The fronts harden between FC Sion and the dismissed players with immediate effect. The dismissed workers reacted after the numerous criticisms suffered on social networks. Seydou Doumbia notably published a message on this subject on his Instagram account Friday early in the evening.
The Ivorian striker wishes his followers very good health. He claims to have remained professional until the last training with the club and always remains so. “On Tuesday March 17, 2020 at 5 pm, we players receive a letter asking us to accept to sign or to refuse to sign without discussion a drastic reduction in our remuneration without any prospect of accommodation.”
A dismissal letter sent by Whatsapp
He mentioned an emergency players’ meeting at 7 p.m. “All professional players, without exception, decide not to accept such an approach, either in substance or in the form of the problem,” he wrote.
The next day, a nominative letter regarding the choice to make for his salary reaches him by Whatsapp messaging according to the story he gives. “Following the meeting the day before …, common sense commanded me to refuse such a letter by Whatsapp,” he said. “Less than 30 minutes later, I still received a dismissal letter through the same channel.”
Seydou Doumbia finally addresses the supporters and supporters of FC Sion “that there has been, on the part of my teammates and me, no lack of consideration or any other argument, which led to this situation. There was no dialogue, no accompanying measures, none of that, “he concludes.
Johan Djourou speaks for his part on the “Blick” site. “We have not refused because we refuse to cut our wages. Currently, partial unemployment is not possible for fixed-term contracts, as in our case. We don’t want to make legal mistakes. We are ready to make sacrifices, notably to devote part of our salaries to club employees. Team executives agreed. It’s even our duty to make sacrifices. Three months without pay won’t affect the majority of us: But we also have rights. “
If the president of FC Sion does not speak publicly on the subject, he would have given up doing it according to the “Blick”, he nevertheless made his position known in a letter addressed to Lucien Valloni, president of the Swiss Association of football players, from which the German daily publishes extracts.
The presidential message responds to the protest of the association to which the elements concerned by the measure addressed themselves, namely Pajtim Kasami, Alex Song, Ermir Lenjani, Xavier Kouassi, Seydou Doumbia, Mickaël Facchinetti, Christian Zock, Birama Ndoye and Johan Djourou .
No collective redundancies to nine people
“We are at war. Not just any war, a health war, “writes the Valais leader, taken over by the” Blick “. “And you? You advise players to refuse short-time working in order to protect them from contract termination due to just cause and force majeure. I believe, Maître Valloni, that you live outside of today’s reality. ”
He adds that the measure is not a collective dismissal since it does not affect ten people. Such an approach would have required negotiations. The president of FC Sion says he is ready to meet Lucien Valloni to discuss the case of the dismissed players.
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