When's rules ever had anything to do with it when it comes to the Hun?
They'll be looking at normal employment law, no doubt hoping that they can goad us into making a mistake.
This no doubt is the reason he was in the dugout on Sunday.
What does a "proper" contract mean? I've been a contracted employee of various companies, none of that stopped me from speaking to other employers or even accepting job offers. Of course there were contractual obligations (notice periods etc). Anything that prevents Deek speaking to Hunco would have to be an explicit (and fairly unusual) specific provision in his contract and/or something in the governing bodies' rules.
There may be more or less standard forms of words for fitba managers contracts where an agreement to compensation is built in, or they are maybe more bespoke depending on what has been agreed by manager and club.
I just wish I had a better idea how this works because there's an awful lot of speculation about what will happen based on even vaguer speculation about what the legal position might be.
Actually, quite a lot of standard work contracts have provision in them that stop you from moving to a direct competitor. Ok, these wouldn't have buy out clauses in them but that's the uniqueness of the fitba contract. Perhaps Derek will just end up on gardening leave. What a crappy period of the year to be left to do gardening though.
I see the BBC website is full of more speculation today. Daily Record yesterday suggesting we should go for Murty as McInnes replacement. Whole thing is an absolute joke. Please just get it sorted out once and for all today, whole thing is making AFC look like total mugs and I don't think there's really much anyone can do to stop us looking that way, apart from McInnes who could simply come out and say - "I don't want the job, stop talking about it." The silence is deafening. There's no way back for him now anyway.
I think the simplest way to look at this is that it is a fixed term contract, so essentially, his notice period is June 2020.
He can only leave earlier than this upon agreement and they have written this into the contract for the parameters that must be met to gain agreement.
Thats not to say that they could not accept less than that, but its the level at which there is no longer a question to be asked or a decision to be made.
Whatever happens get him to f u c k now. Any manger that would even talk to Sevco is not "fit and proper" to manage AFC.
Enjoy the glib and shameless war chest Del, and trying to sell the delusionals Calvin Zola as the new Stench Hately.