Town will still make Chester payment
Ipswich Town will still have to make a financial payment to Chester City following yesterday’s sale of Jon Walters to Stoke City – despite the fact the club were wound up earlier this year.
IPSWICH Town will still have to make a financial payment to Chester City following yesterday’s sale of Jon Walters to Stoke City – despite the fact the club were wound up earlier this year.
Walters joined Town from Chester City in January 2007 for an initial fee of �150,000, with a sell-on clause also negotiated.
Chester City were wound up earlier this year, however, following Walter’s move to Premier League Stoke City for an initial fee of �2.75m it transpires Town will still have to make their sell-on payment
Blues Chief Executive Simon Clegg said: “I can confirm that while Chester City FC was wound up in March 2010 it remains a legal entity and is controlled by the Official Receiver.
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“I can also confirm that our respective lawyers have recently reached a mutually agreeable financial settlement in respect of the contracted sell-on clause in Jon Walters’ contract which was triggered by yesterday’s sale.”
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