Dutch club to drag Oliseh to court over claims on why he was sacked

Former Supper Eagles captain and coach, Sunday Oliseh, may be dragged to court over claim that the actual reason a Dutch club, Fortuna Sittard, sacked him was because of his refusal to participate in illegal activities at the club and violate the law.

Unhappy with the claim, the Dutch second division club has threatened to take legal action against Sunday Oliseh.

The club had cited “innumerable culpable acts” and a “disrupted employment relationship” with the players and other employees as some of the reasons it fired Oliseh.

But reacting, Oliseh refuted the club’s claim and wrote that he was sacked “Due to my refusal to participate in illegal activities at Fortuna Sittard and violate the law, I have been suspended from my duties as coach by the foreign owners of Fortuna.”

Following his claim, the club has therefore called on the former Super Eagles midfielder and Ajax player to substantiate his claims or face legal action.

According to the club, there was no truth it fired Oliseh because of his “refusal to participate in illegal activities”.

A statement on the club’s official website on the matter read, “Fortuna want to fight the accusations made. In this context, the club will also take the necessary legal follow-up steps. Fortuna does not recognise itself at all in these accusations, which were not highlighted by Sunday Oliseh internally.

“The case will be presented by Fortuna Sittard to the arbitration committee of the KNVB (the Dutch Football Association), an independent body, which will now make an assessment of whether there is sufficient grounds to terminate the employment contract of Sunday Oliseh.”

The club went further to say, “Fortuna Sittard will no longer discuss any new unfounded accusations by Sunday Oliseh on the club’s website.

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“Fortuna will take the appropriate legal countermeasures. If there are any questions from the side of the KNVB in this respect, Fortuna Sittard is fully open to internal investigation to show that the accusations are completely unfounded.”

Meanwhile, the club has appointed their youth team’s head coach Claudio Braga as the senior team’s caretaker manager “until the club has found a new trainer” to replace Oliseh.

 

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