In general, yes, a club can refuse, but it’s a bad situation for a team to keep a player that wants to leave and is getting offers. The opposite situation, selling a player that would like to stay, is more common, but a player that really doesn’t want to go somewhere else can refuse to sign a contract with the team…

Higuain had a release clause in his contract that more or less matched the fee Juventus paid. A release clause obligates an owning club to come to an agreement with a bidding club if they meet the figure outlined, so long as the player wants to go to the bidding club. Some players have release clauses built into their…

They could’ve done what Liverpool did a few years ago when Arsenal tried to trigger Luis Suarez buy-out clause: flat-out lie. Arsenal offered an incredibly precise amount to Liverpool to trigger his buyout clause (suggesting someone else on the inside), and Liverpool just stonewalled them, and suggested Arsenal were…

Usually you’re right, but certain players (again, it varies player-to-player, except in Spain where it’s a contractual requirement) have a clause in their contract that sets a price for them that the club is required to accept from any bidder (then the player is free to negotiate with the potential new club).

Depends. Most stars have contracts specifying a threshold fee over which bids must be accepted

Who knows? But to cite the defense of the city from the Nazis in a criticism of the player is bad form. It is exaggerated and petty.

So the good people of Naples drove out the Nazi’s but its football team couldn’t muster the resistance and had to succumb to a pushy agent and a duplicitous striker, and was forced to accept € 41 million gross profit on the purported fink’s sale to a hated rival?

Good news for you, they’d never release specific lyrics.

This may be a top 15 gif, all-time. Very strong.

I guess I just don’t understand why this WYTS article has words, and isn’t just this:

Say what you will but they have a perfectly respectable 6 - 3 record in imaginary match ups with Alabama.

6 NFC Championship appearances and 1 Super Bowl appearance in 10 years but nothing to show for it but shame, misdirected anger, and jealousy. It’s questionable whether or not Philly will ever have another trifecta as good as Andy Reid, Donovan McNabb, and Brian Westbrook.

“Those peanuts would go great with the milk I’ve kept in my mouth for the past 5 hours”

read what you just wrote out loud to yourself

TO CLARIFY: i dont KNOW, but it’s strongly assumed (and rumoured by that eurogamer piece) that the reveal is coming in September. And it’s already the end of July.

Three hours at a football game is three hours that somebody is not gambling. Casinos aren't in the business of encouraging visitors to spend time outside.

Voting someone out of office yet sill facing a billion dollars in bond payments for the next 20 years, sure seems like a hollow victory to me.

Unfortunately, they’re starting to take a step back from it to go “mainstream” as evidenced by Hearts of Iron 4.

I’m in the bar business, catering to the 21-26 demographic. If espn has lost 12% of their subscribers, I’m willing to bet it’s far far higher in the 21-26 group. It seems as if almost none of them get cable at all. This is good for my business as suddenly bars are a destination again to watch sports. Business for NFL,…