In 1990 which footballer wished to move from R.F.C. Liege to U.S.L. Dunkerque after his Belgian contract expired - the move falling through because Liege wanted a transfer fee?
"Jean-Marc Bosman. Bosman was a midfielder who joined Standard Liege in 1983. After failing to establish himself there and RFC Liege his contract expired in 1990. Dunkerque wanted to sign him but would not meet RFCL's fee, the Belgian club then cut Bosman's pay by 75%. Bosman's lawyers including Jean-Louis Dupont sued club, Belgian FA and UEFA for restraint of trade and in December 1995 the EU court said out-of-contract players can move on free transfers and banned limits on number of foreign EU players under the EU Restraint of Trade law. Although Bosman's victory was pyrrhic ending in alcoholism"
"looking to move to French team Dunkerque, but Dunkerque refused to pay the transfer fee of £500,000 that Liège were asking for. Bosman was left in limbo and his wages were cut by 75% due to him not playing. After a lengthy legal battle, Bosman won his case on 15 December 1995 when the European Court of Justice ruled players should legally be free to move when their contract expired. The first high-profile ""Bosman transfer"" was Edgar Davids, who departed Ajax for Milan, but lasted just one year in Milan before moving to rivals Juventus for a fee of over"
"football transfer market. Bosman's contract with Belgian side RFC Liège had expired and he wanted to join French team Dunkirk, but the French side refused to pay the transfer fee that Liège were demanding. Bosman was forced to stay at Liège, who cut his wages by 75% due to him not playing. After a five-year legal battle, Bosman won his case on 15 December 1995 when the European Court of Justice ruled that players should legally be free to move when their contract expired. The ruling also allowed clubs to play as many non-indigenous players as they wanted. Improvements in"
"along with teammates Chris McCart, Brian Martin and Paul Lambert. However, Motherwell could not afford the wages to keep the players, and McKinnon and Lambert decided to move to continental clubs on a free transfer when their contracts expired in summer 1996 under the recently implemented Bosman ruling. Lambert signed for Borussia Dortmund, and McKinnon made the move to Dutch football, joining FC Twente. McKinnon played regularly with Twente in the Eredivisie for two seasons – in the first, the team finished third and qualified for the following year's UEFA Cup. He returned to Scotland with Hearts on another free"
"Kanouté with the money. The 2000–01 season was Redknapp's final year. They got off to a dismal start, hampered by further injuries (Sinclair notably, but also Ian Pearce continued absence), a number of failed loan transfers (Christian Bassila and Kaba Diawara) and unimpressive signings (Davor Šuker, reportedly on £50,000-a -week wages who only managed eight starts, Ragnvald Soma and the continued absence of Margas, who had turned up for half of the previous season). With the team in the doldrums, the board eventually accepted a bid for the team's prized asset – Rio Ferdinand – in an £18 million move"
"to quit football. Ducrocq played for the France national under-16 football team at the 1993 UEFA European Under-16 Championship. Pierre Ducrocq Pierre Ducrocq (born December 18, 1976) is a former French footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. Born in Pontoise, Ducrocq started his career at Paris Saint-Germain, progressing through the youth ranks and making his debut in the 1994-95 season. He was loaned to Stade Lavallois during the 1996–97 season, later becoming a regular for the first team after returning. He was loaned to Derby County in October 2001, with a view to a permanent deal. However, the"
"The club was bought by Egyptian businessman Maged Samy, who also owns KV Turnhout and Wadi Degla in Egypt. The most capped player at the club is Bernard Voorhoof with 61 caps for Belgium, all when he was at Lierse. With 30 goals, he was the topscorer of the Belgium national football team together with Paul Van Himst, until Romelu Lukaku (who played in Lierse's youth squads) surpassed this record. On May 9th, 2018 the team announced that it requested bankruptcy. After the bankruptcy of the team negotiations started with Lyra and Oosterzonen. Eventually two teams with the name Lierse"
"go and he submitted a transfer request to this effect. I have already made my opinion clear on the nature of this transaction. I don't regard it as a transfer deal – that is something which happens between two clubs when they both agree to trade – this is very much an enforced sale, for which we have agreed a sum of £19m as compensation plus a potential further £1.3m in additional compensation."" On 30 July 2008, French midfielder Steed Malbranque became the third player in a week to leave, following Tainio and Chimbonda to Sunderland for a fee of"
