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I hope Theo gets a game tonight and performs well. Either boosts his confidence for playing with us or gives a wee bit more bargaining power.

Yes, Shane Blaney might have been an example for us. Signed in December but registered in January. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2022/12/19/irish-defender-blaney-signs/

If that happens then expect PSG to bid £10,000,000 for him as Mbappes replacement. Yes I am not fully awake yet......🤪🤪

If a player is out of contract, he can surely sign for another team at any time. But for that player to be allowed to play immediately upon signing, he had to have been out of contract before the previous window closed. Otherwise he must wait until the next window opens before he can play. Out of contract players have been signing for Clubs since season end have they not? Window or no window. But not playing obviously. I guess teams sign them up early to avoid players going elsewhere and players will be happy to sign so as to avoid wage gaps. I suppose that also covers existing squad members whose contracts have expired. Like SOD, McGinn. That’s the way I understand it anyway

Mbappe will play against the goat Theo Bair tonight Imagine a hatrick for Theo tonight

It sounds a bit complicated to me Ropy. Does that mean that a player can sign for another club, be employed by it and be paid by it, but can't actually play for it until the window opens?

I suspect he signed the extension a while ago and not just as a parting ‘gift’. If he had been out of contract at the end of May he could sign for Rangers immediately, no 2 week gap. The window is a period for registration, not for employment.

Brick shithouse??? Noway! The guy is tall & has lean muscle. Kipre is a brick shithouse!

Considering what we've been paying him, and what Rangers will likely be paying him, I'm sure he'd have managed during those tough two weeks without pay. Maybe a payday loan to cover him until that first Rangers wage hits the bank?

If he’s out of contract, he can sign for whoever he wants at anytime, surely? Liam has done us a real favour here, there’s nothing else to it.

Ah, My mistake apologies. Bloody window! As you say, he could have signed for somebody next Friday before the Euros kicked off and guaranteed his new employers a tidy sum. And no doubt himself a wee bonus for going without for that couple of weeks. Let's hope we get out the group and earn Motherwell a bit more. I still think the Fifa scheme of rewarding Clubs for the 24 months leading up to the World Cup is fairer, and does away with the need for these contrived short term contracts.

Yes credit to him. He could simply have left us. However he couldn't sign for Rangers until next Friday when the window opens. That would have been 2 weeks without pay. I don't know which, if any, club would have been entitled to a UEFA payment until that date. He'll still get a signing on fee from them. We should be grateful to him though. As I say the arrangements benefit us and him.

Or he could have just signed for Rangers (or somebody else last week), received a signing on fee/salary and let his new Club collect the £100k+ Uefa payment. So yes, win win. But he deserves credit for making sure Motherwell do not miss out.

By signing on for an extra month, he'll earn 4 weeks or so of wages, he wouldn't have otherwise received plus, I suspect, a slice of the UEFA payment. A win win situation.

Well done to Kelly for that!

This From Uefa site explains why Kelly did the decent thing and signed on for a month. The note at the end explains the difference between Fifa and Uefa when it comes to club payments for players represented in National squads. Fifa go back two years contract wise but Uefa only 10 days. Quite a difference. Well done him. Clubs Will Also Earn from the National Team Tournament UEFA and FIFA have mechanisms to reward federations and clubs — organizations pay teams for players' participation in their tournaments. This mechanism, called the "club payments program," is not related to ensuring players from injuries (for this, FIFA has a separate structure). The solidarity program, created in cooperation with the European Club Association (ECA), rewards teams for nurturing players. At EURO 2024, teams, including those outside of Europe, will receive €140 million from UEFA, €10 million more than four years ago. UEFA still needs to determine the amount that will be distributed among clubs. Still, the payout scheme remains unchanged from that of EURO 2020. It will work as follows: each club will receive a certain amount from UEFA for each day a player is in the national team; calculations start 10 days before the first national team match in the championship; once the national team is eliminated from the tournament, the calculation of payments stops; after that, all payments for each player are summed up, and UEFA transfers the money. An important point: according to the ECA, payments are due to clubs for which the player was registered 10 days before the start of his team at EURO (relevant release period). For comparison, in FIFA's loyalty program at the 2022 World Cup, all clubs in which he was listed for the last two seasons received payments for one player.

Kelly has signed a short term contract so we get the money for him being at the Euros. Nice one!

Confirmed on BBC that Kelly signed a short contract extension so we could get a bonus. What a great gesture and speaks volumes for him. Guaranteed if he is at Fir Park next season for opposition there will still be folk booing him seeing the way we seem to treat ex motherwell player's That money he has earned us is massive so he deserves a lot of praise

Bevis gave 100% every game and came across as a really good guy to have around the club. A very likeable guy who's built like an absolutely brick s&*t house. His situational awareness for me was the issue. He wasn't always aware of what went on around him, opposition able to drift behind him with relative ease. Thus his timing was often off, which simply cost us goals an all too often basis. To be fair had be been consistent he'd have left the club 3 years earlier akin to likes of Kipre. Good luck to the big man.

It's in the link on the story on Facebook and twitter. It doesn't say.

There's an post on Facebook that confirms he has. No idea how much we get or how it'll be split. Edit: it's on the official site too

How do we know that Liam Kelly has signed on until after the Euros? I've seen references to this but can't find the official source. How much is it worth? Presumably we'll split any monies received with Kelly himself.

Yeah. Glad to see he's signed on till after the euros so we can get some cash.

Reports of Kelly's Motherwell demise were slightly premature, then.

I think he's had more than most to be fair. I do hope he does well though