| I love how KJay tries to goad me into this sort of stuff!!
Jordan must think he has a strong case to be pursuing this matter, and therefore a little more than just Dowie verbally saying "I'd like to move up North to be near my family". If he has (and one would hope that as a succesful businessman....he has) then Charlton and/or Dowie are screwed and will have to pay the £1M compensation that formed Dowie's contract "get out".
If he has nothing other than conjecture then it's a futile gesture.
Of course, there will be the doomsayers from other clubs that will say "why pursue this, just let it go" but, as usual, I will fight our Chairman's corner on it. Just two weeks ago, supporters were saying to us, why are you putting such a big price on AJ's head....you'll never get it....that's silly money...that's much more than Crouch and Ashton went for....blah blah blah.
Well he stuck to his guns and got a damn good price in today's market. Now, he says ID has broken a point of law in his contract. If this is true, we stand to get £1m. So why would we not pursue it? We're not in a position to let people just walk out when we could get £1m in compensation so, as usual, he'll fight the clubs corner. Let's not forget it was his benevolence in letting Dowie leave as he claimed to be missing his family in the north that meant he was technically writing off the possibility of compensation only to see the guy then move 8 miles away!! |