AFL commentator James Brayshaw has proposed a bold rethink of how clubs deal with players who ask to leave while still under contract, suggesting they should forfeit any financial guarantees if they walk away.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Triple M, Brayshaw argued that too many drawn-out disputes could be avoided if responsibility shifted back to players once they demand a move.<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s the end of our involvement financially\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you sign a seven-year deal, let\u2019s say, for a million dollars a year and then three years into that deal, your manager and you say to the club, \u2018I want out, I want to go somewhere else,\u2019\u201d Brayshaw said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point, the club doesn\u2019t have to guarantee you another cent. You go to the club you want to go to and do a deal with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the club ships you off, they\u2019ve got to keep paying whatever it is to get you to a million, because it\u2019s their decision to get rid of you, but if you make the call, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be here anymore, I want to leave,\u2019 then [the club] turns around and says, \u2018That\u2019s fine, but that\u2019s the end of our involvement financially.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, that is the simplest fix for all of this. That\u2019s the fairest way to go forward with all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brayshaw\u2019s comments come as debate rages across the competition about the power balance between players, managers and clubs when it comes to long-term contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL commentator James Brayshaw has proposed a bold rethink of how clubs deal with players who ask to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-157247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}