And I've said that compensation may have to be agreed or decided by arbitration.
But what are Pats going to do to stop him taking over at Dundalk tomorrow?
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And thats never been done in LoI before... ironically one of the reasons Dundalk could afford to approach Stephen Kenny is that he was still getting part of his gardening leave pay from Rovers so helped soften what was step backward with the wreck the club was in after a previous owner and new owners wanting and getting their man and its was a reasonably good match up in the end - history repeating itself would be fine with me!
He had a clause in his contract allowing him to leave for a certain amount. €10k I think I read.
Which Pats paid, allowing him to leave.
I’m sure Pats have a figure in mind to agree O’Donnell’s release. Dundalk can either pay that now and get him announced; or announce him and end up paying damages on top of the compensation. Plus have the details of what he and they were up to in recent weeks aired in court. Their call. As I said, we’ll soon see.
So not small change to sign a PT manager. It will also cost his contract at St Pats for whatever thats worth. As has been said this will in all likelihood fizzle out and go away with some convoluted agreement with the kind of carefully worded amicable statements we have seen - usual stuff wishing each other well through gritted teeth but really just want to get it over and done with. St Pats will claim the moral victory and be facilitated to do so. Probably undisclosed fee stuff that many will claim to know and will range from token amounts from Dundalk fans to daft amounts by Pats fans. Neither will know the figure if there actually is ever one.
While it would be a pain if it goes to court then at least there will be an end to the more ludicrous stuff claimed. This type of dispute could be lobbed over to CAS by the judiciary here too if its between the clubs on compensation. It is not an expensive process in itself but the legal teams that each party would likely employ would be (all those possible trips abroad), more than any compensation involved here and there are no odds on winners with CAS, their costs are set but they dont order 'personal' cost to be payed iirc. if there are grey areas at all they tend to push things to their mediation process more these days rather than make a binding ruling straight up. The Irish football arbitrators were Gareth Farrelly and Stuart Gilhooly.....if they still are would they lean toward a former player/PFAI member/manager in a contract dispute with a club? - if its not a slam dunk, it rarely is, its rolling the dice.
Maybe the quiet party are the ones who have their ducks lined up, they have been planning things for weeks after all, others scrambling a defence and coming up with the panic contingency, a manager that Dundalk were told hands off by the club and that manager reaffirming his committment to his club publicly, with the 2 yr contract announced prior. The committment made lasted a few days when he was offered a better job.
Being an employee is not the same as being in a contract.
if sod is in breach of his contract (which I have no idea of)then pats can sue him.
i can’t remember the Guys name but a Chelsea player who took cocaine was sacked by them and then sued for millions .
like all these scenarios it willl be settled.
Adrian Mutu probably. Makes sense that contracts are not totally pointless and so the subtle difference is between an employee and contracted eh worker.
Barry McNamee has re signed for Harps. All is good in the world.
Mutu is still on the line to pay that money too isn't he? €17 million or so? The European Court of Human Rights was one of a few to reject his appeal. Tread carefully SOD, tread carefully. :D
This is it. Pat's clearly don't want SOD (or at least, they really shouldn't at this stage), Dundalk presumably do, so just agree compensation and be done with it. It's licensing season, so not as if Dundalk can refuse to pay any agreed sum.
You would imagine if SOD resigns and then refuses to, say, take coaching or get involved in new contracts at Pat's, then he's in breach of his contact there, so he probably is calling a bit of bluff. Can Pat's refuse to pay him while he's refusing to fulfil the terms of his contract? All nice and messy.
But much and all as SOD isn't coming out of this well at all, yeah, the best thing for everyone is just to settle and move on. And if the Dundalk board are on to him in the meantime about players, or agree they'll add a tenner a week to his contract to cover the time until the deal is agreed, probably not much Pat's can do about it.
The more interesting question is backroom staff - is SOD likely to try take Mathews from Pat's? Do either Pat's or Dundalk really care?
Sounds like that'd make it less likely he'd leave alright. One less messy strand to tie up
Pats most definitely don’t want O’Donnell now. The only thing left is the question of compensation. A deal will obviously be done. I wonder how Dundalk will be feeling though if SOD represented to them that he was a free agent, and that turns out not to be the case. Dundalk welcome to him in any event.
As for Alan Matthews, he is on the board, as mentioned, so unlikely to be going anywhere, not that I’d be heartbroken if he was. I don’t know if MClancy has his badges, hopefully he has, so there is no need for this fiction of who is in charge. Funniest rumour is that Staunton is part of the ticket as the “gaffer” at Dundalk. Can’t see it being true, but here’s hoping !
Clancy is only down on linkedin as a Pro candidate but has the A licence. What's the requirement the A or the Pro ?