Ajax can pay 7.85 million euros (£6.5m) to the household of former participant Abdelhak Nouri after he suffered critical mind injury as a result of insufficient medical care.
Midfielder Nouri made his senior debut in 2016-17, however his taking part in profession was ended prematurely after he suffered a cardiac arrest in a pre-season match towards Werder Bremen in Austria in 2017.
Regardless of being revived on the pitch and rushed to a hospital, Nouri suffered critical and everlasting mind injury. Ajax admitted later that medical care within the acute part on the sector was not satisfactory and acknowledged legal responsibility for the results.
Ajax stated they’d reached an settlement with Nouri’s household and that proceedings earlier than an Arbitration Committee had been terminated because of the amicable settlement.
“All of us realise that the struggling for Abdelhak and his family members just isn’t over. It stays a really unhappy state of affairs, that is how we really feel right here at Ajax too,” Ajax common supervisor Edwin van der Sar stated in a press release.
“We significantly admire the way in which the household takes care of Abdelhak day and evening with quite a lot of love and a focus. After I go to him, I’m at all times welcomed with open arms by the household.
“That additionally applies to different Ajax colleagues and we admire that enormously.”
Ajax, who continued to pay Nouri after the incident, formally cancelled his contract in March 2020.
