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Then again screwing your best player is just stupid.
Vou obviously don't follow soccer, buyouts in some spanish clubs go well over 100 mil
Anyone expecting rotation players from every mid 50s pick needs to share whatever he's smoking with the rest of us.
Then again screwing your best player is just stupid.
Vou obviously don't follow soccer, buyouts in some spanish clubs go well over 100 mil
If I were Scola, I'd piss all over that team next year. I'd be pissed as . That's straight up bondage and it's not right. , even the first American Idol contracts were worse and Kelly Clarkson got out of hers...
buyouts have to be high i mean if buy outs were just a dollar what would the purpose be of a contact at all
One thing doesn't fly in how often Scola said he expected to be in the NBA next year. Were these idle wishes? Moments when the going looked hopeful? Or is it not so bad as this article says?
Perhaps Scola, his agent, and the Spurs all thought Tau would try to work it out ... but they didn't.
I assume, primarily, Scola and his agent are negotiating with Tau with the Spurs in the background.
So isn't it basically up to Scola to pony up the buyout?
Did you see those figures? Basically nobody could afford that.So isn't it basically up to Scola to pony up the buyout?
I guess now we know why Scola was pissed when he didn't get drafted in the first round...
He wasn't happy about it and didn't try hiding it...I always thought he was kind of an ahole for reacting that way. I guess that also might explain why he got pissed when he was asked about coming to the Spurs during the Olympics as well(I thought it was because RC was calling him out on his rebounding).
Oh well...see ya when you're 30 Scola.
PS: We should try and hire the scout that signed him to that deal when he was 17, the guy evidentally has a great eye for talent.
If he could negotiate it down to 6-8million, it's doable. Scola will be a free agent in two or three years. He could be in for a nice payday, if he thinks about the buyout as an investment.
They've been trying to negotiate it for a few years. It doesn't look like it's getting reduced.If he could negotiate it down to 6-8million, it's doable.
Scola needs to demand a trade to a team that will be easier to buy out...
I wonder how much he makes per year...
It seems wrong that his buy out his so high for a contract he signed when he was 17...I wonder if he even makes a million per year...
That can't be fair...it seems like slavery actually.
So is arbitration out of the question?
There are no trades in Europe.
That's why I called it 'bondage' in a post above. I don't like the word slavery in this instance, since it carries such a massive historical resonance. Bondage fits better. In any case, it gets into the negative aspects of professional sports, where a player is forced to play for a team he doesn't want to. Players fought very hard for free agency and it's sad to see something like this happen to a young man who's until now played very hard for his team, TAU.That can't be fair...it seems like slavery actually.
Now that's just unAmerican!
Call it bondage all you want...but to me it looks like they own his ass so IMO it's slavery....and he came cheap.
Not to derail the thread... I only object to it because to compare a man who is making millions of dollars/euros/whatever to the victims of one of the greatest and most unholy of crimes this world has ever seen... it just rubs me a little wrong. So I go less for the hyperbole and try to find the correct word here.Call it bondage all you want...but to me it looks like they own his ass so IMO it's slavery....and he came cheap.
The dude signed the contract. Call it whatever you want, but its his own fault.
I see your point, ant it's a valid one...but if you ask me they are screwing this guy royally and they hold tremendous influence over his life...
It's one thing if he does make millions of dollars, it's entirely another if he doesn't...if he doesn't he's got no education to fall back on and he's basically forced to play for them to survive. It is a form of endentured servitude if you ask me...a mild form of it...but that's what it is IMO...
This guy was basically a minor when he signed that contract.
It just depends on how much he is making...if this club is that tight I can't see them giving a 17 year old big bucks...admittedly, I could be way off on this and he could be earning quite a bit.
In that position, and in that country... you take anything available.
Oh, we're in absolutely agreement, I was only quibbling about the word we were using. Not really important. I'm as sick as you are that a young man's destiny is being lorded over by a greedy ownership with a tin ear to his own desires. Sure, that may be tempered by the fact that I'm a big Spurs fan and I was looking forward to Scola being here... but I have the same thoughts with restricted free agency in the NBA, when a player is forced to continue playing for a team he might not want to. Trades often raises that, too - an athlete is forced to leave an area he considers home. Most of the time we're all okay with it, but this is a case when the dark side of professional sports reigns. I cannot in any way count myself a fan of TAU at this point and hope Scola considers sitting out the rest of his contract.I see your point, ant it's a valid one...but if you ask me they are screwing this guy royally and they hold tremendous influence over his life...
Where in the was the European age limit when it was needed?
I just don't see how the buyout can be more that the remaining value of the contract...
There is no way in that guy is going to get paid 14 million dollars by that club in the next 3 years...if he is well then...I guess that's fair.
I wonder if the original value of the contract was 14 million...although that seems like quite a bit for a 1997 Euroleague contract, that comes out to like 1.4 million per year...NBA rookies right now barely make that.
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