FURIA CS:GO\u2019s former contracts \u201camong the worst I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d says lawyer A leading esports lawyer has told Dexerto that FURIA Esports\u2019 CS:GO team had one of the worst contracts he had ever seen before they signed new five-year deals with the organization. CS:GO players Yuri \u2018yuurih\u2019 Santos, Andrei \u2018arT\u2019 Piovezan, Vinicius \u2018VINI\u2019 Figueiredo, Kaike \u2018KSCERATO\u2019 Cerato, and Rinaldo \u2018ableJ\u2019 Moda J\u00fanior recently put pen to paper on a fresh five-year contract after being with the FURIA Esports for over a year. FURIA Esports co-owner Andr\u00e9 Akkari said that it meant better commercials, sponsorships, and merchandise deals for the team. However, following the new contract announcement, Dexerto were sent excerpts from their old contracts (which we\u2019ve been assured by sources are legitimate), and when we sent them to esports lawyer Ryan Fairchild, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s a very poor contract. If their new agreement looks like this, I would feel terrible for them.\u201d The old contract lists a monthly salary of $1,400 USD, which is small when compared to the $200,000 transfer fee according to Fairchild. \u201cBuyouts are harder to opine on as they can incorporate factors beyond salary, but a $200,000 buyout compared to $1,400 in monthly compensation, to me, is ridiculous and oppressive,\u201d he said. He also explained how it may have come to be that the players signed for five years and expressed his concern for a team who were willing to agree to the previous contract in the first place. \u201cWhat I\u2019d like to know is if there was a right of first refusal in the contract, something that allowed FURIA to match offers from other teams, but only perhaps as to salary. The terms of that right of first refusal might shed light on how FURIA was able to lock these players in to a five-year agreement. \u201cI\u2019m really worried about players frankly without knowing more.\u201d However, while Fairchild was concerned about the previous contract, Andr\u00e9 Akkari has explained some of what he sees as the benefits of the new five-year contracts, a length of employment that is unheard of in CS:GO. \u201cHuge buyouts \u2013 it\u2019s not happening,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe buyouts are the same as the old contract, just proportionally adjusted with the bigger salaries and benefits. \u201cBench \u2013 we decided to protect it. If a player goes to a bench we are cutting a huge part of the buyout.\u201d Akkari finished by saying that the players didn\u2019t have to sign such a lengthy contract if they didn\u2019t want to \u201cThe five years, of course, was not mandatory, we discussed it all together. Could be three years or two, but we \u2013 players and orgs \u2013 felt that we could lose some opportunities that are coming with a longer contract, nothing more than that.\u201d Dexerto has reached out to FURIA for a comment and will update this story with their response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FURIA CS:GO\u2019s former contracts \u201camong the worst I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d says lawyer A leading esports lawyer has told Dexerto that FURIA Esports\u2019 CS:GO team had one of the worst contracts he had ever seen before they signed new five-year deals with the organization. CS:GO players Yuri \u2018yuurih\u2019 Santos, Andrei \u2018arT\u2019 Piovezan, Vinicius \u2018VINI\u2019 Figueiredo, Kaike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}