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With the start of the new season less than a month away now fans will be getting themselves set for another great, terrible or mediocre season with their clubs. No matter what happens in the coming season it is a fact that at least a few managers heads will role before Christmas and who can honestly say that it is always the right choice by the club.
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Over the past decade or so the balance of power has been shifting from club to player. It would seem quite unreal that only 50 years ago players were on a maximum pay structure of £7 a week. Now the average income of a Premiership player is over £676,000, with the likes of John Terry and Steven Gerrard paid in the region of £120,000 a week. When in 1990 Jean Marc Bosman took his club FC Liege to court over being released from his contract and won finally in 1995 it sent shock waves throughout the footballing world and has had serious repercussions since. Now FIFA and the EU have deployed new laws that give players even more power to leave their respective clubs, with players no being allowed to pay their final two years of their contract to be able to leave the club and also allowed to rescind their contract if the club refuses to play them and leave them in the stands.
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