Quote Originally Posted by WTF11 View Post
No, they (the club), don't "hold all the cards", never have, never will. The player and their agent are all powerful since the EU ruling on freedom of contracts (can't remember but it's named after a player of some sort, Bowman or something). Doesn't matter what the club's want, only what the player wants, anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand how the game works nowadays.
So what's the point of contracts then?