the hague a dutch court awarded 45 million euros 49 million in damages wednesday to netherlands international and inter milan centreback stefan de vrij after a legal battle over a transfer with his former agentde vrij dragged his longtime representative sports entertainment group seg to the amsterdam district court in february claiming he had been disadvantaged in his move to inter from lazio in 2018the 30yearold de vrij accused seg of violating disclosure obligations during transfer talks which eventually saw him leave lazio for inter after months of speculationthe former feyenoord player also said inter wanted to pay him a higher salary but in the end he only received a 375millioneuro deal for five yearsduring the transfer seg said it was only negotiating on behalf of inter as stated within an agreement with de vrij the amsterdam district court saidhowever the court believed seg was also negotiating on de vrijs behalf at the same timeseg received 75 million euros in commission as well as an additional two million euros for the transfer which de vrij said he was never told aboutif thats the case the law says there has to be transparency about agreements especially if theres selfinterest involved by the mediator seg and internazionale about renumeration the court said in a statementseg received a substantial commission and therefore had a disclosure obligation the court saidthe agency also had not mentioned it received an additional two million euros in compensation nor that it would receive 75 percent of a possible transfer fee the court addedeven if seg told de vrij about the 75millioneuro commission it still did not comply to the disclosure obligationthe court therefore awards de vrij 50 percent 45 million euros of what seg received for the deal between de vrij and inter the judges said