If this Monday there was a lot of talk about the talks between Gaby Deck and Barcelona, the matter is far from closed or diluted. The Argentine player left Real Madrid in April to the NBA and hopes to continue in the US league, either in his current team, Oklahoma Thunder, or in another to which he can be transferred. Until August 30 there is room for his contract this season to be guaranteed and if they let him free, returning to the Spanish league is his option.
It would be in this scenario when we would have a conflict and more than likely a complaint to be resolved by a judge in court. Mundo Deportivo explained the differences in interpretation between Real Madrid, the ACB and, opposite, Deck and the ABP Players Union.
The white club included Deck on the scoring list to retain his rights in the ACB league despite the fact that the forward paid his termination clause in full in April, leaving Madrid in principle without the option of putting him on trial. The white entity wielded before the claim in June of the player and his agents that this payment of the entire clause was not made simultaneously with the communication of the decision to leave and pay it.
Well, as they explain to us from Argentina and the player’s environment and also sources close to Barcelona, it is actually a technicality that a judge would have to solve. Deck paid 2 million clause in two transfers, one of his own and Oklahoma made the other for what the regulations establish, a maximum of $ 750,000. They were not simultaneous but neither were they separated by days.
This is how clause payments have always been made when there is a franchise involved and everyone understands that the affected player cannot hit a button to pay those $ 750,000 at the same time that he pays his share. They are different banks and different bank accounts. In the end it is a detail.
That is why Deck sees Real Madrid’s scoring incorrect, to be free to sign wherever he wants in case of not having a contract in the NBA and they made the claim when they saw themselves on the scoring list. We will see if the ACB and the ABP manage to clarify it or if it goes to court. If he was free, he would undoubtedly receive more offers in the Euroleague, but Barça is an attractive option for him.
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