Hi,
As some of you may know Harry Kewell is up here this week, he was at the AFL Gold Coast game yesterday.

He’s NOT attending the Socceroos game tonight, but IS attending Origin 1 on Wednesday night as a guest of Jeep Australia.

My spies close to the action (very close) have revealed the following:

-   Kewell’s Victory contract was unworkable, Harry ended up PAYING the Victory to play for them, that’s why Bernie Mandic was sacked by him late in 2011 (notice that Bernie has disappeared from the scene since…)
-   Victory offered Kewell $1.2M per year, for the remainder 2 years of his 3 year deal (in effect to put him on ‘wages’), the family issue with Mrs Kewell’s Mum in the UK scuppered that though.
-   There ‘may’, repeat ‘may’ be some bad blood b/w Ange & Harry, which is why Harry isn’t in Sydney today. I stress ‘may’ be bad blood.

Fark you come up with some hilarious shit :lol:

-PB

My love for you is mutual too mate! :cool:

None of this news would surprise me in the least. Everyone knew Harry's contract was pretty crazy and hinged largely around sponsorship, etc (hence why he may have had to pay victory to pay, but probably got paid a lot in sponsorship I'd imagine).

The first time I heard as a serious rumour of Kewell coming back to the HAL was the Jerks chased him down, using Michael Bridges as negotiator. It became quite clear to the Jerks early on that all those crazy contracts and deals Kewell & Mandic were after was not as siple a deal as the Jerks wanted, so the Jerks pulled out. That was when Victory came in with interest.

So why did Harry have to pay to play?

Has Harry also been in touch with Sepp Blatter?


Edited by jlm8695: 26/5/2014 03:12:18 PM

Quality rumour imo

Whatever your smoking I want some .

Not absolutely out of the question.
Harry is so ridiculously private and professional n these sorts of things that I doubt he'll ever spill much about what happened.

I'd be interested to know the legalities behind such rumours. Unless I'm completely mislead there is a min wage. How could he end up paying to play? Unless his contract had some strange pay back clause...

FTR Bernie Mandic is still a player agent, last I recall (Recently) he still had a number of clients, notably/sadly Matthew Spiranovic being one of them. May that explain some of Spiranovic's own odd moves?

Good point. Although I'm sure Kewell's rumoured mega-contract worked a way around that clause.