{"id":162090,"date":"2014-02-13T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/esperance-pleads-with-fifa-confirms-to-pay-clottey-transfer-money-to-chelsea-in-one-month\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T18:01:48","slug":"esperance-pleads-with-fifa-confirms-to-pay-clottey-transfer-money-to-chelsea-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/02\/13\/esperance-pleads-with-fifa-confirms-to-pay-clottey-transfer-money-to-chelsea-in-one-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperance Pleads With FIFA, Confirms To Pay Clottey Transfer Money To Chelsea in One Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4355888481585_984137.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Tunisian side Esperance Sportive have plead with FIFA to be given one month grace period to pay Ghanaian side Berekum chelsea an amount of $1.4million plus five percent interest relating to the unpaid transfer fee of striker Emmanuel Clottey, Ghanasportsonline can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Clottey was transferred to the Blood and Gold in September 2012 after the Ghana striker put up a sterling performance in the CAF Champions League where he scored 12 goals.<\/p>\n<p>But Esperance have since not paid a dime to the Ghanaian club who made several unsuccessful attempts to retrieve their money.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of the single judge and chairman of FIFA Players\u2019 Status Committee, Geoff Thompson of England, ruled that Esperance pay the amount in addition to a five percent interest calculated since 15 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling made on 15 January 2014, incidentally the anniversary of Esperance\u2019s establishment, was ratified by FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke.<\/p>\n<p>Esperance have one month to pay the money from the date of notification which was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions available in default of judgment after 5 March, 2014 will be relegation to the lowest division in Tunisia and suspension of their license to conduct player transfers to and from the club.<\/p>\n<p>But Ghanasportsonline can confirm the receipt of a letter from Esperance admitting to been at fault and have therefore confirmed that they will pay Chelsea in one month.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian side Esperance Sportive have plead with FIFA to be given one month grace period to pay Ghanaian side Berekum chelsea an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}