Stealing implies you didn't pay for something otherwise any time a transfer is made through paying the release clause its "stealing"... it isn't and arguing as such is stupid but knock yourself out I guess.
Its not a loophole ether its designed to save teams from injury crisis hence part of the rules...
So what would you call it when one team is allowed to sign a player outside of the transfer window, and the team losing the player can’t replace him? I mean, vocabulary officer, I don’t think stealing is unfair to use because, there Leganes wouldn’t have sold him for that price but because the mandatory, enforceable release clause they did not have a choice. You haven’t corrected me as being wrong on anything else that I mentioned aside from you not liking the words steal and loophole, but I don’t think I am on the wrong track here.
if it’s not a loop hole can you please provide other examples of it being used recently ? Still haven’t seen this.
also regarding Spanish release clauses, are they not mandatory? maybe we can say the release clause was too low? But how do the release clauses on Leganes level teams compare to Barca level teams? Like how common is it for there to be 25m plus (just throwing a number out there) for players at Leganes level teams. No one is going to be at Leganes with a billion dollar release clause like Pedri is for example.
is exception rule La Liga only? I’m not familiar with any other time it had been used. I’ve seen emergency loan but that’s about it. It seems to me it’s a designed bailout for big teams like Barca. and Barca is certainly using mechanisms not accessible to other, smaller tiered teams still summer too. Which as I’ve said, it’s good for them, but I wouldn’t exactly say they are good guys here.
It's a dumb rule because it just creates pushes the issue onto another club. You should either use the depth you have or dip into your youth. It's not Barca's fault, but it's a 100% dumb rule.
Right. Which is why we shouldn’t be “dunking” on Leganes. That got dealt a lousy hand, and now we see what they are doing because of it.