Harriers pay Hednesford for Dunkley

Kidderminster Harriers have been ordered to pay an initial £5,000 for Cheyenne Dunkley under the terms of his summer transfer from Hednesford.

A Football Association tribunal also decreed that Harriers must shell out another £1,000 per time when he has played 10 and 20 first-team games.

Hednesford will also be entitled to 30 per cent of any transfer fee Harriers receive for selling on the 20-year-old defender as a final clause of the deal.

Dunkley was out-of-contract at Keys Park but the Pitmen were still able to claim a 'compensation fee' after offering a new deal, as he's under 24.

Harriers pocketed £2,500 under the same clause when Dan Bradley moved to Alfreton and will benefit from Dean Lyness' switch to Burton.

Chairman Mark Serrell said: "I think the outcome with Cheyenne is a satisfactory one for us as a football club.

"The ruling reflects quite closely on our own valuation of the player at this point in time."

Dunkley has yet to start for Harriers in the Blue Square Premier, with new captain Exodus Geohaghon and Ryan Austin preferred at centre-half.

Geohaghon and Austin will again be at the back in tomorrow's third match of the season at home to Mansfield, with Dunkley on the bench.

Harriers have lost their first two games, as have their visitors, and will again be without striker Steve Guinan and right-back Lee Vaughan.

Guinan is out with a twisted ankle and Vaughan sits out the third game of a four-match ban, for his sending off on the final day of the last campaign.