In addition, the amateur football player from Amsterdam, whose identity is unknown, will receive an additional 15 percent of this amount due to the late payment. The club he played for must also reimburse his costs for, among other things, a lawyer. Added together, it comes to a sloppy 4,000 euros.
Extra salary in cash
And all this thanks to two coasters with salary agreements for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons. This was because the amounts stated on it were higher than in the player’s official employment contracts. According to those agreements, he would earn 7,500 euros net in the first football season, and 9,000 euros in the second season.
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But a higher salary had been agreed with the technical director of the club, of 14,500 euros for the first season and 13,000 euros for the second season. Part of this would be paid ‘black’. According to a friend and then teammate of the footballer, he was promised at the time that the black part would be paid in cash.
Signature
This agreement was put on two coasters, and the director signed it. According to the director, it was just not an appointment, but it was about amounts that the footballer wanted to earn. He said he would first have to get approval from the board of the club.
And so it wasn’t an appointment at all, according to the director. In court, he just couldn’t remember whether there was an agreement from the board or not. And the then secretary of the club also suffered from his memory in court. He just couldn’t imagine that the salary proposal would have been approved.
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Because these two witnesses on behalf of the club no longer knew so much about how things had gone, according to the court, ‘insufficient doubt’ has been sown about the footballer’s story. And the statements of other witnesses on behalf of the club are no reason for the court to rule in their favor.
Whatsapp conversations between the footballer and people of the club – in which he asks where the arrears are – also show, according to the judges, that there were agreements about extra payments on top of the ‘white’ salary.
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