The Board of Directors of Athletic club, chaired by Aitor elizegi, is in favor of contracts that do not include termination clauses Because this way you have the possibility to participate and decide on transactions and influence situations that are usually “quite traumatic”, especially when they occur shortly before the market close.
“It is quite traumatic that transactions take place in the last hours of a market closing and you can run out of an asset that is essential for you and enters the sports planning that you have done for that season,” explained the accountant of the Bilbao club, Jon Ander de las Fuentes.
In the last renewals of players of special relevance of the rojiblanca squad, such as the international goalkeeper Unai Simón, club and player preferred to sign without a clause.
A formula also advocated by the previous Board chaired by Josu Urrutia, who in the final stretch of his mandate thus renewed, among others, the captain Iker Muniain.
And that, despite with Urrutia the club raised about 220 million euros for the departure of four players after paying its clauses: Kepa Arrizabalaga (80 million), Aymeric laporte (65), Javi martinez (40) and Ander Herrera (36).
In an appearance to make a first presentation of the accounts that will be presented to the members in the General Assembly of the club on December 27. De las Fuentes said in this regard that “what interests the club is that if someone is interested in any asset, they go to the club, sit down with the club and have the obligation to sit down with the club to try to reach an agreement with the parties “.
“That is the great advantage that we see in continuing with the contracts in which the clause is not clearly established because this way we ensure that the decision to be taken will be the consequence of a decision clearly debated and approved by the Board of Directors”, I consider.
According to De las Fuentes, “it is very beneficial and very interesting” for an entity like Athletic “to always be participants in any decision that may be made in relation to an asset” of the club.
In this regard, he also commented that “The contracts that are signed with a clause are sufficiently well written and perfectly guarantee the capacities that the club will have to retain or if it gets rid of an asset”. “In that sense, the contracts are very well worked,” he added.