fixture is showing on the rfl website under referee appointments so it has been sanctioned. but still no news from the club.

Confirmed as Jason Demetriou

The BBC website says that York want a 5 figure sum in compensation

Aye, that's the official statement they've made. Apparently, because he'd already mentioned an interest in the Keighley job, JD had it written into his contract he could leave if it was offered to him. Plus, surely it's like a normal transfer even without that. Keighley would have had to give York money to 'buy' JD off them, then he gets announced as Keighley boss.
What's happened here seems to be that he's been released fairly, Keighley have him, now York are going to discuss how much money Keighley will give them...



Keighley will probably just give them an out of service phone number and get York to ring it

Agreed it is like normal transfer, but £10K????

Was he really worth that much to York? And when was the last time you heard of any transfer fee being involved at our level??

My main point being, this doesn't seem to be like a normal transfer. I.e Talks > Money > player sold > player arrives. The order of this all seems wrong.

Either way as you say, at least £10k. No way Jose.