Keine Einigung möglich?! Chargers und Joey Bosa scheinen am Ende der Verhandlungen

Die San Diego Chargers stehen kurz davor ihren Top-Draft-Pick zu verlieren. Joey Bosa hat seinen Vertrag noch immer nicht unterschrieben – nun hat das Team das jüngste Angebot zurückgezogen.

Die Chargers haben Bosa am Mittwoch klar gemacht, dass das neueste Angebot das bestmögliche Angebot seitens des Teams sei. Doch Bosa hat dieses umgehend abgelehnt. Als Reaktion darauf zogen die Chargers ihr Angebot zurück.

Die Chargers zeigten sich angesichts der gescheiterten Verhandlungen schwer enttäuscht. Der Chargers President of Football Operations John Spanos ließ kein gutes Haar am Verhandlerteam Bosa’s.

He would have gotten more cash in this calendar year than anyone except Carson Wentz. […] I’m highly, highly disappointed in the path we’ve had to take, […] It’s so overly clear we had no choice. It would have been more difficult if I felt they were being reasonable. But when you’re dealing with someone who isn’t reasonable, it makes it easy.

Spanos machte auch klar, dass die Chargers den letzten Deal keinesfalls nachbessern werden.

The deal is not going to improve as time goes on. […] A player, especially a rookie, who misses all of the preseason games, he’s not going to be able to contribute the (same) way as a player who was present the entire time and participating. So why give the same offer to someone who missed all of the preseason?

Was passiert wenn Bosa nicht unterschreibt?

Die Trade-Deadline für Bosa ist bereits verstrichen, somit bleiben nur zwei Möglichkeiten:

1. Der Defensive End kann bis zum 15. November  einen Vertrag in San Diego unterschreiben.
2. Tut er dies nicht, könnte er anschließend in der 2016er Saison nicht mehr zum Einsatz kommen und hätte die Option, 2017 erneut in den Draft zu gehen.

Seitens Bosa’s Camp weist man sämtliche Vorwürfe zurück und verlautbarte das folgende Statement:

It is unfortunate the San Diego Chargers have decided to manipulate facts and negotiate in the media. The team surely is not strengthening its relationship with Joey Bosa by taking this stance and making their position public.

We have decided that we will not engage in public negotiations or discuss numbers and/or terms in this negotiation.

We will say, that it is ironic that the team now takes issue with the timing of Joey’s arrival, since the Chargers unilaterally decided to remain silent for the first 14 days of training camp instead of replying in a timely fashion to the proposal we made on the eve of training camp on July 28th.

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At this point, all we can do is continue to fight for a fair contract on behalf of our client, as we do for all of our clients. The Chargers can focus on trying to sway public opinion, but our focus will remain on our client and securing a contract for him that is fair and consistent with his draft position.