Originally Posted by
Beach_Red
Yes. And the reason I keep coming back to permission is because it's really the only thing in this mess that's important to the team going forward. When agents negotiate with TFC the issue of their players being able to trial with bigger teams will be important. There was no good reason to deny DeRo a trial with Celtic and yet TFC made it an issue.
So now, agents will likely only talk to TFC about very short-term contracts that will be very easy to get out of and that's not the best way forward in team building.
We're seeing it already with Attakora. With six months left on his contract before he can negotiate with another team TFC approached him about an extension of four years and his agent said no. Maybe two years. And likely with no option years as DeRo signed.