Animal is a Ram Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 What is football becoming? https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/middlesbrough-fc-launch-legal-action-14576489 Quote Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986) Limited are suing Birmingham City Football Club PLC as well as former England international James Beattie, Sean Rush, Ryan Needs and Darryl Flahavan. ... Promotion-chasing Boro fear that the quartet’s insider knowledge may give the relegation-fighting Blues a ‘competitive advantage’ over them. Their knowledge of ‘confidential information’ includes transfer targets and strategy, player wages and weaknesses, Boro’s lawyers say. Boro argue that a clause in the backroom team members’ contracts prevents them from working together, and alongside Monk, for their Championship rival until December 28 this year. *apologies if this is too much of the article... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 seems mental to me. If Monk couldn't use the knowledge to his advantage when manager of Middlesbro, how could he for Birmingham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Fair enough if it's in their contracts that they can't work for the competition for a period of time. It's the norm in many industries - though in my experience is not often enforced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 40 minutes ago, Wolfie said: Fair enough if it's in their contracts that they can't work for the competition for a period of time. It's the norm in many industries - though in my experience is not often enforced. Best they'd probably get is some money back from the individuals, and disrupt Brum ahead of the match, but they've no chance with the FA/EFL backing them up, it's possibly breach of contract but they're not going to see it as something that calls the integrity of the fixture into question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Love to know what competitive advantage 20th placed Birmingham have over 5th placed Boro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 It’s a bit poor if Boro consider Birmingham as their competitive rivals at this stage. Maybe preparing for next seasons when roles might be reversed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needles Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Come on Birmingham; get into 'em, **** em up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkleyram Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Technically Monk and the rest of them were probably 'unfairly dismissed' and as such would have been given a pay off which would have been subject to a legally binding agreement. Standard in those sorts of agreements are confidentiality clauses and agreements not to go to rivals for a set period of time. Sometimes 'rivals' are specifically defined in the contract (eg any club in the same division); sometimes it's left more general. What is interesting is that Boro have decided to pursue it (perhaps they want some of the pay off back) and that there was a clause preventing them from working together. As always the only real winners will be 'mi learned friends' but the rest of the football world will watch on with great interest, especially agents of managers and their 'teams' of backroom staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Pulis transfer targets will be different to the ones Monk may have had i'd of thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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