Nurkovic legal team wants PSL or Safa to pay up for MaMkhize's mess

Serbian player wants league to pay club's grant to him

- By Kgomotso Mokoena

Samir Nurkovic and his legal team have made a tactical change in their fight to get the R15-million owed to the Serbian and former Kaizer Chiefs striker by Royal AM.

Nurkovic and his Croatia-based lawyer Davor Lazić are now pointing their rifles at the PSL and Safa, saying that they want the two organisations to take on the financial responsibility.

They say that failure to do so, they will report the matter back to Fifa.

Nurkovic is involved in a legal battle to recover the money owed to him by Royal AM, the former PSL club that is owned by eccentric businesswoman Shauwn “MaMkhize” Mkhize. The club's membership of the PSL was terminated after it failed to honour league matches.

Royal AM had prematurely terminated Nurkovic's contract, and the Serbian took the club to the dispute resolution chamber of the Fifa Tribunal that ruled in his favour.

Fifa then ordered the KZN club to pay Nurkovic R15-million according to the employment agreement. They also enforced a transfer ban on the club, which prevented the outfit to sign new players.