There has been a significant new improvement in Samir Nurkovic’s untimely departure from MaMkhize’s Royal AM.
This week it was revealed by dependable on-line supply Unplayable that “Samir Nurkovic’s legal team led by Davor Lazic have taken Royal AM to FIFA, after the striker parted ways with the club.”
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This has now been confirmed by his consultant Davor Lazic in an interview with KickOff.com.
“The participant is now not with Royal AM as a result of they terminated his contract after sending a letter with a month’s discover on September 23. It is a matter now earlier than FIFA’s dispute decision committee.
“Royal AM have not made payment of a single Rand to my client and in that regard, we sent them a letter after three months as a notice in relation to breach of contract. However, they didn’t respond, but then chose to state that the player has been on sick leave since the beginning of his employment contract, and they have taken the decision to terminate his contract.”
However, Lazic acknowledged that Nurkovic was in a position to play quickly after within the Macufe Cup, however was frequently missed.
“From July 1 until today he was never paid anything and there was no other option to take than take the matter to FIFA. He didn’t want to terminate the contract, but the club terminated the contract without just cause.”
Nurkovic has endured a nightmare few months at Royal AM
As first reported by SABC Sport in early October, the Serbian ahead had been given “30 days to leave the club due to him being on ‘sick leave’ and ‘exhausting’ the period allowed for being on the mend”.
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Nurkovic has been unable to characteristic in a top-flight fixture for Royal AM, and it appeared that the membership – owned by businesswoman Shauwn ‘MaMkhize’ Mkhize – could have grown exasperated by the indefinite harm absence.
SABC Sport additional reported that Nurkovic was owed wage funds for July and August, and this was backed up by an article on FAR Post.
“Royal AM didn’t pay anything, accommodation, no salary, nothing for over two months,” the insider instructed FARPost. “Nurkovic’s representative, Dajan Simac, had a chat with their lawyers, who sent Royal AM a letter to pay the player.
“However, MaMkhize involved her lawyers as well, and they sent a letter back. They wanted to terminate the contract of Nurkovic because he was injured. Nurkovic started the pre-season with the club, and after one week at training, he got injured.
“So MaMkhize [Shauwn Mkhize, Royal AM president], was advised to terminate the striker’s contract, and the Nurkovic camp was taken aback by the club’s decision.”
Legal issues have been escalated to the worldwide governing physique FIFA in hopes of resolving this subject.
Recently, when talking to Marawa Sports Worldwide, MaMkhize dismissed the rumours of a 30-day discover, and implied that the ahead wouldn’t be leaving Royal AM.
“You know I don’t entertain rumours anymore,” she instructed Marawa Sports Worldwide. “So much has been said about Royal AM that is not true, just now ‘the coach was no longer there’ and I said to myself, I’m not gonna be entertaining rumours that are untrue.”
During this previous low season it was confirmed that Nurkovic can be leaving Kaizer Chiefs after his three-year affiliation with the membership had come to an finish, with the 30-year-old heading to Royal AM.
However, regardless of making this key transfer to Chiefs’ PSL rivals, query marks have remained over what the planning was for the striker at Royal AM.
According to some reviews initially of August, Nurkovic had the truth is required knee surgical procedure, which might have led to a prolonged absence.
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