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Sead Haksabanovic to Celtic transfer flagged amid Rubin Kazan complaint as Norrkoping take payment battle to FIFA

The winger was Ange Postecoglou's final signing of the summer window as he penned a five-year-deal in Glasgow's east end.

Celtic forward Sead Haksabanovic is at the centre of a battle between former sides Rubin Kazan and IFK Norrkoping over an unpaid transfer case set to be taken to FIFA.

The 23-year-old completed his transfer to the Scottish Premiership champions on deadline day after the Russian side reluctantly allowed their star man to become Ange Postecoglou 's eight summer signing – just 12 months after signing him for £5.5million from the Swedish minnows. The Montenegro international reportedly moved for a fee in the region of £2.6million, which has been flagged by Norrkoping chairman Sakarias Mardh.


Mardh has told Swedish outlet NT Sport that the Rubin have yet to pay £3.2million of the transfer fee to the club following Haksabanovic's move to the Russian Premier League last summer. The club chief states that the Allskenskan side are set to pursue legal action to recoup their transfer fee, while confessing he was perplexed how a sale to Celtic could be rubber stamped amid the outstanding monies.


Celtic's Sead Haksabanovic against Real Madrid(Image: Getty Images)
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Mardh said: "We are working on it (recouping the transfer fee) with our lawyers. It is generally difficult with business contacts with Russia right now.

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"Everything takes a long time. This is something completely new. It is nothing that anyone has experienced before, everything is untested.

"We have our lawyer with us in this and he is one of the best transfer lawyers in the country. It is FIFA we are in contact with. Should it become relevant to impose a transfer ban on them (Rubin Kazan) then that is FIFA's question. We are not alone in being in a situation like this."

When quizzed on how Rubin have been able to sell Haksabanovic to Celtic, he added: "That is what we are trying to figure out a little. We will contact them, but he is still their player."

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