According to this report out of Romania, Canadian international Tosaint Ricketts and a number of his teammates filed paperwork Thursday with the local federation to be released from their contracts with FC Politehnica Timişoara
The move comes, the players state, after they did not receive any wages for four months.
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Ricketts was on a 3-year-contract with FC Politehnica Timişoara, which he began in late 2010, and the club was showing well, earning a Champions League birth last season and promotion to Romania's first division. Ricketts too was showing well, accumulating seven goals with 17 starts in all competitions.
Perhaps a sign of what was to come though, the team was denied entry into the Champions League and remained in division two after they were declared financially unable. It is expected that the club will continue its fall and will declare itself a not-for-profit team by the end of the year.
Ricketts, who has been a regular for the Canadians during the latest World Cup qualifying, scored his first international goal in 2011, notching a stoppage time equalizer against Ecuador.
He wasn't able to be reached for comment but he did take to Twitter late Thursday to seemingly confirm the news.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Monkeys out of the bottle son...</p>— Tosaint Ricketts (@TosaintRicketts) <a href="
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