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Simon Jordan believes Brentford are effectively inside their rights to not pay Ivan Toney’s wages in the course of the striker’s eight-month ban for betting offenses.
The talkSPORT host stated: “With respect to Ivan, there are different victims in this equation, like Brentford, who’ve completed nothing incorrect that now have a participant who might be costing them £70,000-a-week on a contract at a key time in each his improvement and with solely a sure time left on his contract.
“Brentford now have a call to make whether or not they’re legally obliged or morally obliged to proceed paying his contract over this eight-month interval.”
Asked if he would pay him, the previous Crystal Palace proprietor stated: “It’s a dialog I’d have with the participant. I might say to him, ‘Listen, I’m fairly positive I’ve the flexibility to not pay you for this since you’ve introduced the membership into disrepute and also you’re not accessible to do your job – subsequently, that certainly doesn’t imply I ought to need to pay you’.
“But right here’s flipside of that argument – then you’ve a participant who doesn’t really feel the way in which he ought to in direction of the membership, despite the fact that he’s the one who has created this case.
“So I’d be saving to Ivan, ‘Am I going to be paying you, only for you to come back in January and want a big move out of the door because some of the big six clubs will be interested in you? Or are we going to be paying you because you and I are going to talk about a new contract that protects my position with you?’
“But you additionally need to do not forget that Ivan Toney has made a giant contribution to that soccer membership the place his performances and his targets have put them the place they’re, even with this hanging over him.
“Ivan has harm himself and he’s harm his soccer membership and the largest sufferer of this case will finally be Brentford, as a result of they may now lose arguably their finest participant for half of the season, which might have knock-on results.
“And the irony of it’s the participant might come again and all of the sudden decides he needs to depart, after which Brentford get the advantage of bleedin’ nothing in addition to the switch payment!”
