LAMPS 'SETS CONTRACT DEADLINE
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Frank Lampard has reportedly set Chelsea a deadline of the end of the month to agree a new deal. According to The Times, the England midfielder is frustrated by the club's failure to offer him an acceptable new contract and he is considering buying himself out of the remaining two years of his current deal.
FIFA transfer rules mean Lampard will become eligible to buy himself out of his own contract in July because he is over the age of 28 and because he has served a three-year "protected period" with the club.
Lampard is threatening to activate the clause if the Blues fail to offer him a bumper new deal by the end of March, potentially paving the way for him to join another club on a free transfer in the close season.
Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid have both expressed their admiration for the midfielder in the past, while Serie A leaders Inter Milan would also be interested in a move.
The Times claims Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has not contacted Lampard's agent for more than three weeks, prompting the midfielder to make the threat.
The news is a double blow for Chelsea after contract talks with skipper John Terry broke down last week. Both Terry and Lampard are both reportedly upset at the club's refusal to offer them deals worth as much as the £130,000-a-week paid to summer signings Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko. -
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maybe he needs a change. he's been there all his life -
Naturally, the English pair will KB considering their performances on the pitch bettered than the foreign pair anytime.
The amt of $$ the foreign pair is getting per week really obscene. -
Terry demands £60m deal
JOHN TERRY’S contract negotiations with Chelsea have broken down over the England captain’s demand to be the best-paid player at the club for the next nine years. At current rates, the deal would be worth a minimum of £58.2m, making it the richest in British sporting history, but with new signings at the world’s biggest-spending club it would inevitably rise.
The “limitless parity” clause would guarantee that Terry was the highest-paid player at the club until beyond his 35th birthday. While Chelsea were prepared to increase his wages to the club’s current ceiling of £121,000 a week, which is paid to Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko, they could not accept the liability of promising the defender equivalence with the club’s best-remunerated player for the best part of the next decade.
Having initially proposed a deal until the summer of 2016, Chelsea are understood to be surprised and disappointed that Terry has rejected their revised offer of £6.3m a year until the end of 2011-12 season. Club officials are, however, sanguine about suggestions that Terry might exploit Fifa regulations and buy out his contract at the end of this season, believing that they appear to be based on a misreading of the relevant clause. Section IV of Fifa’s Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players dictates that players under the age of 28 can terminate their contracts a minimum of three years or seasons after their current deal came into force. As Terry, who is 26, resigned with Chelsea in November 2004, he cannot utilise the rule until the end of next season.
Chelsea have been eager to tie down their most important players with lucrative “golden handcuffs” deals. The club’s leading scorer Didier Drogba agreed a revised £91,000-a-week contract in November. Michael Essien, is the latest to sign.
With Terry the least likely of MourinhoÂ’s stalwarts to be invited abroad by the manager because of his perceived unsuitability to the foreign game, both Chelsea and their captain expected a new contract to be agreed long before the end of the current campaign. Last month Terry believed that all the negotiations had been completed and that the parity clause had been included. The contract remained unsigned and further negotiations concluded last Wednesday having failed to produce a resolution.
Terry’s present deal pays him £67,000 a week, a comparatively limited sum for a central figure at Stamford Bridge. His England teammate Lampard has been on £5m per annum since improving his terms in the summer of 2004. A source close to Terry said that parity with the club’s highest earners rather than the length of the new deal was his priority. David Beckham’s new contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy is worth a reputed £25.6m a year over five years. -
USED,u r wrong...he was a west ham player...
all the crap,lamps,wat "acceptable deal' he's juz demanding more $$$ from his boss roman..i guess his contract muz be 100000pounds liao...still not enough,so wat is acceptable?..btw,u see ppl like giggs scholes demanding a lot from manutd?No.Conclusion-lampard no loyalty,$face -
oh....i forgotOriginally posted by F.raon.I.R:USED,u r wrong...he was a west ham player...
all the crap,lamps,wat "acceptable deal' he's juz demanding more $$$ from his boss roman..i guess his contract muz be 100000pounds liao...still not enough,so wat is acceptable?..btw,u see ppl like giggs scholes demanding a lot from manutd?No.Conclusion-lampard no loyalty,$face
but he came to chelsea at a very young age. and lamps want to be paid the same as the new boys. he has a point cos he himself played more games than sheva and why should he receive any less. the problem started with ballack. wanted to be the highest paid player in epl. now creates disharmony among the top players -
These players earn so much.
If they one week 100,000 pounds, it will only take them two and a half months to make a million pounds. And their incentives haven't even been counted in yet, mind you. LOL -
cash cows.. dunno if this demands are real or not, but to demend a 6 figure weekly sum for a NINE YEAR PERIOD!! is seemly out of odds..
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I think he has only been there for like 4, 5 yrs only... Only when Roman came over then he join them... same with joe cole i think... He was bought by their previous coach.Originally posted by used:oh....i forgot
but he came to chelsea at a very young age. and lamps want to be paid the same as the new boys. he has a point cos he himself played more games than sheva and why should he receive any less. the problem started with ballack. wanted to be the highest paid player in epl. now creates disharmony among the top players -
Joe Cole came later.Originally posted by zocoss:I think he has only been there for like 4, 5 yrs only... Only when Roman came over then he join them... same with joe cole i think... He was bought by their previous coach.
But i kinda suspect, his wife might also have something to do with it. Its quite an open secret that she's a barca fan and all her family are. So maybe she's telling him sth like, either u ask for more money, or u leave and go barca or spain. -
Frank Lampard could leave this summer if Chelski don't meet his wage demands while John Terry apparently wants a nine-year deal (imagine how slow he'd be in nine years?), but Lampard claims: "If there are any two players who have got the best interests of this club in their hearts it is me and John."
The Chelsea stars are determined to ensure their contract problems do not overshadow the club's fight for more success this season. Captain Terry and England midfielder Lampard are trying to negotiate long-term extensions to their current contracts and want their respective situations resolved as soon as possible.
The club have yet to make a formal offer to Lampard while Terry is unhappy with the length of the contract put on the table by the club. Talks have been dragging on for months and the delay has sparked fresh speculation that they could quit the club in the summer.
However, both players are now reaching the final two years of their Stamford Bridge deals and want to stay. However, they want the same pay parity as top earners Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko - both reported to be earning around £130,000-a-week and Lampard is keen to ensure that the loyalty shown to the club by him and Terry is not taken for granted.
Lampard, 28, may well be in a position to buy himself out of the club in the summer under FIFA rules. But Terry cannot do the same and the Blues captain is unhappy with Chelsea's decision to reduce the length of their offer from nine years to five.
However, despite continuing concerns over their futures, both coach Jose Mourinho and chief-executive Peter Kenyon insist the pair will be at Stamford Bridge for years. Kenyon said: "We are confident the important players will be here for many years to come."