• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Morgan Gibbs-White

Wonder if this goes on for a few weeks if MGW can then claim off Forest for loss of earnings as they have not held up their part of his release clause and his new salary is higher.
 
Seems like the complaint is over us tapping him up rather than the release clause.
So seems the RC has been triggered successfully and the fuss is over us approaching the player to early.
Should not hold it up much longer then
 
The 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.
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 PL
 
Back