Amid the latest financial windfall in the Saudi Arabian league Pro League, top side Al-Nassr have been hit with a FIFA ban preventing the club from registering new players for their failure to pay add-ons owed to Leicester City as part of the Ahmed Musa’s deal.
However, FIFA has now placed a ban on the Riyadh-based club from registering any more new players, as a result of the club’s failure to pay Leicester City as much as £390K in add-ons for the deal that brought Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa to the club back in 2018.
Musa signed for the Saudi Arabian Pro League side in a deal worth £16.50m shortly after the Nigerian impressed at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
According to the Mirror newspaper, the ruling body (CAS) in 2021, informed the club of £390K(€460K) in performance-related-add-ons that were triggered by Musa between 2018-20, but the club has yet to make the payment.
Al-Nassr have been banned by FIFA from registering new players for failing to pay add-ons owed to Leicester as part of the Ahmed Musa deal. Between 2018-20 Musa triggered £390k (€460k) in performance-related add-ons, which are yet to be paid despite CAS ruling.
Al-Nassr’s failure to comply with the ruling resulted in the registration ban which would stop them from signing some top players from anywhere in the world.
This type of case has been a widespread issue throughout the Saudi Pro League in the past, but the sovereign fund(PIF) in charge of funding Al-Nassr and some other clubs in the league is working to ensure this type of punishment and problems do not happen again.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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