League 1 General Chat Thread

[EnglishRed]

Some pretty saddening stuff in The Athletic regarding Mo Faal (no, the other one) and his treatment by Crawley Town this summer.

Subscription required, but basically: Falsely told him that he'd failed his medical, the League seemed his contract invalid but the club refused to renegotiate, then they announced he'd signed for another club when he hadn't.

It sounds like a complete mess. That Tobias Phoenix bloke sounds a bit shady too

 

[Master D]

Which Mo Faal? I'm not convinced there's even 1 of them never mind 2.

 

[EnglishRed]

They are multiplying, like Danny Roses

 

[Throbber_for_Dunk]

There'll be Mo Faal-Peters along next.

 

[Super_horns]

Best wishes to Matt Taylor and his family at this tough time .

https://twitter.com/x/status/1862089056697393659

 

[Casey]

Which Mo Faal? I'm not convinced there's even 1 of them never mind 2.

Brazenly stolen from Crawley forum.

However, on August 12, one day before that cup match against Swindon Town, Faal was told by Lindsey that there had been a further setback. He did not go into details but the problem was that the contract which Faal had signed was for six months, with an 18-month extension option. Under EFL rules, an extension is not allowed to be longer than the initial contracted period. The issue meant Faal could not be registered."

“The manager told me it was something which the club needed to amend and change so they could get me playing, but he said I wouldn’t be registered for the game the next day. I instantly became worried because of what happened previously — I assumed the worst was going to happen.” Faal says he was affected by the update — and didn’t perform up to his usual level in training that day, misplacing passes and missing shots. He says the sight of Phoenix, who was watching the session, only added to that anxiety. Faal had paid the holding deposit on his dream home less than 48 hours before.

Faal says that the next day “I received an early morning call from Tobias. He told me what the situation was. I said, ‘OK, no problem. Can we change the deal?’ I thought we could make it six months plus six months or something like that. He told me, ‘No, the club doesn’t want to do that. This is the only deal the club wants to offer you. The decision is final’. “There was no other explanation. He told me that the club would pay me for the weeks that I had been in, but that was it, and I was free to find a new club.”

The Atlantic continues - He lost his deposit on the house, but bigger things were also at play. He was now jobless, with his mental health receiving a battering... In Faal’s mind, after signing that contract with Crawley, he has terms of employment with them — with it being the club’s fault that he cannot be registered, after they refused to negotiate on the extension length. According to Faal and his lawyer, his registration was not a key condition of the contract.

Faal says he was sent a 'proof of termination of contract' document to sign, which he has refused to do.

The Atlantic says - When announcing his departure, on September 13, Crawley said Faal had joined Worthing for an “undisclosed fee”. But they would have been unable to receive money for him as an unregistered player — and is instead classed as a free transfer.

I have no idea if Faal is good, bad or indifferent but Crawley come out of this like a bunch of w&£#£&+s

Casey

 

[masi51]

It sounds like a complete mess. That Tobias Phoenix bloke sounds a bit shady too

That is a blast from the past......He was DOF at Macclesfield before joining us in the same role
it was when we was in Administration, got shot of him the following season
Or Evatt did

 

[masi51]

That is a blast from the past......He was DOF at Macclesfield before joining us in the same role
it was when we was in Administration, got shot of him the following season
Or Evatt did

funny enough we signed Faal around that time,,,,And also let him go around the time hewent