Pearce has no contract!

Man City boss, Stuart Pearce, has announced that he is working without a contract, "There is a contract there, but it's not signed," said Pearce. "Bits of paper don't really mean a great deal to me...In some ways a contract wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on because of the clauses I have asked to go in there."

Now admittedly it seems to be that it's just the way he likes to work, "If at some point in the future this club don't want me to be their manager, I'm not going to argue with them about giving me a pay-off for this or that. I wouldn't want their money.

"Likewise, if I am to leave this football club anywhere down the line for whatever reason, I don't feel that, having walked through the door for nothing five years ago, it should be the case that the club say we want £1 million or £2million for him and handcuff me. If it works one way, it has got to work both ways."

It's an interesting way to work (and probably a more down-to-earth, head-to-the-grindstone kind of attitude), but what would he do if his player's followed his lead. Surely, Joey Barton for one would have been long gone during the January transfer window!?

Two points of interest though are: 1. that Pearce obviously feels like contracts are just "handcuffs" to him (I wonder if this is some hangover from when he was a player), and 2. what kind of clauses does he have that would make his contract useless and why were Man City satisfied with that?