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It's impossible to decline to activate a PO if you don't have the option to do so. Just as it's impossible to activate it if you don't have it. So nobody 'gave up' their PO, other than Brown, who gave up the PO that would've come due in 2027.
Only if you have masochistic tendencies. Be sensible, no sharp objects nearby.
In that case I'll line up a few beers and let the game begin.
Except when you yourself made the choice to take a different option, thus declining/giving up the PO in your favour rather than activating it. Pretty simple really.
It would have only 'come due' if he elected to trigger it.
You were talking about players giving up the PO as though they didn't want the option any longer. Choosing or declining to activate it (or signing an even longer extension) means they did take the option. It's only future options that they can give up, as in the case of Drown.
No, I was talking about people choosing not to take up the PO that they'd haggled for in their previous contract negotiations, for whatever reason.
Huh... um... So declining to activate the PO means they did take it up? Even if they signed and registered a contract with totally different conditions? That's no different to just signing a new contract fresh off the street, so can't mean that they "took up" the PO.
Either you're drunk again Pou, or you've argued POs so much that you've painted yourself into a very narrow definitional corner.
