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Robin Koch was one of the players to join Leeds United during the last summer window and the centre-back arrived at Elland Road from SC Freiburg for a reported fee of around £13m.

The Germany international spent his youth career at Eintracht Trier, SV Dörbach and 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

As part of FIFA’s solidarity contribution rules, the three clubs were to benefit financially from the centre-back’s move to the Premier League.

Last week, Trierische Volksfreund and Der Betze Brennt explained Eintracht Trier and SV Dörbach have not received the money from Leeds United, despite repeated attempts to get it.

It was also stated the clubs have ‘already called a lawyer’ and ‘sent reminders’ to Marcelo Bielsa’s side.

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According to Volksfreund, Eintracht Trier received their payment from Leeds after involving lawyers.

“Immediately after our second letter from our lawyer, we received feedback from Leeds that we still had to hand in a document on letterhead of the association. We did that immediately, and now the money came,” Eintracht Trier branch manager Björn Berens said.

As per the report, the German side received the first payment of around €101,307.50 and two more instalments are due in September 2021 and 2022. Eintracht Trier are entitled to receive €300,000 from Koch’s move to Leeds.

Meanwhile, SV Dörbach haven’t received any money as of last weekend, but they are hopeful of receiving it this week.

“There was no money in the account on Saturday evening. I hope that it will be ready on Monday,” said Dörbach chairman Simon Berg.

Koch has made 11 starts in the league this season before picking up an injury against Chelsea in December.