To the Owners (merged)

Quoted from Poojah

This is something I really struggle to wrap my head around. To the best of my knowledge, there is no mandatory template set out by the LMA or FA which dictates that there must be X amount of compensation in the event that the club wishes to terminate the contract early.

I appreciate that the manager has his own interests, but Artell was already out of work and there are far more unemployed managers than there are available positions at any given time. Surely the power is in the hands of the club.

I know that the kind of fixed-term contracts commonplace in football are different to most “real world” employment contracts, but surely clubs have the power to protect themselves against gross underperformance?

I say this admittedly not as a student of contract law or as someone totally au fait with the minutiae of the world of football, but if the club has left itself in a position where it is seriously cost prohibitive to remove the manager from his post in the context of the circus on the pitch, then it seems naive to say the least.

Happy to be corrected by anyone who knows more about the subject matter than I do, however.

Quoted from MarinerMal

The idea when trying to attract a new manager is to make the club as attractive as possible. Putting the sort of clauses in the contract that have been mentioned on here would make most perspective managers think twice before accepting a contact at a club that has been struggling for over a decade. I don't think many managers would sign such a contract given situations in a football club can develop that are largely out of their control.

I'm not sure if it would be the case with Artell but if he were to be fired. There have been occasions with other managers at other clubs where the agreement is they will continue to be paid their weekly wage/monthly salary until the end of the contract or their next appointment, whichever comes sooner.

Quoted from TwoLeftFeet

Surely there's no chance we have to pay any manager sacked the full remaining salary in this case best part of 2.5 years..I would expect any business to have protected against this outcome with maybe a 6 month payoff or similar..

If we haven't that would be crazy and I'm sure DA wasn't so much in demand that he would have been afforded that..

Quoted from Mappers

Wouldn't suprise me if he had the better end of any termination  .

A good used car salesman , with your vehicle breaking down as you drive it off the forecourt .

Sells the dream

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Well in this case that would mean till the end of the contract wouldn't it?!

The owners have been done up like a kipper if that's the case but I can't believe there aren't clauses to mitigate against such a scenario.

Quoted from MarinerMal

Nobody has been 'done up like a kipper' here. Things just don't seem to have worked out here (at least, yet) and that happens in football all the time. The owners want to play certain brand of football and DA had achieved promotion from this division in the recent past so on paper seemed a good fit. I don't remember too many fans at the time calling it a bad appointment.

Looking at the stats from some of our recent games suggest we haven't been as bad as some have made out (Donny scored 5 goals with 4 shots on target on Saturday) but it is a results driven business and results have been shocking, there is no way of getting away from that. But it shows the fine lines in football and no appointment, especially at this level, is ever guaranteed.