Your employer, desperate to keep someone difficult to replace didn't offer compassionate leave, actually scratch that. If they had it would have been more similar to this case.
I also could be wrong but thought I had read, in more than one article, quotes from Aluko's "representatives" challenging the fact that we are due compensation. Regardless, if it wasn't what we, AFC, did for his career he definitely wouldn't have been given this (so called) opportunity. For that, we at least deserve some semblance of respect from the ungrateful, petulant little shit.