20 May 2015 15:29:41
Bartra reportedly available for £7.1m due to playing less than 60% of Barcelona's games.
Eds do you have any idea whether this is true or not and if so would you expect Arsenal to be among the interested clubs.
{Ed002's Note - Arsenal has shown no interest in him.}
20 May 2015 22:34:59
Is that really such a clause in players contracts?
{Ed001's Note - some players do have clauses such as that, though they are difficult to enforce in England, so it doesn't tend to happen here.}
21 May 2015 07:59:16
Thanks ed! Never knew that one. Sounds a strange one. Must be a lot of stipulations in it with injuries and form and such. Sounds a stupid clause to me
{Ed001's Note - it depends on the player, but usually it would be a when fit to play they have to play X amount of times. It is usually when a smaller club is picking up an older player, with a big rep, who is not sure which team to join. There are a few younger players in Spanish football that have similar sorts of clauses, such as Odegaard having a clause that he trains with the first team a number of times each week. That led to a falling out with the club, when he refused to turn up for training with Castilla and Zidane dropped him as a result. It does seem to have been settled now.}