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| Hearts, Kotoko Set For Fresh Legal Tussle | |
| Date: Wed, Dec 8th 2004 | |
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Kumasi Asante Kotoko say they are prepared for a showdown with arch rivals Hearts of Oak in the latest row over star player Charles Taylor. Hearts are demanding a forty per cent stake from the 350,000-dollar transfer of Taylor from Kotoko to Qatar. Hearts say they are entitled to the 40 per cent stake in the transfer based on an agreement between them and Kotoko during the protracted transfer of the player from Hearts to Kotoko. Hearts board secretary Ernest Thompson told JoySports the club would go to court to block the GFA from issuing an international transfer certificate for Taylor unless Kotoko agree to pay the 40 per cent share. But Kotoko counter that they have no written agreement with Hearts to that effect and have flatly refused to pay any share to Hearts. Kotoko Public Relations Director Kwame Owusu Ansah in an interview with JoySports said that Hearts of Oaks claim has no basis. To start with there is no such agreement between Hearts and us to pay any fourty percent to them in the transfer of Taylor. Also, Hearts were instructed by the GFA to refund 800million cedis to us during the transfer of the player but they have refused. We are not paying them anything and are prepared to meet them in court over this matter, Owusu Ansah said. Taylor's 1.2 billion cedi transfer from Hearts to Kotoko was a hugely controversial affair that dragged for several months. « back to list |
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