Bid to stop player transfer fails

A former Hamrun Spartans president has lost his bid to stop the club from negotiating the transfer of a player in his absence because he is owed money by the club.

Victor Tedesco filed an application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction in the Civil Court against Hamrun Spartans Football Club vice-president Victor Attard, treasurer Simon Attard and secretary Salvinu Baldacchino.

The application was yesterday dismissed by Mr Justice Gino Camilleri in the Civil Court.

Tedesco requested the court to stop the club from selling or transferring Charlo (Carmel) Magro, a club footballer to Marsaxlokk FC or to any other football club without first giving applicant all details about the transfer and without giving him the opportunity to attend all negotiations on this transfer.

Tedesco claimed Hamrun Spartans owed him over Lm22,000, and that this debt had been acknowledged in a contract in the records of Notary Sandro Schembri Adami of November 15, 2001.

In terms of the contract, Hamrun Spartans had been bound to pay 70 per cent of the transfer price of any player to Tedesco.

The club had also bound itself to allow Tedesco to be present in all dealings of the club.

However, Tedesco claimed that the club had not observed the contract in its dealings to transfer Magro and, therefore, Tedesco's contractual rights were being violated.

Tedesco claimed that it was common knowledge that Hamrun Spartans FC had major financial problems and that therefore his rights would be irremediably prejudiced if this warrant was dismissed, for he would have no other means of obtaining payment of the sum of Lm22,247 owed to him.

But Mr Justice Camilleri yesterday noted that the transfer of Magro to another club had already been effected so the application could not be upheld.