Can we enforce a transfer embargo?

[pete 375]

If Lambo were to leave, god forbid unlike some who do not see it as a problem, he should not be allowed to sign any City players for at least a season.  Stevenage did this when Westley left for PNE.  If PL leaves and can cherrypick our best players including Bennett R & E, Pilkington etc. we could really be in trouble.  Dependent on next season we may wish to unload some in 2013/14, if relegated, again god forbid.  Also would prevent a potential transfer target for GH.  I assume he is likely to go to Villa or perhaps WBA.

 

  

[Shyster 0]

Good thinking, pete, and an extremely important point to bring up - if a transfer embargo can be enforced, then it should be enforced with all due haste - I seriously believe Lambert will leave for Villa now.

[Supermarket Prodigy 0]

Fantastic point. I thoroughly hope, should he go, the club make this happen.

[Aggy 944]

We do have to accept transfer bids, you know?Lambert can''t just go to Villa, say here''s 1 million pounds I''m having Bennett or Pilks end of conversation. He would still have to make a transfer bid.

We don''t need an embargo, we just reject any bid he makes, unless it''s one that suits us (ie; is more money than we think a player is worth and is enough to bring in a better replacement).

[pete 375]

True but rejecting bids will unsettle the player for whom the bids was made, if not allowed to bid would be an entirely more satisfactory situation.  And this is not a unique position it has precedence.

[anonamoose 4]

A transfer embargo works both ways!!!!!

We don''t need one, we can reject any offers that come in for our players. Norwich won''t just sell all of our good players to Lambert. Keep the faith he isn''t going anywhere anyway

[Aggy 944]

Pete - yes, but if a player wants to go with Lambert, won''t it just make them unsettled anyway? What if they then hand in a transfer request that gets turned down because Lambert isn''t allowed to sign him? We then get an unhappy player who wants out, but isn''t allowed to go.

And as I''ve said elsewhere, why would Lambert want our players? If he moves to a "bigger", "better" and "richer" club (supposedly), then why raid players from your old "smaller", "worse" club with players who you only signed because that is all you could afford? Do you think Lambert would have made the same signings here that he has done if he had twice as much money to spend?

[Move Klose 303]

Well if he''s going to leave to join Villa and sign a few of our players he might as well stay here as our manager.

[im spartacus canary 0]

if he took our best players as well i would hate him forever no matter what he''s done

[Reggie Strayshun 0]

Presumably some sort of restraint of trade clause exists in the same way that , say, a hairdresser cannot resign from a salon, set up on his own and poach all his former employer''s clients.

 

The trouble with these sort of clauses, is, As Aggy says, they are extremely hard to enforce . You cannot, in reality, make someone work for you if they don''t want to. some sort of compromise is inevitable...the fiasco with Tevez and Man Citeh being a recent example. So, ultimately, if PL goes to Villa, there is not a lot we can do to stop him buying Holt, or anyone else, if he''s determined enough.

[Yorkshire Canary 118]

One thing you are forgetting Villa do not have much cash to spend which is why Lambert is so attractive to them. All of our players are worth significantly more than we paid for them. More of a danger if he goes is he signs targets that we hoped to get such as Rhodes, Snodgrass etc

[Shyster 0]

[quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]One thing you are forgetting Villa do not have much cash to spend which is why Lambert is so attractive to them. All of our players are worth significantly more than we paid for them. More of a danger if he goes is he signs targets that we hoped to get such as Rhodes, Snodgrass etc[/quote]

Villa haven''t much cash to spend? Well, reportedly, Lerner has and it''s something in the region of £200m which he''s invested, so going on that figure I estimate that any manager going to Villa might not struggle for funds where transfers and especially wages are concerned.One also has to take into account the monies received & saved via players out.

[Shyster 0]

[quote user="Aggy"]Do you think Lambert would have made the same signings here that he has done if he had twice as much money to spend?[/quote]

Yes - and now those signings look to be wanting to up their wages significantly there''s a strong possibility that he''d like to keep those players by offering them the best part of what they want - that''s something he could do at a club like Villa.

[Aggy 944]

So you think Villa will be happy with 12th place, as surely that is where they would have finished had they made the same signings we have done?

"Now those signings look to be wanting to up their wages".... based on what? Whitbread''s contract not being renewed and Holt handing in a transfer request that could have been about absolutely anything (and wasn''t on the back of any contract negotiations)?

[Shyster 0]

[quote user="Aggy"]So you think Villa will be happy with 12th place, as surely that is where they would have finished had they made the same signings we have done?

"Now those signings look to be wanting to up their wages".... based on what? Whitbread''s contract not being renewed and Holt handing in a transfer request that could have been about absolutely anything (and wasn''t on the back of any contract negotiations)?[/quote]

What''s your view on wages and players wanting to follow Lambert to Villa now, Aggy? [img]http://services.pinkun.com/forums/pinkun/cs/emoticons/emotion-40.gif[/img]

[Aggy 944]

Well, given that nothing has changed, apart from there now being a couple more rumours to add to the mix, I''d have to say it is exactly the same.

What evidence was there, and even what evidence is there now, that players "look to be wanting to up their wages" and will be heading with Lambert to Villa? One more rumour about Lambert going to Villa? Even if Lambert goes, I still don''t understand the sentiment of all our players suddenly being up in arms and shouting about their low wages. There is simply nothing to suggest that is the case. Of course if they got offered more elsewhere they would take it - who wouldn''t? - but what evidence is there that players are kicking up a fuss about it?