Nottingham Forest weaseled its way of of paying MLS

[Frank Cunha]

Nottingham Forest may have weaseled its way out of paying a MLS a performance bonus for Stern John.
John, was loaned to Forest three years ago, with one of the provisions being the English First Division club would pay MLS a 200,000 bonus should John score 15 goals in a season.


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[Frank Cunha]

John had 14 goals and got traded to fellow First Division club Birmingham City for 141.000 dollars. He did scored for is new team 1-0 over Barnsley.

[Frank Cunha]

Nottingham Forest is getting away twice, once with the injury to Olsen and know the last minute trade of Stern, to avoid paying the MLS.

[Manic Loop]

frank, the thing is with forest is that they cannot afford to pay £250,000 for a goal, when the player will be leavingat then end of the season for nothing. WE sold him to reduce our wage bill. it might be weaseling, but we had to do it, to kep the club in business

[Frank Cunha]

Nothingham Forest agree /I just feel sorry for the Mls they could use the money.

[Frank Cunha]

Nottingham Forest deals could hurt other loan's in the future :???

[Manic Loop]

£250,00 is not a great del of money though

[Frank Cunha]

Nottingham Forest 200,000 dollars is a lot of money when a major league soccer team only has a cap of 1million 700thousand dollars per team.
200,000 thousand dollars you could sign 4 players for 50.000 dollars a season.
The major soccer league as a cap of 1.7m. No team pass's that. Once the teams start to make more money the cap goes up. The highest a top player gets is 250.000 dollars.

[Frank Cunha]

Major league soccer you only allowed to sign three foreigner players. If you have a Visa or Green Card you are consider a resident and not count as a foreigner.

[Mark]

John had 14 goals and got traded to fellow First Division club Birmingham City for 141.000 dollars. He did scored for is new team 1-0 over Barnsley.
yeh but his 15th goal wasn't for forest so it doesn't count!!!

[Frank Cunha]

Correct that what's the fuss is all about. Nottingham new the deal and was a way not to pay the MLS.

[Rob the Red]

If you new anything about Forests situation then you wouldn't be saying this. MLS could do with £250,000! I think that Forest need it a bit more. And if you've got a player who is going to leave you at the end of the season and theres no need for him to stay what do you do? Get money for him.
On the matter of Ben Olsen, do you think we went out and deliberatly broke his ankle? I was at the game where he got injured and it was right in front of me. Did you see it? He wanted to come to us and we would have loved to have him, but we're not gonna pay £2million for someone who can't play because of injury.
Also whats all the talk of loan deals? How was it a loan when he is no longer under contract with you?

[Rob the Red]

And also its the stupid yanks fault for putting that clause in.

[barnsley-red]

Agreed

[Alex]

First of all, what is soccer?

Besides, it's not like we refused to pay the MLS. He didn't score 15 goals for us so we don't have to pay. Simple.

[Manic Loop]

very good point alex and rob. the thing is we work a totally different system to the US so we dont have give them money. if they need moeny cry to the government, not a bankrupy club. do you want to see a club go out of busniess over one greedy player? if you do then thats that shocking

[Alex]

do you want to see a club go out of busniess over one greedy player?

We'll be joining Osama and Sadam on Bush's hit-list next :sigh

[Manic Loop]

bush to bomb the city ground?

[Alex]

bush to bomb the city ground?

If he can find it. He'd probably napalm Sherwood before realising that Nottingham Forest is a football club and not an actual Forest.

[Manic Loop]

thatd be me out of a job then

[BirminghamBlues]

Well who really cares?
We got Stern John for next to nothing and he looks a good player.
His passing and vision is excellent, he creates goals and I hope he scores them too!
THANK YOU FOREST

[lapsed_fan]

The trouble with smart bombs is the morons using them

[mtfc]

I have heard worse news than bombing the city ground :)

[Rob the Red]

You saw the Greenacre thread? :laugh

[forest_4_ever]

well as far as im concerned!
David Platt signed him, he cocked up!
like usuall!
thers nothing no one can do about it!
Stern didnt score 15 goals at the club
forest cannot afford to pay silly clauses to other people!
they need all the money they can get! if you didnt notice their stocks froze! cause they are broke!