The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) will order the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to relegate Asante Kotoko from the Ghana Premier League (GPL), by close May 10, 2020, if they fail to pay Esperance of Tunisia $240,000.
FIFA on Friday, April 10, ordered Asante Kotoko to pay Esperance of Tunisia, $240,000 following the transfer of striker Emmanuel Clottey to them.
According to a verdict released by FIFA on Friday, April 10, Kotoko had been ordered to pay the Tunisian club $180,000 for the transfer of the player, an additional $45,000 as interest on the figure.
In addition, Kotoko would pay the committee that sat on the case between the two sides over the transfer of the player $15,000, bringing the total figure to $240,000.
Asante Kotoko in 2015 signed Clottey, for the Ghana Premier League (GPL), but the player was still having a running contract with Tunisian giants Esperance.
The Tunisian side challenged Kotoko at FIFA leading to a prolonged legal tussle, with the world football body imposing a fine of $180,000 on Clottey for breach of contract.
Clottey, a former Great Olympics and Berekum Chelsea striker has since had a legal battle with Kotoko at an Accra High Court in 2019 to compel the Porcupine Warriors to settle the fine imposed on him by FIFA.
Source: GNA
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I wonder how somw people rejoice in other peoples misfortunes. How much does it profit a man!!!!! Some people are so myopic they always think the shoe wars better on the wrong foot. The previous writer Don so called Biko should wait until a heavy metal drops on his feet and he will realise pepper hurts when it is in your eyes. God be with him
It serves them right! They think they can do the same stupiiid under dealings they are used to doing in Ghana and get away with it! I just don't understand why people know the rules but chose to break them for their selfish-personal interests! That is what this country is used to: because I am powerful and connected and have money, I can break the rules and the law will not apply to me. How do you build a progressive society with such people! The punishment is even too lenient; they should have deducted points together with the penalty-payment to serve as deterrent to others!