"Pierre Ducrocq Pierre Ducrocq (born December 18, 1976) is a former French footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. Born in Pontoise, Ducrocq started his career at Paris Saint-Germain, progressing through the youth ranks and making his debut in the 1994-95 season. He was loaned to Stade Lavallois during the 1996–97 season, later becoming a regular for the first team after returning. He was loaned to Derby County in October 2001, with a view to a permanent deal. However, the club would not be able to purchase the player after being relegated from the Premier League and Ducrocq returned"
"Following the departure of Pollet in February 2012, Huysman was re-appointed as manager. Nicolas Huysman Nicolas Huysman (born 9 February 1968) is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently the manager of Championnat de France amateur side USL Dunkerque. Huysman started his career with Dunkerque in 1984 and spent six seasons with the club before transferring to Ligue 1 side Metz. He went on to play for Caen, Le Havre and Créteil before returning to Dunkerque at the end of his career. Huysman was appointed manager of Dunkerque in 2002 and held the"
"Dutch Eredivisie. On 13 May 2016, he left the team after it was relegated from Eredivisie to Eerste Divisie. On 14 July 2016, he signed with the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer (MLS). On 7 August 2018, it was announced that he had transferred within MLS to D.C. United in exchange for $50,000 of Targeted Allocation Money. He was released by D.C. United at the end of the 2018 season. He is a part of the Lithuania national football team. Vytautas Andriuškevičius Vytautas Andriuškevičius (born 8 October 1990), commonly known as Vytas, is a Lithuanian footballer who plays as"
"ready to work within the rules but I hope UEFA are going to change it next year because a lot of clubs have complained. I hope a solution can be found."" PSG admitted that the FFP rules had forced them to abandon moves to sign Argentine winger Ángel Di María because they would have had to sell someone else first, and the player eventually went to Manchester United for a British record fee of £59.7 million. PSG limited their summer recruitment to buying Chelsea's Brazilian defender David Luiz for £49.5 million. But coming soon after the fine, the move was"
"move, ""You are never happy to lose a player of his calibre but it is a good deal for him and for the club."" Middlesbrough intended to sign David Platt, but a move never came to fruition, as talks broke down between both parties. Defender Matthew Rose and goalkeeper Lee Harper joined Queens Park Rangers for a combined fee of £750,000. Arriving first during the summer was English defender Matthew Upson from Luton Town. French midfielders Emmanuel Petit and Gilles Grimandi joined from Monaco, where they were protégées to Wenger. Marc Overmars, a midfielder from Ajax, was recruited in a"
"players. The change in ruling opened the door for a number of foreign internationals, and at the same time had seen a great number of established players within the team being shown the door; Hutchison, Burrows, Morley, Marsh, Holmes, Boere and Gordon were all released or sold on. The following summer, going into the historic 1996–97 season, Redknapp continued looking abroad and made two of the most ambitious but perhaps least productive signings in the club's history – the Romanian national team's striker Florin Răducioiu and Portuguese winger Paulo Futre (formerly a £10 million man) from Milan. The deals failed"
"he played at Sporting Lokeren. On 23 October 2009, he was suspended by the team management, after a paper interview in which he accused the team management to be unprofessional. he had a contract in Lokeren until 2011, but this was terminated at the end of December 2010 after an injury. In his entire career, he was a two-times Red Devil. January 2006, Dupré was selected in Humo's Gouden Stud (election of the most sexy soccer player in First Division). He finished second, after Jamaique Vandamme. Frédéric Dupré Frédéric Dupré (born 12 May 1979) is a Belgian football defender who"
"Vitesse signed Due for a fee of 10 million DKK in July 2006. During the beginning of his second season Junker lost his first team spot to Anduele Pryor. Junker, not happy with the situation, spoke to the media about the possibility of leaving the club. During the winter transfer window, Junker was about to sign with FC Utrecht, but Vitesse cancelled the deal on the last day of the transfer window, as the club feared playing with only three strikers for the rest of the season. After the end of the 2006/2007 season FC Utrecht were reportedly still interested,"
"a player under the age of 23 leaves a club at the end of his contract, his new club must pay a fee to his old club as compensation for having trained him up). Belgian club Standard Liège also expressed interest in Fryers, and as they are not an English club, they did not have to pay Manchester United the same level of compensation. Fryers signed a two-year contract with Liège on 23 August 2012. Fryers played in seven matches for Standard, but with the sacking of Ron Jans in November, he was left out of the squad and ultimately"
