by bigmick » Fri May 26, 2006 3:37 pm
Morally you may have a point visa-vis his contract mate but legally he is fully entitled to the money. At the end of the day Liverpool offered him the contract with gauranteed earnings of probably 2.5 million quid a year over four years. They have now decided they don't want him anymore, and have transfered his registration to Valencia who are probably only prepared to pay him 1.5 million over the next two years. Morientes effectively misses out on 2 million quid, though he does have the certainty of a longer contract.
His agent would argue that Nando doesn't actually want to leave and is infact quite happy to stay and fuffil the terms and conditions of the remainder of his deal and pick up the outstanding 5 million quid. Given the fact however that Liverpool seem determined to sell his registration, then his client would be prepared to compromise on the deal, do Liverpool a favour and only take a further 1 million out of the coffers in a full and final severence package.
Although the numbers are mind-blowingly huge, in principal it's only the same as a firm making somebody redunadant and paying them off.
Still a hard one to swallow all the same. FWIW, if we have got 3 million for him then even after the payoff it turns out to be 2 mill which is quite a bit more than he is actually worth IMHO.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".