal hammered out that does not involve full payment. But my understanding is that by his requesting to leave, he is due nothing more from us, should we accept his request which we are not obliged to do. But there is little point in keeping a disgruntled employee where performance is so important.

 

[Jaguar_uk]

There can't be many players that do honour contracts anymore. I like ince, but he's got improve to be as good as bridcutt. Time will tell.

Agree, but I'm optimistic about ince, proper powerhouse.

 

[severnside gull]

I was told (and posted on here) that one of the issues of Gus' gross misconduct was telling certain contracted players he would be taking them with him to his next club..............

 

[penny's harmonica]

I wonder if this will prompt other clubs considering moving for Liam to make a bid.

This could get interesting if we receive an offer above Sunderland's ceiling figure.

Either way I feel it's right for both parties to move on now and I wish him all the best.

 

[TonyW]

Really? Elliott Bennett did the same. I don't class him as a judas.

I do.

 

[Hiney]

He already earns enough in two weeks to look after his family for a whole year. You make it sound like he's on the poverty line at Brighton.

How much does he earn in 2 weeks?

 

[Bladders]

But it's not like that, is it? The club comes to us with an offer. We give them permission to speak to the player. The player then gets to choose: sign a deal with the new club or stay and see out their current one.

The contract isn't broken by accepting an offer for the player, it's broken when the player agrees to a new deal and the transfer goes through.

Why should the club have to pay off the contract when the player has chosen another over their current one?

Players dont always leave clubs cause they want to, sometimes they are told you have no future here and we have accepted an offer for you from another club. The parent club cant then just default on that players contract.


Most of the time the remaining contract owed to a player is factored into the transfer fee, this is also why players on short contacts go for less than those with multiple years left on theirs.

 

[bhawoddy]

To be honest we haven't really missed him this season, The replacement is already there in Rohan Ince...

Agree, but I'm optimistic about ince, proper powerhouse.

Yes, he's progressing well so far. Who knows how good he might get.

 

[Jaguar_uk]

To be honest I'd feel a lot better if it wasn't Sunderland

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Bridcutt is under contract to us, if we decide to sell him to another club then we have to pay the remainder of his contract up, why should he lose out on his agreed contract just cause we have decided to sell him to another interested club.

if he asks to leave however, we dont.

So if I was to be head-hunted by another potential employer who would pay a finders fee to my existing employer I would be entitled to have my fixed term contract paid up in full ?

 

[Mackenzie]

That's the loyalty (ha!) bonus gone up in smoke then.

Oh well we now know Sunderland can stretch to £5m with the sale of Connor Wickham to Notts FFP, its up to Mr Bloom to unburden them of as much of it as he can.

Cheerio Liam

 

[bhawoddy]

To be honest we haven't really missed him this season, The replacement is already there in Rohan Ince...

To be honest I'd feel a lot better if it wasn't Sunderland

That's the heart talking and not the head IMO. I don't care who he goes to as long as the deal is right for us

 

[Goldstone76]

May be LB has requested a transfer to allow whatever fee agreed to go ahead based on the cancellation of contract.

 

[East Preston Gull]

We are 7th in the league and he has hardly played this season. I think we will be ok. Good luck to him and we will see you next season Liam!