Ricky agents meet DKV on Monday for agreement

Ricky Rubio of Representatives are scheduled to meet today with officials from DKV Joventut Badalona of trying to reach agreement in the dispute who have to lower its current clause, valued at 4.7 billion euros, as announced by the player. After he was elected last week to forecast the number of 5 ‘draft’ for Minnesota Timberwolves, the green base has now landed in Barcelona and has declared that it is not playing in another European team than the green next season . “We look at what process to follow, speak with the Youth to see if we reach an agreement,” said the young base, who believes that the lawsuit filed against the club Badalona is an issue that has been exaggerated.

“It has been too so far, is not as serious as people think,” insisted the base who, after the drawing for the ‘draft’ left the door open to return to play another year in the ACB League, as the destination of Minnesota was not among their predilections. In any case, Ricky said that would not involve a step backwards not to play this upcoming season in the NBA. “Far from it, because I am still prepared to make the jump over to the NBA. I think I’m ready, but if I have to get one more year and win in terms of experience, much better,” he explained.

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you can use google translate, just copy url into the google search and to the right of the link is [translate this page] just click that and it automatically translates the webpage

here is a link to the translated page via googe
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After being elected by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the fifth draft, a position that does not give you enough money to pay his salary in his clause with DKV Joventut Ricky Rubio said that there are many opportunities to follow the team in green, with the remaining two years of contract yet, but one that demanded for weeks in their search for ways to jump to the NBA. Jordi Villacampa, the chairman of the Penya, sees it all so complicated at the moment. "The situation has become so clouded that I do not know how to re-pointed yesterday the leader of the entity verdinagra. How can I fix this? What is clear is that you can not talk about anything with a claim against you. Not only is set to ask if the clause is abusive or not, as he says, but it is a demand for social and have a trial date already set. While I have against this very difficult Ricky can play in Penya. I think it’s logical. Nor do we know very well what we do as a club, because we obviously hurt by how it has gone. "
Villacampa made it clear yesterday that the entity does not arise badalonesa lower the clause if the player wants to leave now, either the NBA or another European team. The amount payable is 4.7 million, amounting to 5.7 from this coming Wednesday, July 1, and go down to 4.7 in June of next season. "We want to honor the contract, said the president of DKV Joventut. If he stays a year, well and if two years is perfect. Nothing will happen, is what is signed. But if this year is the clause is unbreakable. And if someone comes and pays all of the then clause will take. "
Villacampa considered green yesterday that the club has been very patient throughout the season. We have not made any statement so as not to further complicate this issue. Ricky’s position throughout this time has been changing. When he returned from Beijing Games said he wanted us to meet the two years of his remaining contract and I said then that he preferred to have the player before the money from its clause. After that I only wanted to meet one and I said okay. and then changed us I wanted to go now. All of this culminated in a press conference in which he announced he was going off and the club and the fans. Before all that he tripled the salary without any consideration. The contract was signed for it to be free to 20 years and would then decide their future. "
For months both sides there was a possibility that Ricky will stay another year, the Penya and down the clause. "I suggested he explained Villacampa, we arrive at a figure that we was going well, they said ’let’s see if we find imaginative ways’, with advertising contracts, parts of an NBA team … Circumstances have totally changed, now we have a complaint about the club and everything is difficult, so we have to do what they want to hear Ricky and their representatives "

i’ve been a long time lurker, but i tought i’ll help you out with this translation (sorry for the spelling, english is after all my second language)

Ricky’s agents will meet this monday with the “penya” (Rubio’s team nickname) to try to reach an ageement

Los representantes de Ricky Rubio tienen previsto reunirse hoy con responsables del
Ricky Rubio agents have a meeting today with the head of DKV Joventut de Badalona in order to try and reach and ageement in the law sue, which claims that the rescission clause, value at 4.7 million euros, according to the player. After last week he was chosen against the predictions at number 5 of the draft by Minesota Timberwolves, the green and black [the colours of Joventut] has landed today in Barcelona and has declared that he doesn’t see himself playing in another team different from the green and black next season. “we’ll see what process we must follow, talk with Joventut to see if we reach and agreement”, the young point guard said, who considers that the law sue against Badalona is an overblown subject.

De nada (you’re welcome)

I am not a lawyer, but I am in law school. I would say that it would difficult to say whether or not the clause (the buyout amount) can be enforced in spain, as I do not know what spanish law is. I know in the US at least in my contracts classes courts really frown on a clause if it is viewed purely as a penalty, ie not a number based in any way shape or form to the value of the contract. It is not against the law to break a contract. You can’t go to jail for it and usually you pay the value of the contract minus the money the other party saves by not completing the contract. In simpler terms the money Ricky brings in minus the money they owe him. The problem here is that there is no way for them to prove thier amount. a 6 million dollar buy out on a 250K thousand dollar contract seems at best obsurd. I think if they took it to court it would get lowered. I suspect that the team will settle to avoid the possibility that the whole clause is negated and they get nothing. the T-wolves should do nothing until they this legal fiasco between ricky and his team is settled. They should be patient. I know that is not the popular thing to say, but I suspect the idea that a player will return to a team he is in court with over not playing with them is a little far fetched. It seems to me that buy taking the course he has (ricky) taken he has limited his options. As for the idea that ricky is upset about a 2 point guard backcourt I will refer to his own words. When directly asked he said that he played in a backcourt with 2 points in his first year in the spanish league. This did not seem to bother him in the least. His words.

And, if I may say so, ruled my contract class, you make the correct points.

In the U.S. we would analogize this to an unenforceable penalty clause. Alternatively, we would argue against it using the theory of no-compete clauses, which U.S. courts will only enforce if they are reasonable to protect the employer, not if they are punitive to the employee. Neither of these are exactly what’s going on in Rubio’s situation, but I would feel comfortable making those arguments. But we don’t have “buyouts” of this type generally. There’s no clause in athlete’s contracts here that let them buy it out and go play elsewhere.

On the other hand, these types of clauses are common in European sports contracts, so it isn’t clear to me what the Spanish law is here.