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20:47 refers to a draft contract that would be entered into if the option was exercised. So the contract hasn’t been entered into and therefore no losses can be linked to it. That’s my interpretation anyway.

I wonder if it hinges on if the contract includes something along the lines of ‘subject to the successful registration of the player’?

Could they have included him in their squad whilst an appeal was pending? I genuinely don’t know

It doesn’t mean nothing but it doesn’t mean everything either.

I think you’d have to prove negligence for costs to be playable. At what point incompetence becomes negligence, I don’t know…

I don’t think Forest could have chosen to put O’Brien on their squad list whilst we were appealing but I may not wrong. I personally think the squad lists are a bad idea in this case without them Forest could now choose to play him should they wish to do so.

Did we take the other one to arbitration too! Im only asking as I’m wondering if we made identical mistakes or different ones!

Purely on the £10 million fee, surely you’ll concede that if we’re not promoted Forest wouldn’t have been due the money and if we are they could still choose to sell him to us for the same fee. I think they’d find it hard to prove , if we don’t go up, that we would have done if the signing had been completed. Huge potential losses indeed, but I’d argue very few provable ones. Still a big fuck up though!

Why would we have to pay O’Brien’s wages when he still has a contract with Forest? Appearance bonuses etc I could just about understand but not basic wage O’Brien himself would have to mitigate any perceived losses - I believe he can still move to the MLS, it might not be ideal for him but it is still an option that’s available.

I think if they wanted to do that they shouldn’t have gone to arbitration because we can now all see in black and white that it wasn’t (solely) his fault

Shouldn’t who they’ve drawn be a factor in the odds?

Go on Mercer…

Sobers?

18/19th March

I see we submitted a Notice of Arbitration on 13 February and an amended Notice of Arbitration the following day. Did we manage to mess this up first time too??

It will be alright, just cough when the Dr tells you to…

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I’m presuming those things aren’t linked 😁

Of the non wins, did you note how many were draws and how many were losses?

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Maybe have a crack at ‘in that way blue and white army’

Why does not being able to afford it, being ill, or being at work count as an excuse - surely a ‘true fan’ would be there come what may (insert sarcasm emoji here)

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