PREMIER LEAGUE

SECTION V: PLAYERS – TRANSFERS OF REGISTRATIONS
V.20.
V.21.
The Club’s Options
V.22.
V.23.
V.24.
V.25.
If the Player considers that the terms offered by his Club and set out in Form 30 are less
favourable than those in his current contract, he may give notice to that effect to his Club and
the Secretary in Form 31 and apply for a free transfer.
Such application shall be determined by the Board and if it succeeds:
V.21.1. the Player’s Club will not be entitled to a Compensation Fee upon a Transferee
Club effecting his New Registration; and
V.21.2. the Player will receive severance pay in accordance with his contract.
If a Club makes an offer to a Player on Form 30 and the Player declines it, upon the expiry of
the Player’s contract the Club may either:
V.22.1. enter into a Conditional Contract with the Player in such financial terms as may
be agreed; or
V.22.2. enter into a Week by Week Contract with the Player; or
V.22.3. if neither a Conditional Contract nor a Week by Week Contract has been entered
into or a Week by Week Contract has been determined by the Club, continue to
pay the Player the amount of the basic wage under his expired contract;
and in any such case the Club shall be entitled to a Compensation Fee upon a Transferee Club
effecting the Player’s New Registration provided he then remains under the age of 24 years
and the other conditions set out in Rule V.17 have been satisfied.
The Compensation Fee
V.26.
The financial terms of a Week by Week Contract shall be those contained in the Player’s
expired contract, excluding any Signing-on Fee, except that the Player shall be entitled to
receive such incentives (if any) as are payable by the Club to its Contract Players with effect
from the date of his new contract.
An Out of Contract Player who continues to receive from his Club the amount of his basic
wage under the provisions of Rule V.22.3 shall not be entitled to play for that Club. If such
Out of Contract Player unreasonably refuses an offer of employment by another Club (or
club), his Club may make application to the Premier League Appeals Committee for an order
that payments to the Out of Contract Player may cease without affecting his Club’s
entitlement to a Compensation Fee.
A Club which having continued to pay the Player the amount of his basic wage under Rule
V.22.3 intends to cease making such payments shall give to the Player 2 weeks’ notice to that
effect and upon a Transferee Club effecting the Player’s New Registration the Club shall not
be entitled to a Compensation Fee.
The Compensation Fee payable by a Transferee Club to a Transferor Club upon the transfer of the
registration of a Contract Player to the Transferee Club shall be such sum as shall have been agreed
between the Transferee Club and the Transferor Club and set out in the Transfer Agreement.
PREMIER LEAGUE RULES: SECTION A V
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