"equal treatment of workers. First, articles 1 to 4 generally require that workers can take up employment, conclude contracts, and not suffer discrimination compared to nationals of the member state. In a famous case, the ""Belgian Football Association v Bosman"", a Belgian footballer named Jean-Marc Bosman claimed that he should be able to transfer from R.F.C. de Liège to USL Dunkerque when his contract finished, regardless of whether Dunkerque could afford to pay Liège the habitual transfer fees. The Court of Justice held ""the transfer rules constitute[d] an obstacle to free movement"" and were unlawful unless they could be justified"
"from Chievo, for an undisclosed fee. On 30 October he scored his first goal with the club in a 2-0 home League game against Iraklis. On 3 July 2017, M’Poku decided to leave Panathinaikos as he agreed to return to his former club of Standard Liege. According to various sources, the Belgian Club moved to sign the Congolese winger, by putting on the table a bid of €1.5 million. M’Poku under-went medical examinations before signing a five year contract. On 17 March 2018 he played as Standard Liege beat Genk 1-0 in extra time to win the 2018 Belgian Cup"
"bottom place. A further £2.5million went to the East Midlanders for England defender Mark Wright. An outlay of £1.25million also went on midfielder Mark Walters, who followed Souness to Anfield from Rangers. Just weeks before his resignation, Dalglish invested for the future with a move for 17-year-old AFC Bournemouth midfielder Jamie Redknapp, while fellow teenage midfielder Steve McManaman made his first two senior appearances during the season. He also gave a senior debut to 18-year-old winger Steve McManaman just before Christmas. Liverpool's defence of their record 18th top division league title began on 25 August 1990 at Bramall Lane, where"
"to his former club ADO Den Haag. He signed a two-year deal on a free transfer. On 5 September 2011, he received his first call up to the senior Belgium national team for the friendly match against the United States. Coach Georges Leekens called him to replace the injured Jan Vertonghen. However, he was an unused substitute in a 1–1 draw. Timothy Derijck Timothy Derijck (born 25 May 1987) is a Belgian footballer. He currently plays as a centre back in the Jupiler Pro League for Zulte Waregem. Derijck is a product of the Anderlecht youth academy, but left the"
"2012. He returned to manage Brest in 2013. At the end of the 2015-2016, his expiring contract with the Ligue 2 side was not renewed. Alex Dupont Alex Dupont (born 30 May 1954) is a former French footballer and football manager. Dupont played as a midfielder for Dunkerque and Hazebrouck. He coached Dunkerque, Charleville, Boulogne, Gueugnon, with whom he won the Coupe de la Ligue in 2000, Sedan, Laval, Amiens. He managed Brest since 2009, when he took over Gérald Baticle, On 26 April 2012, French top-flight strugglers Brest have sacked him, just five games before the end of the"
"£1.2million. 4 July 1990 - England's World Cup hopes are ended in a semi-final defeat by West Germany, with Chris Waddle and Stuart Pearce both missing penalties. 16 July 1990 - Graham Taylor, manager of Aston Villa, is appointed as successor to Bobby Robson as the England manager. 18 July 1990 - Derby County sign defender Paul Blades from Norwich City for £700,000. 19 July 1990 - England striker Mark Hateley ends six years overseas and joins Scottish league champions Rangers in a £1million move from AS Monaco. He had played on the continent since his move from Portsmouth to"
"winning goal against league rivals Manchester United which set his team on their way to securing the Premier League title and opened the scoring against Newcastle United in the 1998 FA Cup Final. In 2000, he moved to Barcelona in a deal worth £25 million and became the most expensive player in Dutch football history. The club failed to win silverware during his stay and numerous managerial changes made him a peripheral player. A persistent knee injury prompted Overmars to announce his retirement in 2004, but he reversed his decision in 2008 and went on to play one season for"
"Frédéric Frans Frédéric Frans (born 3 January 1989) is a Belgian professional football player who plays as a defender for Dundee United. Frans started his career at Lierse, where he spent eight years until his move to Scottish Premiership side Partick Thistle in 2014. After two years at the Glasgow club, Frans returned to Lierse in June 2016. He then returned to Scottish football in 2018, signing for Dundee United. Frans has also represented Belgium at youth level. Frans first joined Lierse at age six when he was spotted by Lierse's scout whilst playing for Olympia Wespelaar. Frans had progress"
