Unique: Shakhtar nonetheless need Tottenham to pay switch charge for Solomon
Solomon, who spent final season at Fulham, joined Tottenham on a free switch earlier this summer season through the use of FIFA’s Annex 7 modification.
Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine final 12 months, overseas gamers or coaches at Russian and Ukrainian golf equipment are allowed to unilaterally droop their contracts till June 2024.
Solomon’s deal at Shakhtar was as a consequence of expire on December 31, 2023, which means he was capable of droop his contract at Shakhtar past its expiry, permitting him to hitch Spurs as a free agent.
Manor Solomon price Shakhtar round £5.6m however was capable of go away on a free
/ Getty ImagesShakhtar head to London subsequent week for a pre-season pleasant with Tottenham and can use the chance to debate a charge for the extremely rated midfielder as they appear to recoup the €6.5million (£5.6m) charge they paid to signal him from Maccabi Petah Tikva in 2019.
“We are sure Tottenham executives understand that Shakhtar invested significant money in the Solomon transfer, investment that Ukrainian clubs in our difficult position, simply cannot afford to lose,” Palkin instructed Standard Sport.
“We hope we will have a meeting with Tottenham representatives on the eve of our friendly match and in good faith we will find a solution to the Manor Solomon issue. The solution should satisfy both sides.
“We are not trying to receive some kind of profit. We need just to cover everything that we lost, and that’s it. I believe that we will find a solution, an amicable solution, to have all parties happy.”
The modification to Annex 7, the ‘Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players’, occurred in March 2022 when conflict broke out in Ukraine.
Originally the modification was as a consequence of run till June 2022, however it was then prolonged by a 12 months and now till June 2024. Shakhtar challenged the modification within the Court of Arbitration for Sport, however CAS dominated in FIFA’s favour.
Shakhtar at the moment are mounting a contemporary authorized problem via the European Commission, with the membership believing Annex 7 has already price them £68m in misplaced switch charges.
As properly as Solomon, Shakhtar have had points with winger Tete and Annex 7. Tete used the modification and joined Lyon for the 2022-23 season, however Shakhtar loaned him to Leicester in January for a reported charge of €1m. Tete nonetheless has a contract with Shakhtar and the Ukrainian membership have, because of this, filed a declare in opposition to Lyon through the FIFA Football Tribunal as they consider they abused Annex 7.
“First of all, at this moment, we want to set up some kind of solidarity fund for Ukrainian clubs, because not just our club suffers from this Annex 7,” mentioned Palkin.
“We want to set up the fund to support Ukrainian football, otherwise we will have big difficulties.
“The situation is quite catastrophic. All sources of income that we have before, and now we just have two sources – to sell players and to receive some kind of bonuses from UEFA.
“When FIFA issued this Annex 7, they just cancelled one of the [financial] sources that we have. They always say that we are one football family, but as I understand, Ukraine is out of this football family.”
Shakhtar at the moment are primarily based in Kiev as they attempt to proceed taking part in soccer whereas conflict grips the nation.
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“Life is very hard,” says Palkin. “The worst time is in the night, because the Russians are launching drones and rockets. It can continue for five or six hours in the night. Therefore, can you imagine, when almost every night you are not sleeping.
“You are staying in the basement, you are staying in shelters. From a mental point of view, it’s very difficult to live through all this.”
To increase cash for the conflict effort, Shakhtar are going through Tottenham at Spurs’ stadium on August 6 and Palkin has thanked golf equipment in England and their followers for supporting the trigger.
“We feel it,” he mentioned. “The most important thing is they pay attention, big attention to what is going on in Ukraine.
“All the money [from the friendly] we will send for charitable things in Ukraine. We have a lot of projects – supporting children, supporting severe injured soldiers, supporting families that suffer from this war. All this money will go this way.”