Micah Richards - Released

[Gareth]

Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?

To claim on insurance the player has to accept his professional career is over is the long and short of it (see P.McGrath esq!) he’ll still only be 30/31 when his contract ends & if he still thinks he can play he maybe has 5/6 years playing.

As for paying him off if the 35k a week is accurate it would still cost between 2-2.5m to do it now....would have been 4m+ last summer which was more than we spent on fees in that window & would have added to ffp nightmare as a one off cost

[Comrade Blitz]

If his professionalism is so admirable why doesn't he take a pay cut so that he can move to another club?

Or just stop living in the past/in denial and retire. ******.

[cdbearsfan]

He feels he can still play. Why would he retire?

[Risso]

Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?

then there is the assumption that this is insured, if we knew this was known when we signed him then I doubt it is covered.

You can't sign a player without insurance.

True, but surely the insurance company can exclude known problems from the list of things they’d pay out on. I’ve got issues with my back, so my income protection insurance won’t pay out if I’m off work with a bad back.

[dicedlam]

Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?

To claim on insurance the player has to accept his professional career is over is the long and short of it (see P.McGrath esq!) he’ll still only be 30/31 when his contract ends & if he still thinks he can play he maybe has 5/6 years playing.

As for paying him off if the 35k a week is accurate it would still cost between 2-2.5m to do it now....would have been 4m+ last summer which was more than we spent on fees in that window & would have added to ffp nightmare as a one off cost

So we insure him and he gets to decide whether we make a claim for him being crocked. Surely it is the club who would come to that decision?

Also, I reckon we should drop down a couple of more divisions, then we might only have to pay him fifty bob a week!

[SoccerHQ]

I think it will be the case we'll get to six months left and both parties will mutually consent the deal. Think we did that with Habib Beye.

Might even happen in the summer if we have premier league income again.

[PeterWithesShin]

Threads like this always show how blinkered we as fans are. Player we don't want doesn't leave and take a pay cut when we want them to, unprofessional ******. Player we like and want says he wants to leave, ungrateful ******.

[KevinGage]

Seeing as Snodgrass looks like the new Minister for Mirth and Merriment there is even less reason to keep this clown around.

[Canadian Villa]

Would you take a pay cut and leave your current work?? No, so let's get off that topic.

[Damo70]

I think the way it works is that if he quits playing we pay up his contract and claim it back on the insurance. I also think that if he comes out of retirement to play again his new club has to pay back the insurance payout. I'm sure I can recall examples in the past but the specific names of the players escape me. I think Gary Waddock was one and he retired with injury from QPR, got back to fitness in non league and then signed for Millwall who had to pay money to the insurers.

[Lastfootstamper]

I think it happened with Ian Olney. He was playing for Kidderminster when they did/didn't get promoted to the league, but he couldn't have played for them at that level cos of his payout.

Well, so said my mate who worked with him at an insurance company back when.

[achilles]

Can someone ask what the hell is happening with Micah Richards at the next fan representation meeting (or whatever it is called), please?

[cdbearsfan]

They won't discuss playing matters. Nor should they.

[sickbeggar]

I'm not sure asking about Richards qualifies as discussing playing matters.

[sickbeggar]

Threads like this always show how blinkered we as fans are. Player we don't want doesn't leave and take a pay cut when we want them to, unprofessional c***. Player we like and want says he wants to leave, ungrateful c***.

mebbe, the club (fools that they were) offered him a contract - our fault all told, BUT what do you get out of it coming into work when you're not ill, but just incapable of doing the job? the Money i guess but i'd feel a bit of a sham doing it. Walking around doing nothing.........just a mascot all told. i'd get him coaching the youth if he's not doing it already because it's about self respect isn't it? If he's not going to take a pay-off most of us could never dream of because he wants to top up his pension fund then fine, but do something, anything.......