"did not improve under Houllier and early exits in the UEFA and FA Cup were followed by the club finishing the season in seventh place, missing the qualification spots for European competition. Houllier reshaped the squad at the start of the 1999–2000 season. New players were brought into the squad such as Dietmar Hamann, Sami Hyypiä and Sander Westerveld; David James, Ince and McManaman left the club. Houllier continued the reshaping into the season when he signed forward Emile Heskey for a club record £11 million in March. Liverpool failed to secure a return to the UEFA Champions League, as"
"last season. On 6 June 2009, it was announced by Lyon that fitness coach Robert Duverne had quit his position to focus full-time on the French national team, who were attempting to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Vincent Espié, who had previously worked as fitness coach for Claude Puel's former club Lille, was brought in as his replacement. Departures this summer include long time Lyonnais Juninho, who, after spending a respectable eight seasons at the club, moved to Qatari club Al-Gharafa. Defender Sandy Paillot joined fellow Ligue 1 club Grenoble for a fee of €2 million after spending almost"
"scoring goals to thank God, and also prays frequently. He has a younger brother, Jonathan, who is also a footballer. Benteke's goal celebration features him beating his chest. The celebration appears in EA Sports’ video game ""FIFA 18"". Standard Liège Christian Benteke Christian Benteke Liolo (born 3 December 1990) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for English club Crystal Palace and the Belgium national team. He began his career at Standard Liège, playing a part in their 2008–09 Belgian First Division triumph. Following a season at Genk he was signed for £7 million by Aston Villa."
"contracts to leave their employers before the end of the stipulated term, but Ajax did not express a renewed interest in his services and he ended up signing for Standard Liège for a much-reduced transfer fee, effectively breaking a gentlemen's agreement between Belgian sides not to sign under-contract players using the aforementioned law. Defour joined Standard on a five-year deal, being appointed team captain at the start of his second year after taking over from Portugal's Sérgio Conceição – he was just 19 years old. He received the Belgian Golden Shoe at the end of the season in the process,"
"field. He was a two-footed player and an expert at free kicks. After receiving offers from A.S. Roma and A.C. Milan, moving to Italy seemed right and a four-million dollar proposal from Udinese was on the table. Such an amount of money made bigger clubs pressure the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) that blocked the transfer expecting financial guarantees. This caused a commotion in Udine as enraged Friulians flocked to the streets in protest against the Italian federation and the federal government. Historical reasons would make them shout """"O Zico, o Austria!"""" (""Either Zico or Austria""). At the end of the"
"the club announced the departure of striker Frédéric Piquionne, who joined English club Portsmouth on loan for the entire season. One week later, various sources in France reported that defender John Mensah would be joining English club Sunderland on loan for the season, with the club also having an option to purchase the player for a fee of €7 million following the season. The move was subject to Mensah passing a medical and being granted a work permit, which was completed a week-and-a-half later. On 7 July, Lyon confirmed their first transfer arrival to the club. After almost two weeks"
"second round of the EFL Cup away to Sheffield Wednesday (2–0 victory), with coach Nuno Espírito Santo making nine changes from the previous game. In late September, The Football Association rejected the obligatory purchase clause in Dendoncker's Wolves contract and made his deal became permanent for €15 million. Dendoncker was first called up for the Belgium national football team on 22 May 2015 by manager Marc Wilmots, along with his Anderlecht teammate Youri Tielemans. He made his debut on 7 June in a friendly game away to France, replacing Jason Denayer for the final five minutes of a 4–3 win."
"Flyers made the following players available: goaltenders Les Kuntar and Dominic Roussel, defensemen Frank Bialowas, Jason Bowen, Aris Brimanis, Darren Rumble, and John Stevens, and forwards Bruce Coles, Bob Corkum, Craig Darby, Rob DiMaio, Yanick Dupre, Tony Horacek, Patrik Juhlin, Steven King, Trent Klatt, Shawn McCosh, Clayton Norris, and Peter White. The Flyers were involved in the following waivers transactions. The following players left the team via free agency, release, or retirement. Players who were under contract and left the team during the season are marked with an asterisk (*). Philadelphia's picks at the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, which was"