Shakhtar Donetsk have threatened Tottenham with legal action after the club agree personal terms with Manor Solomon.
According to Fabrizio Romano, Tottenham agreed personal terms with Manor Solomon to sign the player on a free transfer with a four-year contract already offered.
Manor Solomon is a Shakhtar Donetsk player but was playing for Premier League club, Fulham, on loan from the Ukrainian club.
The 23-year-old joined Fulham last summer and has nudged in four goals in 19 games for Marco Silva-led team
His loan tenure expired this summer and he was set to return to his parent club Shakhtar Donetsk before Tottenham’s interest.
New Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou is said to be strongly interested in Manor Solomon and is ready to make the player his fifth signing this summer.
Ange Postecoglou, who has been primed as a good fit to return Tottenham to winning ways next season, has already hit the ground running since he returned from Celtic.
Postecoglou has made the loan deals of Dejan Kulusevksi and Pedro Porro permanent.
He has also signed goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario from Empoli and former Leicester City midfielder James Maddison.
Manor Solomon is set to be the latest addition to the Lilywhites after the club agreed personal terms with the Israeli attacker who is ready to join the club as a free agent.
Shakhtar Donetsk threaten legal action against Tottenham over Manor Solomon
Shakhtar Donetsk are threatening legal action against Tottenham for trying to sign Manor Solomon from the club as a free agent.
According to ESPN, Shakhtar Donetsk Chief Executive Sergei Palkin is ready for a legal battle with Spurs over their decision to sign the player although he still has a year remaining in his contract.
Sergei said he has contacted Solomon asking him to return to the club following the expiration of his loan move to Fulham but the 23-year-old has refused to return as he wants to play in the Premier League.
“I contacted Solomon and his agent and invited him back to our club”, he said.
“I said ‘you can play all the games in Champions League, you will be in the starting eleven’ but he doesn’t want to move and I believe he will stay in England.”
Sergei added he does not know Solomon’s next destination but if he will join Tottenham, Shakhtar Donetsk will be ready to enter into a dragging legal tussle with the London club for signing the player on a free transfer while he has 12 months remaining in his contract.
“Finally, where he will go, I don’t know. In any case, if you go to Tottenham, we will deal with Tottenham in court in this case. Everything comes to a simple situation: it sounds like unjust enrichment.
“Can you imagine, we pay big money for this player and finally Tottenham receives him for free? It is not fair in respect of our club. We will definitely go to court and we will fight for ourselves.
“I would like to send a message to those clubs who are trying to sign our players without paying a transfer fee: Shakhtar will file claims for unjust enrichment against players or clubs who have enriched themselves and benefitted by obtaining a financial advantage.
“We believe these clubs who enrich themselves at Shakhtar’s expense will be obliged to pay restitutions. Those clubs should understand what they do when they decide to sign our players.”
The Tottenham and Shakhtar Donetsk faceoff over Manor Solomon stems from the controversial FIFA Rule which allows players to suspend their contracts in Ukraine following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Annex 7 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players permit foreign players in either country to unilaterally suspend their contracts.
This implies Manor Solomon can trigger a move to any club away from Shakhtar Donetsk on a free transfer although he still has a year remaining in his contract.
