Go Round FC report Rivers United to FIFA for breach of contractual obligations

Nigeria Nationwide League aspect, Go Spherical FC has reported Nigeria Skilled Soccer League aspect, Rivers United to FIFA participant statute committee for breaking contractual settlement.

The 2 groups who’re each primarily based in Rivers State have unresolved points regarding the switch of a participant, Nelson Esor.

And the overall supervisor of Go Spherical FC that the league champions haven’t stored to the contract settlement of the aforementioned participant.

“We had a clause within the contract with them within the Esor deal that in occasion of an additional switch, we (Go Spherical FC) will get thirty-five p.c, however since Esor moved to Simba, Rivers United have neither paid us the cash nor even responded to any of our correspondence to them,” Uboh mentioned.

Rivers United had failed to answer the primary letter despatched to them by the Common Supervisor of Go Spherical FC, and the membership itself, by means of its secretary.

“The second letter to them was to verify how a lot the deal was value and ask once we will get our fee and so they ignored it,” Soni Uboh continued.

“By the point we wrote a 3rd letter to them, they, fairly than reply to it, referred to as a gathering which had their Common Supervisor Okey Kpalikwu, Sports activities Commissioner, Chris Inexperienced, and Secretary, Ahmed Abdulrahman in attendance the place they instructed our secretary that we weren’t eligible to get the cash anymore and they won’t pay.

“The assembly was referred to as by Christopher Inexperienced below the pretense of resolving the problem, however fairly he made a case why Rivers United wouldn’t pay our thirty-five p.c to us.

“The one factor we will do right now is to take the case to the FIFA Participant statute committee, and that’s the place we at the moment are.

“I spoke to the Common Supervisor of Rivers United and he instructed me that solely the sports activities commissioner, Chris Inexperienced can approve fee of the cash, and this seems to me like interference.

“The sports activities commissioner has additionally hijacked the matter as a result of he has prompt that if we don’t thoughts he can simply give one thing little to assist us. I contemplate this ridiculous and an try and shortchange us,” Soni Uboh mentioned.

“Even the participant, Nelson Esor had reached out to me, to tell me that fee had been made and he requested if we had gotten our share from Rivers United. This additional buttresses the settlement between us, the participant, and Rivers United,” Uboh mentioned.

In keeping with Uboh, Rivers United claimed that as a result of Nelson Esor renewed his contract with them after the preliminary three years, then Go Spherical FC is just not eligible to get their 35% sell-on clause from the deal that took him to Simba FC in Tanzania.

Therefore, Go Spherical FC mentioned that awaits the FIFA Standing Committee determination on matter as they may enable Rivers United to cheat them of the advantages of a participant they nurtured from his newbie day until when he grew to become a longtime participant.