League Two side Hartlepool United have won a six-figure compensation case against Fulham over the 2019 transfer of youngster Luca Murphy.
The case had been ongoing ever since the player moved to Craven Cottage. After putting their case forward, the PFCC (Professional Footballers Compensation Committee) have now awarded Pools a substantial compensation fee.
Murphy, then aged 17, spent a short trial period at Fulham after they agreed a fee to bring him to the club. That was followed by the Cottagers suddenly ending their interest in the defender. Hartlepool then say that upon returning to the club "the previously exemplary scholar’s behaviour changed markedly to such an extent that it led to mutual termination of his contract in March 2019.
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