Paris Saint Germain’s summer transfer activity came to an end in (Seine)sational style! The facts speak for themselves: The two largest football transfer fees in history – £366M combined spending on Neymar da Silva Santos Junior and Kylian Mbappe; Combined wages of a reported £700k/week (both on 5 year contracts). The signings of Neymar and … Continue Reading
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The Neymar Transfer Saga Continues
Earlier this month, Sports Shorts considered the Neymar transfer saga with an in-depth look at the law surrounding buy-out clauses and a more specific post on penalty clauses in contracts entered into by Spanish clubs and minors. Neymar, backed by Paris Saint-Germain, was recently able to buy himself out of his contract with FC Barcelona … Continue Reading
The Neymar Transfer: An Analysis of Buy-Out Clauses – Part 2
Since part 1 of this blog series was published, the Neymar transfer saga moved to a denouement. Overnight, FC Barcelona were reported to have accepted the buy-out fee and today (4 August 2017), Neymar was officially unveiled as a Paris Saint-Germain player. In the case of Neymar, the inclusion of a buy-out clause in the … Continue Reading
The Neymar Transfer: An Analysis of Buy-Out Clauses – Part 1
Undoubtedly the biggest story of the present transfer window (or perhaps any transfer window ever) is the proposed transfer of Neymar from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a reported €222 million. To date, the largest transfer fee ever paid for a player was the €105 million Manchester United paid Juventus for Paul Pogba in … Continue Reading
Contracts in football – the unconventional, bizarre and shocking
The first of January saw the opening of the 2017/18 winter transfer window. Clubs have until 11pm on 31 January to conclude their business for this season. As ever, transfer windows bring with them much speculation about potential moves and the terms of new contracts signed by players. Speculation that Lionel Messi would leave Barcelona … Continue Reading
Last Post of 2017
Today marks the end of a busy year for the Sports Shorts team. 2017 has seen us cover a multitude of topics from Joey Barton’s gambling habits to Matthew Rees’s selfless act at the London Marathon. From the World’s most expensive player transfer to the British and Irish Lions Tour in New Zealand. 2018 looks … Continue Reading
Pay dispute – Australian cricket back on track?
Last month, Sports Shorts wrote about the pay dispute between the Australian cricket governing body, Cricket Australia (CA), and the players. At that time, deadlock prevailed and the Australian players were refusing to play as they were effectively unemployed when the old Memorandum of Understanding (which governed matters such as pay) expired. At the beginning of this … Continue Reading
FIFA’s Club Protection Programme in effect at the Olympics
On Saturday 20 August 2016, the Brazilian national football team will face Germany in the final of the Olympic football tournament and will hope to win a tournament that has so far eluded them. Brazil has been the runner-up on three past occasions (1984, 1988 and 2012) and won the bronze medal in 1996 and … Continue Reading
