The transfer from Sydney van Hooijdonk to the Italian Bologna may have a very annoying tail for NAC Breda. The club from Brabant had taken into account a training fee, but did not offer the attacker a new contract and can therefore whistle for a sloppy four tons, reports BN DeStem. The amount is considerable, as it equals about twenty percent of the players budget.
The above regional newspaper says it invokes the rules of the world football association FIFA. It states that a training fee lapses as soon as a player has not received a proposal for a new contract from the club. General director Mattijs Manders denies to BN DeStem that the club has failed to offer Van Hooijdonk a new contract. “We made a proposal at the time, but unfortunately we did not come to it,” said Manders.
Manders’ words were contradicted in June by Van Hooijdonk, who said there has never been a proposal from the club. The striker signed with Bologna for four years at the beginning of July because he did not reach an agreement with NAC on a new contract. The club from the Serie A therefore took him over on a free transfer. “The season was over and you are transfer-free, then of course there are quite a few things coming your way. Are you staying in the Netherlands? Are you going to the Eredivisie? And then Bologna came at a certain point”, said Van Hooijdonk to ESPN.
The administrative blunder has major consequences for NAC, as the club misses out on an amount of 375,000 euros. That is equivalent to twenty percent of the player budget. “We do not assume that we will not get the money from Bologna,” emphasizes Manders. Van Hooijdonk, good for fifteen goals in the Kitchen Champion Division last season, played against Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool in preparation with his new club and will face Ternana on Monday during the first official match of the Coppa Italia. The season.
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