Fernando Screpis claims that Hearts must pay him for the remaining three years of his contract.
Midfielder wants cancelled contract to be paid
Ousted Fernando Screpis claims that Hearts must pay him for the remaining three years of his contract.
The Argentinian has been told that he no longer has a future at Tynecastle and was left out of the club's travelling party for their pre-season trip to Germany.
He made just five appearances for the Jambos' first team after joining from Lithuanian side Kaunas in January.
Having reluctantly accepted his fate Screpis is now pursuing a pay-off from the SPL side, insisting that he penned a deal until 2011 on his arrival in Scotland.
Unfair
"Hearts are telling me my contract is cancelled," he told the
Evening News.
"According to the contract I signed last July I have three years left, so I am waiting for the club to contact me about this.
"I am sad to leave but I don't think I was given enough chances in the team. I don't think I was treated fairly.
"Anatoli Korobochka (former Hearts boss) treated me well but some others at the club did not.
"I find it strange that the new manager (Csaba Laszlo) only saw me play for less than 40 minutes but then I am told there is no place for me."
Absent
Screpis' agent is understood to have attempted to persuade Hearts officials to retain the midfielder, but to no avail.
The 29-year-old is not the only player to have found his future thrown into doubt, however, with Anthony Basso and Calum Elliot also absent from the training squad heading to Germany.
Keeper Basso appears to have fallen completely out of favour, while Elliot is understood to be attracting interest from Inverness Caledonian Thistle, among others.
