<Tr> <Th> Total </Th> <Th> 100% </Th> <Th> 5% </Th> </Tr> <P> As of July 2015, there is an ongoing controversy between several youth soccer clubs and the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) over this issue . When Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders sold the rights to DeAndre Yedlin to Tottenham Hotspur for US $4 million, a Seattle - area youth club for which Yedlin had played, Crossfire Premier, sought its share of solidarity payments . While Spurs acknowledged Crossfire's claim, MLS and U.S. Soccer intercepted the funds before they could be sent to Crossfire, claiming that the sealed ruling in a 1996 antitrust case gave MLS exclusive rights to all transfer fees involving league players . Crossfire has since petitioned FIFA to either force payment or allow the club to sue MLS and U.S. Soccer; several other youth clubs have since joined in Crossfire's request, including one of Clint Dempsey's previous clubs . </P> <Ul> <Li> Stephen Appiah: solidarity contribution was excluded from the agreed € 8 million price . Fenerbahçe had an obligation to pay former clubs for additional € 400,000 . </Li> <Li> Vitorino Antunes: € 1.5 million x 5% x (5% x 4 seasons + 10% x 4 seasons) = € 45,000 to Freamunde from Roma </Li> <Li> Arjen Robben: € 500,000 to Groningen from Bayern Munich </Li> <Li> Robinho: € 1.805 million to Santos from Manchester City </Li> </Ul> <Li> Stephen Appiah: solidarity contribution was excluded from the agreed € 8 million price . Fenerbahçe had an obligation to pay former clubs for additional € 400,000 . </Li>

Who gets the money when a football player is sold