Seems as though the player called Vaz

Has today left Chelmsford but he hasn't got a work permit....

Chelmsford City FC can now confirm that Eduino Vaz has departed the club after 50 games for the Clarets

Robbie Simpson spoke about the situation of Vaz in his post-match interview with ClaretsTV following our Vanarama National League South fixture with Welling United.

Simpson explained “I think me and Mickey feel really let down by Eduino. He has got no legal rights to work in this country, so financially, we can only pay him his expenses to come here and play football. He has to play for the love of the game. Legally he’s got settled status in this country, but he’s not got a right to work and we’re in a position where we’ve tried to help him get his right to work, we really have, and we’ve spoken to other clubs that have showed an interest in him or rang us and have said ‘we’ve heard the left-back is good’. One of them is a Premier League club that I know really well and I’ve asked them if they would be able to help him get his get his rights to work in his country and they said yes, leave it with us and we will speak to them.”

“We’re not in a position where we were going to say to him don’t worry we’ll pay you cash in and and and hope no one finds out, because not only if someone does find out it makes a club look really, really bad, and we could get a big fine or I don’t know what the justice system will do in that instance, but we don’t want to run the risk of him getting deported. So we’ve done ever so much for Eduino, as much as we possibly can.”

“We did get an approach from from Barnsley, and I think that’s out there. We owe to him to go out there and train. I called Barnsley personally and said we’re happy for him to come up and train with you, but just to let you know, this is his situation, he cannot sign for you because of this. They’re not allowed to give non-contracts out in the Football League. So Eduino can’t play higher than any side that can give non contracts out. He can only earn expenses for what he does to what his travel and boots, etc. so you can only be reimbursed as such.”

Simpson elaborated on how he made Barnsley aware of the situation and they responded explaining “we understand that but we’d like to get him up and just to have a closer look at him. He’s not the only left that we’re going to get up but in the future, but if he does have a right to work and he does impress then we might look to do something.”

“Barnsley were very accommodating. They said they don’t want to take him away from us. We want him to be willing to carry on playing for you and and get him up in a week where you haven’t got a midweek game, so we can have a good look at him in for a full week’s training. So we were doing that together with Barnsley.”

“And then Eduino has obviously taken advice from from someone, I don’t know who, because he does have an agent who I speak to and he was fully on board with what the discussions with with us and Barnsley, but there’s a third party who no one really knows has got in Eduino’s ear, and and told him that we’re preventing him from moving on, but we’re really not and we’re trying our best for him both as a working, part of this country and in a footballing sense, because once he did have his National Insurance number and right to work, we would bang the drum for Eduino and it would look great on us if he moved higher.”

“From when he first came in, we’ve taken a punt on him up to now and he’s still got so much to work on. It’s just really disappointing that we woke up in the morning to a text message from Eduino saying he’s left with no real explanation no phone calls. I feel really let down by him, really confused by the whole situation that he’s trying to rush things. If he goes up to Barnsley this week, comes in and does really well and they want to sign in they physically can’t. So I’m just really confused and baffled by the whole situation”

“I hope whoever’s advising [Eduino] is realising that they could be playing with a kid’s future, because we really care about every single player in there. Me and Mickey have worked so hard at understanding them off the pitch as well as on and we just feel really let down and gutted

 

Apologies for all the text at beginning

 

A bit contradictory about his ability to work because you can work if you’ve got settled status as I understand it

 

I thought that too. Not entirely sure though. Or perhaps the bloke isn't entirely sure either and got scrambled words.

Outside of all this though, simply football terms, it's interesting to see there's a premier league club interested in taking him. Sounds like he has something about him

 

Yep, me too. If he's any good I'm sure that everything will become clear.

 

Wonder if Vaz reads the Viz.

 

Might be quite innocent. Vaz might av' just nipped out for some Tea.

 

As a mortgage advisor that deals with some clients with settled status, you definitely can work! You can work with less permanent status than that.

 

With the immigration system as it is, i'm not surprised the rot has set in regarding pro footballers

 

Isn't settled status for people from the EU who were living and working in the UK (Part of the whole Brexit nonsense)?

Eduino Vaz isn't from the EU. He's from Guinea-Bissau. I don't know anything about him or his circumstances, but whatever they are, it's almost certainly not 'settled status'. Unless it also has a different definition for people of other nationalities, which would be very confusing.

 

I think it possibly does. Will’s work interviewed someone from outside EU who had a right to live here (and has lived here for quite a while and went to uni here years ago) who, when they tried to employ, didn’t have the right to work. I might have misremembered the exact phrase (which I know is important) but it was definitely something like that which gave an assumption to everyone that working would be allowed.

Edit: I asked Will and he doesn’t remember the exact term but it was a different situation. He’d just finished his degree and then Masters here and was allowed to work for two years but would then have to leave. As he wanted to apply for Citizenship, he couldn’t take the job as it would have meant that process took much longer for some reason.

 

He is from Guinea-Bissau but he arrived here from Portugal, so that might add to the confusion.

 

He has dual-nationality, Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.

 

Beat me to it, but iirc Portugal has some kind of citizenship deal with their former colonies - similar to France - allowing them to live and work in Europe.