Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
Because they don’t even know if the Ukraine will existBut why have they had the power to ‘suspend’ the contracts but not freeze them? (Or rather to allow players to unilaterally suspend, instead of allowing players and teams to agree to a freeze?)
If there’s some technical legal issue with freezing, surely you could get around it by saying players can suspend and play for other clubs, but that period then has to be added to the original contract with the Ukrainian team? So in practice it’s effectively frozen.
And it’s relatively unique as a situation