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Southampton Settle Russell Martin Compensation With Swansea City
Tuesday, 12th Nov 2024 20:29

Its dragged on a bit, but Saints have finally sorted out the compensation package with the Swans for Russell Martin's switch from South Wales to the South Coast, although the details of the settlement are rather vague.

According to walesonline Southampton & Swansea City have finally agreed the pay off for Russell Martin's alleged breach of contract when he left the Swans.

The dispute involved the compensation due under Martin's contract with the South Wales club, this centred on the terms of his contract, which stated that a Premier League club would have to pay £2m as opposed to the £1.25m required for an approach from a Championship club.

Southampton claimed that they would only have to pay £1.25m as they had been relegated from the Premier League, but Swansea argued that the approach was made to Martin when they were still technically in the Premier League despite the season ending, essentially that they had tapped him up and he had spoken to Saints without their consent, also that he had leaked the details of what compensation needed to be paid and the details etc.

This has dragged on for the last 16 months or so, the Premier League declined to take any action and it now seems that the two clubs have got together and sorted out thigs between them.

Whilst it is assumed that the agreement reached is somewhere between the £1.25m & £2m disputed, it's been suggested by sources in South Wales that the agreement was ironed out during the negotiations to take Nathan Wood from Swansea to St Mary's, a fee believed to be around £3m.

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codge added 22:14 - Nov 12 Blah Blah Blah.
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IanRC added 22:54 - Nov 12 Any chance they would take him back if we pay them.
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beynali73 added 10:09 - Nov 13 I'm assuming Swansea wanted to pay us more to take him off their hands which was the sticking point :) On a serious note it says a lot about sports direct though.
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Ali_Diarea added 13:23 - Nov 13 Well done Saints, it only cost £5m in extra legal fees
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HythePeer added 16:51 - Nov 13 Does anyone know their returns policy?
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