Kyle Naughton

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bluebloodinmyveins said:
Like i said before. We had an agreement with Utd for Naughton, that agreement is a binding contract. Utd can not then change their minds and demand more money. Legally we have them by the balls on this one.
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Well forgive me for taking your legal "expertise" with a pinch of salt. Quite clearly SU believe that they're entitled to do what they're doing. I presume they have consulted their own legal team on whether their current conduct is legally permissible.
 

On NSNO it looks like Naughton and Walker have both signed for Spurs. Its on the sheff forums aswell and a supposedly reliable source on the spurs forum has said its 100% done. There's a pic with the new spurs kit that comes out on friday with Naughton on the back.
 
Nebbiolo said:
Well forgive me for taking your legal "expertise" with a pinch of salt. Quite clearly SU believe that they're entitled to do what they're doing. I presume they have consulted their own legal team on whether their current conduct is legally permissible.
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As it happens, I agree with him that we are legally in the right. If sheff Utd have asked for legal advice, these things don't happen overnight, and Sheff Utd are within their rights to say "don't talk to our player while we confirm our legal position".

However, there's a difference between being legally enforcable and practically enforcable. Maybe we could enforce the agreement in court, but how long would that take? Weeks? Months? It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Sheff United are dragging out the legal question because they know we want the player soon (with preseason now starting and the transfer deadline 6 weeks away). They could be employing delaying tactics hoping we'll say "sod it" and just pay the extra million to have him right now.

All speculation on my part of course, but I think it's plausible.
 

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Ready for him for the weekend! before you say ''anyone could get a shirt and print that on it''

1) New shirt not out till fri
2)Full size Lextra player issue letters and number

Thats what he said.

edit...some other bloke who is so called 'in the know' has said that nothing has been decided and Spurs are playing the waiting game like us.

He also said 'oh yeah could be done without him knowing
but if he asks the right people he will generaly get the honest answer
he's more convinced the crouch deals going to happen than naughton anytime soon'
 
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What a CNUT!

Lock the thread.
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Micky said:
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Ready for him for the weekend! before you say ''anyone could get a shirt and print that on it''

1) New shirt not out till fri
2)Full size Lextra player issue letters and number

Thats what he said.

edit...some other bloke who is so called 'in the know' has said that nothing has been decided and Spurs are playing the waiting game like us.

He also said 'oh yeah could be done without him knowing
but if he asks the right people he will generaly get the honest answer
he's more convinced the crouch deals going to happen than naughton anytime soon'
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That is clearly our away kit from last season :lol:
 

lordyefc said:
As it happens, I agree with him that we are legally in the right. If sheff Utd have asked for legal advice, these things don't happen overnight, and Sheff Utd are within their rights to say "don't talk to our player while we confirm our legal position".

However, there's a difference between being legally enforcable and practically enforcable. Maybe we could enforce the agreement in court, but how long would that take? Weeks? Months? It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Sheff United are dragging out the legal question because they know we want the player soon (with preseason now starting and the transfer deadline 6 weeks away). They could be employing delaying tactics hoping we'll say "sod it" and just pay the extra million to have him right now.

All speculation on my part of course, but I think it's plausible.
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Have we even established the legal position on this? I don't think we have, other than a previous claim in this thread that a verbal agreement is the same as a signed contract. As far as I am aware, we would need some type of precedent to point the way. I'm not aware that any such precedent exists in the complicated world of football transfers. At the moment we're second-guessing what a court would find.

Obviously if you can find an example of why we're legally entitled to rights over Naughton at this time, I'd be interested in that.
 
Id just like what Wobbily Head's response if one of the press gang ask him about Everton being angry about him nicking Naughton...and what what Naughton has to say.

Make em a bit uncomfortable me thinks.
 
Nebbiolo said:
Have we even established the legal position on this? I don't think we have, other than a previous claim in this thread that a verbal agreement is the same as a signed contract. As far as I am aware, we would need some type precedent to point the way. I'm not aware that any such precedent exists in the complicated world of football transfers. At the moment we're second-guessing what a court would find.

Obviously if you can find an example of why we're legally entitled to rights over Naughton at this time, I'd be interested in that.
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It's contract law. The "previous claim in this thread that a verbal agreement is the same as a signed contract" is just a fact in UK law (except for land, but whatever). Even if there's no football case, you don't need precedent because this is really basic A makes offer/B accepts stuff.

Read through this if you can be bothered:

Offer and acceptance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Obviously, there's no evidence that this argument is actually happening, just that it would fit.
 

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