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Inverness Caledonian Thistle left reeling after Marius Niculae wins fee dispute Fifa says the newly promoted Scottish Premier League side must pay their former striker money due from his transfer to Dynamo Bucharest in 2008. Inverness Caledonian Thistle have been left reeling from the harsh financial blow after Fifa insisted yesterday that they must pay their former striker, Marius Niculae, ?142,500 (about ?133,000). Niculae reported the Highland club, who suffered a costly relegation to the Irn-Bru first division in May, to world football?s governing body immediately after his transfer to Dynamo Bucharest in July 2008. He claimed he was due to receive 30 per cent of the transfer fee for the ?475,000 move back to his native Romania after a season in Scotland, as was stipulated in his contract. Inverness had initially refused to release paperwork to allow Niculae?s transfer to be completed until the Romania international waived both his sell-on entitlement and that for the second half of a ?200,000 signing-on fee. Dynamo, on receipt of an invoice, promptly paid the Scottish side the agreed transfer figure and published documents on their website showing this monetary transfer had been made; a move which led to his formal release from Scotland. Niculae was still of a mind to reclaim both sets of payments due to him; Fifa?s dispute resolution chamber has agreed that the sell-on figure was indeed payable. Inverness decided to take the issue to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, a move that has subsequently cost them another ?20,000. ?The club?s view was that it was a risk worth taking as we felt that the player instigated his own transfer by requesting a transfer and thereafter arranging the same,? a statement from the club said. The evidence from around the time of Niculae?s exit, though contradicted the very basis of Inverness?s case. There was also clear evidence of a written transfer request presented by Niculae's legal team. The civil action between Niculae and Inverness has apparently been completed by an "undisclosed out of court payment". A spokesman for the Supporters Trust, Johndo MacKenzie, said "What a bunch of muppets our support is for falling for this spoof"

He's getting a red dot when it comes live.

Kind of proud of the new logo. Its the first time we have bothered with a proper logo and I think CaleyD did very well in adding both the Eagle and the Thistle as well as making sure we had red/blue/black/white all in there !!!

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fecking disgrace .

I hear ya... And whoever suggested Bob Dylan: excellent shout. Count me in!

fecking disgrace . Unfortunately the reputation buttons are not yet enabled. :angry: Foran is a far better leader on the pitch and will get the rest of the team fired up. Grant is mature enough to realise the team needs the best leader available and if he isn't strong enough to deal with the decision that's all the more reason to pass the captaincy on.

Love the new site , only down side is the badge but you dont really notice it after a while .

Is Niculae getting married? Are we all invited? Nope we are forming a group and singing the feckin caley rap at Eurovision. What's the group called? Johndo and the Muppets? This entire exchange: