Standard confidentiality clauses are not designed to hold people to secrecy though. They're designed to protect a person's right to privacy and a club's market sensitive information for competitive reasons. Just as the proximate wages most players are on is effectively in the public domain (and gets discussed), so pretty much every player that has a release clause is invariably public knowledge. They tend to be higher than £60m and certainly this clause seems to have not been generally public knowledge and seems to have caught some within Forest by surprise (they clearly were not intending to let GW go this summer). Hence why they seem intent on holding GW and Spurs to a far higher level of conduct re: confidentiality than is generally observed within and across the PLThe PL standard Player contract has a pretty simple confidentiality clause which prevents the club, player or their respective agents revealing the terms of the agreement (other than to their professional advisors).
If a release clause is inserted into thee contract then the confidentiality clause would govern that clause as well. If the intention is that the release clause is not intended to be confidential then I would expect the confidentiality clause to have been amended accordingly. There shouldn’t be any need for a separate NDA, it’s something a confidentiality clause should be able to cover.
Of course we don’t know what additions were made to MGW’s contract so it’s all guesswork but it’s certainly something whomever was negotiating on behalf of MGW should have picked up on if that was the understanding between the parties.
But all that is still separate from charges of illegally approaching the player.
I’d take a guess that it’s an old video? Not sure what he did on Saturday to warrant someone saying well done?More to the point, wtf is he doing in the rub a dub!
I’d take a guess that it’s an old video? Not sure what he did on Saturday to warrant someone saying well done?
Played golf judging by the gloveI’d take a guess that it’s an old video? Not sure what he did on Saturday to warrant someone saying well done?
Nottingham Forest’s version of amicable resolution will have been to ask Spurs to pay £80 million instead.
YepNottingham Forest’s version of amicable resolution will have been to ask Spurs to pay £80 million instead.