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The Johan Goosen - Racing 92 Retirement Debacle
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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 831480" data-attributes="member: 55747"><p>It is very, very rare for a professional athlete who earns half a million a year to give up his sports career to work on a corporate job. It's not impossible, but it is incredibly rare. </p><p></p><p>I assume if retiring was a valid reason to breach a contract people would have exploited that loophole already. In these sort of things i tend look at who's got the biggest wallet (therefore lawyers) and more experience and teams/franchises do this way more often than players. </p><p></p><p>Then again, you've got cases like Brian Mujati and the Lions and it makes you wonder so i guess you have a point. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because my experience indicates it is incredibly rare. For every player you name that's done something of that sort there are tens of thousands of corporate workers who'd happily do the opposite if they could. </p><p>Again, not impossible but i look at the odds and have to second guess his motives. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree with there is surely more to this story, but as far as i understand he hasn't paid back all the money he received as advances. Moving somewhere else, changes in jurisdiction, getting a good lawyer, who knows, he might even get away with it. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Agree to disagree i guess. I'm with themole25 here. </p><p>They way i see it relates to what i do i guess: if i hire a consultant and chose not to give him anything to do and have him sitting on a chair all day contributing nothing whatsoever, i still have to pay him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 831480, member: 55747"] It is very, very rare for a professional athlete who earns half a million a year to give up his sports career to work on a corporate job. It's not impossible, but it is incredibly rare. I assume if retiring was a valid reason to breach a contract people would have exploited that loophole already. In these sort of things i tend look at who's got the biggest wallet (therefore lawyers) and more experience and teams/franchises do this way more often than players. Then again, you've got cases like Brian Mujati and the Lions and it makes you wonder so i guess you have a point. Because my experience indicates it is incredibly rare. For every player you name that's done something of that sort there are tens of thousands of corporate workers who'd happily do the opposite if they could. Again, not impossible but i look at the odds and have to second guess his motives. I agree with there is surely more to this story, but as far as i understand he hasn't paid back all the money he received as advances. Moving somewhere else, changes in jurisdiction, getting a good lawyer, who knows, he might even get away with it. Agree to disagree i guess. I'm with themole25 here. They way i see it relates to what i do i guess: if i hire a consultant and chose not to give him anything to do and have him sitting on a chair all day contributing nothing whatsoever, i still have to pay him. [/QUOTE]
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