Friday, November 12, 2021 at 4:31 PM• Jeroen van Poppel • Last update: 16:36

There is no agreement between Ajax and Abdelhak Nouri’s family about compensation, Edwin van der Sar said Friday afternoon at the General Meeting of Shareholders. “It has not yet been formally completed,” said the general manager of Ajax, quoted by Ajax Showtime.

Last Sunday brought the NOS to the outside that after long negotiations an agreement has been concluded between Ajax and the Nouri family. However, a press release from the team from Amsterdam was not forthcoming and, according to Van der Sar, that is because it has not yet been finalized. As soon as that is the case, Ajax will officially report this, the director says.

Nouri went to the ground in July 2017 in an exhibition game with Werder Bremen. His heart stopped, causing severe and permanent brain damage. A year after the incident, Ajax acknowledged full liability and admitted that the treatment on the field was not adequate. Nouri has continued to receive his salary since then until his contract expired in the summer of last year. Because Ajax has acknowledged full liability, a financial arrangement had to be made for Nouri.

Both parties have been arguing about a compensation settlement for the past four years and an arbitration case seemed to have to resolve this dispute. Ajax is very keen to prevent that and with the agreement reported on Sunday, that matter also seemed to be over. The NOS reported that the compensation scheme concerns ‘the costs of his care, the loss of his earning capacity and compensation for non-material damage in the form of damages’. The amount that the Nouri and Ajax family have agreed on will not be disclosed.