posh to sue

[juddie]

Peterborough director of football Barry Fry has revealed that the club will sue recent signing Craig Mackail-Smith if he does not attend training on Monday.
The striker, 22, joined Posh from Dagenham & Redbridge for a reported fee of £125,000 on 29 January, and signed a four-and-a-half-year contract.

However, he has failed to turn up for training this week.

"I can only hope and pray that common sense prevails and he turns up on Monday," Fry told the club website.

The Posh chief insists that the Football Association and Football League have accepted Mackail-Smith's contract as valid.

"I expected Craig to report with the team for the rearranged League fixture with Swindon (on Tuesday). He did not turn up and will be fined for not turning up," Fry explained.

"We arranged for Craig to come in on Thursday, but again he did not turn up and will be fined again.

"We have informed Craig's solicitors that if he does not attend training on Monday, we will fine him a a maximum of two weeks' wages.

"We have been informed we cannot sue the lawyer because he is acting on advice from his client, but we can begin legal proceedings against the agent Robert Codner for procurement of breach of contract, and also sue the player for breach of contract and damages."  :shock:

[Rich Pullen]

How bizarre.

[Sippo]

How can they sue him? Surely they would just terminate his contract?

[Rich Pullen]

How can they sue him? Surely they would just terminate his contract?

I guess Dagenham and Redbridge can buy him back for £125,000!

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I remember Robert Codner, he used to play for Brighton - FACT!

[Batch]

How bizarre.

Yeah, presumaby he had to go through a medical and actually sign the contract himself so I wonder why he is AWOL?

[Rich Pullen]

How bizarre.

Yeah, presumaby he had to go through a medical and actually sign the contract himself so I wonder why he is AWOL?

To be honest I was quite suprised that Peterborough had announced that he signed for them. It looked pretty certain that he was staying with D&R.

[The_Plagiarist]

How can they sue him? Surely they would just terminate his contract?

I think thats the point, they don't want to terminate his contract. They want to keep him but he seems to have changed his mind and isn't turning up to work!

Adrian Durham that unbearable twat on talksport was banging on about this the other night being a peterborough fan and said that this was all agreed at the start of january, the fee and contract and everything, then the player was going to actually join them at the end of january. Then Sunderland started to show an interest during january and he's not turning up for work!

hats off to the fella I say, it certainly pissed that ginger cunt durham right off which is a big thumbs up in my book

[millom red]

I read somewhere( a posh forum i think) that he has family illness problems or something like that. Even if that is true, you would think he would haved phoned em at the very least!

 :shock: