03-08-2023, 11:21 AM
(03-08-2023, 11:18 AM)Shawoddyred Wrote:(03-08-2023, 11:11 AM)wassy04 Wrote:(03-08-2023, 11:06 AM)Shawoddyred Wrote:(03-08-2023, 11:01 AM)wassy04 Wrote:(03-08-2023, 10:59 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote: Yes, but as I said earlier, that's just the player payments. It also says we're behind on payments to agents and it doesn't say anything about when they'll be paid.
Whether we like it or not it *is* a story and the club shouldn't be allowing it to happen.
Agreed, reread it and it says the bonuses were due end nof July. Never a positive sign when payments aren't going through on time.
The agents thing doesn't sound good either. Be good to hear from the club on this one.
It doesn't say player bonusses are late, it's says they are due end August.
Agents, yeah, fine, a couple of days late......the biggest companies in the world pay late, unfortunately I'm on the receiving end of that business nuance annoyingly regularly. It does not stop me doing business with those companies and it will not stop agents from dealing with Forest.
"Mail Sport understands that those who left the club this summer were due to be paid their bonuses for last season, which include Premier League survival payments, at the end of July."
It says they are now going to be paid end of August. If I was paid an annual bonus a month late I'd be pretty pissed personally. Nor say companies don't do it and it's probably just a payroll error or misunderstanding from whichever released player has leaked this. However, non payments is the top of the slippery slope when it comes to football club issues.
Given the list of players who have left and therefore due their bonus a month early, I'd be pretty delighted if I were them to be getting anything at all for staying in the league. None of them helped much. You and I are probably living paycheque to paycheque....so yeah a month late would matter. I doubt any of them are, they'll live. Also, by 'leaking' this to the press it is significantly more legally/contractually reprehensible than a late payment.
Anyway, it's a complete non-story designed by someone to cause another shite-storm in a tea cup. Who gives a shite about players that don't play for us anymore and agents who fleece us constantly. In fact, the agents trying to get their 'bonus' money out of us might be inclined to do more deals with us to help push through the existing payments on top of new ones. Another weird business nuance.
Well the article essentially implies our current players were also expected to be paid in July, not sure why only released players would get them then so if so will likely rile some people up.
This is not good business practise, well run clubs do not have these types of stories leak out.