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Two Senegalese clubs upset over lack of compo for Sarr Watford move

Two Senegalese clubs says they will go to FIFA with a complaint over unpaid fees from Ismalia Sarr's transfer to Watford.

Sarr moved to Vicarage Road from Rennes last summer in a club-record £30m.

A FIFA rule states 5 per cent of a transfer fee should be shared between clubs where the player featured between the ages of 12 and 23.

Generation Foot and Linguere de Saint-Louis claim they have received none of the fee.

Generation Foot's president, Mady Toure told the BBC: "They promised us a certain amount of money - 525,000 euros (£462,000) split in five payments.

"Since January, we have sent several emails without any answer from them. They also sent a transfer order to my fellow president of Linguere de Saint-Louis (Amara Traore) and since then he didn't receive anything."

Traore said he it is his belief that Watford are trying to "buy time" and that they have said they currently cannot make the payments due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"We've seen several transfer orders but no money - so it confirms my theory that they are teasing us to buy time," he said.

"Our budget is around 120m FCFA (£161,000) and they owe us 57m FCFA (£76,000) - split in five payments - so it's half our annual budget.

"We will go to Fifa.

"I am pretty sure you don't need to go to the office to send a bank transfer. Let's be serious. This first payment was supposed to be done 10 January, so that reason (coronavirus) is inadmissible.

"Fifa should give them severe sanctions. We were expecting something better for a club of the number one league of the world."

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