QuotePlayers are not long complaining when clubs do not honour contracts. So the question going forward is can clubs start ripping up contracts for personal reasonsOriginally Posted by Dodge
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Players are not long complaining when clubs do not honour contracts. So the question going forward is can clubs start ripping up contracts for personal reasons
Fenn's statement, through the PFAI, just released, at 1.30pm:
STATEMENT FROM NEALE FENN THROUGH THE PFAI
Having regard to statements released on Thursday 5 August 2010 by Dundalk Football Club and Dundalk Football Club manager, Mr Ian Foster, I feel it necessary to clarify my position.
The situation is that for reasons which were mutually beneficial to the club and myself it was agreed last month that my contract would be cancelled. At that stage I had not been contacted by any other club and had intended to retire. However, shortly after it became public in the media that I had been released, and was therefore a free agent, I received a call from Mr Michael O’Neill, Shamrock Rovers manager, who offered me an opportunity I could not turn down.
I have always had the utmost respect for Dundalk Football Club and their supporters and I am very disappointed that any adverse allegations are being made. I am happy that I have always acted properly, fairly and within the rules of the association.
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How do you say "Retire and we'll offer you a contract" in Italian...
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that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
A ridiculous statement from Fenn.
How was it "mutually beneficial" for Fenn's contract to be cancelled? He was playing well and captained the team on 9 occasions. He approached the club within one week of the transfer deadline with a sob story. The club were stunned but accepted that he wished to retire.
His attempted spin further diminishes him in my estimation.
ha ha, very good dfx
A statement from Neale Fenn's lawyer/the PFAI more like.....
This thread is hilarious btw. After all thats gone on over the last decade in the League, the level of faux outrage and shock that gushes out on here every time a person, club or body behaves with anything less than the highest moral principles is bizarre. Its like going to Naomi Campbell's house every day and expecting Mother Teresa to be inside*.
* and alive
No mention from Fenn now of the "personal reasons" which have seem to have disappeared.
What a dirtbox, even in LoI terms.
He's implying Dundalk wanted him off the wage bill.
Hilarious alright that Fenn doesn't mention the personal reasons or indeed refute any of the other statements Dundalk or Foster made
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Hilarious alright. I wonder what the rest of the PFAI members think of the PFAI supporting Fenn. Its going to spoil it for players who genuinely want to retire or just want to get out of a contract. Who does Mc Guinness report to? how can he support this when he is always crying about players contracts. I still cant believe whats going on here. The FAI need to come out with some sort of a statement condemming this not that it will be any use, but it still needs to happen.
Lots of money???
Here on a technicality.
As above UI'm sure they're delighted to see a player get more money
His members, the playersWho does Mc Guinness report to?
They need to investigate and if Rovers did anything, they can condemn it. If all Fenn did was dupe the Dundalk board (without Rovers knowledge) then what's the point of any statement?The FAI need to come out with some sort of a statement condemming this not that it will be any use, but it still needs to happen.
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I'd say they'd expect their union to support a member
It won't change, because all that will happen is that clubs will hold on to the players registration. As most clubs would've in the same circumstances anyway (I'm 99% sure we've done it on a number of occasions)
The PFAI members - who else do you expect him to report too?
You (and others) are confusing two issues imo. Dundalk didn't have to release him - he didn't unilaterally tear up his contract as seems to be todays take on it. And to repeat, they could've let him retire but held his registration until the end of the season (if even that long - end of the window might've done).
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
I think this is about right.
I find it strange that Fenn discussed his "retirement" with the club on 24th July and agreed that it would be made public on July 29th. Yet on July 28th he was a guest of Shamrock Rovers when they took on Juventus in the qualifying round of the Champions League.
This is suspicious and merits investigation by the FAI.
You (and others) are confusing two issues imo. Dundalk didn't have to release him - he didn't unilaterally tear up his contract as seems to be todays take on it. And to repeat, they could've let him retire but held his registration until the end of the season (if even that long - end of the window might've done).
They didnt hold his registration as he stated that he still wanted to play a little bit of football ( suppose he got that right as its only Rovers we are talking about )
That is some pathetic fluffy statement from Fenn, or should I say from the PFAI
If it was as innocent as Fenn says and that it was in Dundalk's interests for him to leave the club then he'll have no bother in suing Dundalk and Foster for slander in light of their damning statements last night.
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..........much the same as rascist chanting, pitch invasions, attacking LUAS, tapping up players - just because the FAI say it didnt happen doesn't make it any less trueTell us mb, what's your opinion on them supposed moon landings? Or the extra bullet from the grassy knoll?
They could've released if, or when, he signed for a junior club - there was no need to do it there and then.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
i agree on the point that Fenn's conduct is questionable at best, but on this point there must have been at least 20 players from other clubs at that game and plenty of retired players too. I doubt very much they were trying to sign them all!
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I was one of the first posters on thread a felt that there was something behind it - rumours were flying and one was that Dundalk wanted to trim the wage bill and Rovers wanted him but wouldn't/couldn't pay a fee. Gradually it all revealed itself and now it's a complete mess. Nothing in the LOI is a surprise, as a Dundalk fan I don't see the club as being blameless and there is no way they're as dumb or innocent as has been made out - they used a ridiculous excuse to sack Dave Rogers last year to cut out some expenses, and now Fenn is jumping ship.
On a side note, I now am certain that Rovers will fall short again, when a club pulls something like this they will always suffer. The PFAI have proved they're not in it for the development of the sport and that's okay, but it just makes a further joke of our league and lets the half heads who were wearing red shirts in teh Avivia this week even less reasons to step into a run down cow shed in a field somewhere.
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