Keegan wins “constructive dismissal”against Newcastle United.
October 9th, 2009
In the UK former manager of Newcastle United Kevin Keegan recently was awarded £2m compensation after an independent arbitration panel found that he was constructively dismissed in September 2008.
The panel declared that managers had the right to have the final say on the signing of players. In this case handing that role to the clubs director of football Denis Wise amounted to constructive dismissal.
The former manager was coerced into signing a South American player he had never seen play by Wise, as a favour to an agent. Keegan stated that he “has found it and will continue to find it difficult,if not impossible to obtain work as a top-flight manager.”
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