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The family of Abdelhak Nouri and Ajax have reached an agreement on a compensation settlement, reports the NOS. 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. Now that the Nouri family and Ajax have reached an agreement, an arbitration case is over.

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.

However, initially no agreement was reached between Ajax and the Nouri family about the amount of the compensation settlement. For that reason, it was announced in January of this year that the Nouri family had filed an arbitration case against Ajax, something that general manager Edwin van der Sar had previously called ‘probable’. This arbitration case should have been filed in October, but now it appears that both parties have found each other after all.

The NOS reports 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 upon will not be disclosed. According to the NOS Nouri’s neurological situation is unchanged. He is doing better at home, although he still needs 24/7 care. Nouri is ‘calm, but also alert’, can show emotions such as laughing and crying and communicates with facial expressions.