SABAH
Today, Sabah FC reviewed the decision of AFFA’s Players’ Status and Transfer Committee. According to that decision, the claims of the club’s former player, Yusif Imanov, were partially upheld, while the club’s counterclaims were rejected.
The club believes that the Committee has reached several unlawful and baseless conclusions in this decision.
First, the regulation requiring a party to send an official notice to the other party and grant a deadline for the fulfillment of demands before submitting an application to the Committee is not a mere formality, but a legally important and mandatory requirement. Failure to comply with this requirement should prevent the player’s claim from being accepted for consideration. However, the Committee’s interpretation of this provision has completely deprived it of its intended meaning.
Second, the Committee failed to properly assess the key provision of the contract signed between the player and the club, which stipulates that the player may perform not only for the first team but for any team (both first and second teams).
If the player’s assignment to the reserve team is regulated by the contract, then the exclusive authority to decide which players participate in the first or second team belongs to the club and its coaching staff. This authority of the coaching staff cannot be restricted. Therefore, the argument that the player’s removal from the first team was unlawful is legally unacceptable.
Nevertheless, the Committee has created a dangerous precedent by implying—without any legal basis—that it, rather than the coaching staff, can decide which team a player must play for.
The Committee’s decision is not final, and Sabah FC will use all available legal mechanisms to appeal this unlawful, unfounded, non-objective, and unfair decision.
Today, Sabah FC reviewed the decision of AFFA’s Players’ Status and Transfer Committee. According to
