An international court awards the unit one million dollars from the value of Khirbin’s transfer to Al Hilal
The Syrian Al-Wehda Club received more than one million dollars in compensation from Al-Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates, as a result of a ruling issued by the Sports Arbitration Court on Friday in the case of the transfer of Syrian striker Omar Kharbin from Al Dhafra to Al Hilal Saudi Arabia in 2017.
The court upheld the decision of the FIFA Players' Status Committee in July 2019, and in its ruling, which was reviewed by AFP, "Al Dhafra Club must pay Al Wahda Sports Club within 30 days from the date of notification, a total of $ 1.09 million plus interest 5% annually on the aforementioned amount from June 23, 2017 until the date on which the payment becomes effective.
After Khirbin moved from Al Wahda to Al Dhafra on loan in December 2015, the latter bought his contract in March 2016 for $ 1 million to be repaid in installments until January 1, 2021.
The three parties (the clubs and the player) agreed that if he moves to a new club before the payment deadline expires, Al Dhafra will have to pay the unit in whose ranks the player grew up, 20% of his transfer to another team.
On the other hand, the value of the penalty clause between Al Dhafra and Khirbin reached 6.5 million dollars in case he wanted to unilaterally terminate his contract.
After moving on loan to Al Hilal Saudi Arabia in 2017, he canceled his contract to move completely to the team of the capital, Riyadh, in payment of $ 5.5 million to the UAE club after a settlement between them.
A transfer that prompted the unit to demand a 20% share of Al Dhafra, who refused to pay it, considering that the player did not transfer and had canceled his contract himself.
The Syrian club resorted to the International Federation in October 2017, asking Al Dhafra to pay $ 1.3 million, which was ruled by FIFA in its favor in July 2019, considering that the transfer took place between Al Dhafra and Al Hilal.
But Al-Dhafra resorted to the arbitration court, which eventually granted the unit the right to obtain $ 1.09 million in compensation for the transfer of Khirbin, considering that the amount of $ 5.5 million was a transfer allowance for the player, although it was in the form of a penalty clause.
The agent of the Syrian club, lawyer Gerard Habibian, told France Presse, "The penalty clause was used to try to evade the payment of the amount due to the unit, especially since the three parties were aware of an agreement to grant the unit 20% of the transfer value."
It is noteworthy that Kharbin (27 years), the best player in Asia in 2017 and crowned Al Hilal with the league title three times, disengaged from Al Hilal this month, moving to the UAE unit until 2023.
Khirbin represented Syria in 44 matches between 2012 and 2019, during which he scored 18 goals, before the Syrian Football Association announced its suspension in February 2020 from representing the national team for life due to disagreements with the Tunisian coach of the national team, Nabil Maaloul.
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