Reggie Cannon’s one year at Queens Park Rangers has come to a frustrating ending.
Cannon departed the English Football League Championship side by mutual consent on Friday, the club announced The 26-year-old originally joined QPR last summer as a free agent signing after leaving Portuguese side Boavista.
He proceeded to make 21 combined appearances for QPR over that time, logging over 1,400 minutes of playing time.
Cannon’s name was in the media this summer after being ordered to pay Boavista approximately $1.4 million for leaving the club unlawfully before the conclusion of his contract, FIFA announced earlier this month, transcribed by O Jogo.
He had left the club in June 2023 due to reported unpaid wages, but a lengthy court case ruled in favor of Boavista. QPR was reportedly set to complete the compensation payment of $71,000.
As part of the ruling, Boavista was also ruled to pay Cannon $85,226 in unpaid wages, plus 5% interest.
A U.S. men’s national team debutant in 2018, Cannon hasn’t featured for the USMNT since a 2-0 friendly loss to Japan in September 2022.
Following the closure of the summer transfer window in many of Europe’s top leagues on Friday, Cannon could sign as a free agent in the coming weeks.
Boavista are technically within their rights. The lack of payment was within what the courts consider an acceptable time. Reggie seems like an intelligent, yet naively outspoken and limited suburban kid TBH. A lot of poor statements and poor decisions quite frankly throughout his career.
I have lived and worked half of my life throughout Western Europe. The ridiculous way Americans are taught to laud and admire it just plain dumb. Politics at its worst painitng a fantasy pictureTBH. Facts and realty are much different.
Whaaaaaaaaat!
I can not decipher this.
In the US a company generally gets a “cure” period – generally 72 hours, but almost never long than one week – before they’re considered in breach and the contract is nullified.
I very much doubt Boavista was making good that fast, or why would he have left? The other thing is, the fact that they still owed him salary money after a lengthy court battle tells you they were a mile over that.
A good tax or contracts lawyer in the US could likely beat this judgment like a rented mule. Reggie almost certainly needs to keep fighting.
I hope it works out for him. In the US, I suspect, he’d have a lot more joy challenging an absurd Portuguese court ruling where he was somehow being bound by his contract despite Boavista being in clear breach. The fact that the Portuguese court also ordered Boavista to pay the $85,226 dollars they were delinquent in his salary means it’s already been legally established Boavista wasn’t paying the man.
There is very little chance, IMHO, that an American court would find in favor of Boavista given those circumstances, so I very much doubt Boavista will ever be able to collect that money – and they shouldn’t! – but man, it’s gotta be an enormous headache for the guy.