Quote ="DILLIGAF"If the takeover does go through, the only contracted players that can leave legally would be the ones who have cited breach of contract over the pensions issue. And even that's being disputed as to whether they can or not. It's not like the previous situations where administration / liquidation have rendered contracts null and void, a takeover means those contracts remain. I don't think there's even an argument to "do a Kopczak" if the current holding company are taken over, rather than people being TUPEd over to a new company.
Don't get me wrong, there'll still be heavy recruitment needed as the current roster isn't large, but they won't be starting from scratch in the same way of the last time.
I would think people are confident enough that the takeover will go through in the next 7 days, otherwise who in their right mind would call a fans forum at a club they don't even own yet? That would be the stuff of madness, and we never see any madness where this club is involved, do we? Oh wait.'"
Let's talk hypothetically, and not about the Bulls, as we (well I) don't know what has gone on, apart from the glib explanation of an "administrative error".
If it turned out that over the past couple of years, your employer was taking off you your pension contributions, but spending them instead of paying into the pension pot (plus breaking the law by not putting in the employer's contribution), then in the same way as if YOU had been stealing from your employer for 2 years would be grounds for summary dismissal, that must swing both ways.
So in the Bulls' case, it would depend on what the actual facts figures and reasons, if and when they emerge, but I can't see how anyone can "dispute" it unless that anyone can explain what actually happened. If it is true that it was an "administrative error" then that's great, they can simply move the money from wherever it was administratively misdirected, with fair interest, and all would (probably) be good.
