Hi Jonathan, you're wrong, there is no contract between the former players at Liverpool FC and the club. Any player can do what they like and Liverpool FC don't give a hoot about eBay.
What you may have heard / found, however, is a similar scenario - and that is many of the former players are regularly approached at matchdays for autographs by young lads who are collecting autographs for dealers and items are then finding their way on to dealers websites and/or eBay.
Some players have now decided to only sign with dedications, others are simply fed up of it and won't sign if they suspect it is being sold on.
Tommy Smith, who is a good friend of ours, was recently subjected to a torrent of abuse after he told a few lads that he was only dedicating and he asked for no photos to be taken as a well known Liverpool dealer had used one photo of him standing with the dealers mate as 'photo proof' to peddle a stream of fakes on his website.
I don't want to start an argument about players who are happy to sign anything and those who don't want to sign anything, but this has more to do with people taking the pith and peddling fakes than any implied ego trip.
Can't speak for other clubs or players, but that's the situation with our old boys.
