THE tribunal to decide the fee for Danny Ings is expected to take place at the end of next month, with Burnley chief executive David Baldwin describing the claim as "the biggest in history".

Ings left Turf Moor for Liverpool at the end of his Clarets contract last summer, after a year and 11 goals in the Premier League, having fired the club to promotion as top scorer the previous season.

The striker has since gone on to be capped by England, before suffering a ruptured cruciate knee ligament in training in October.

That injury will not affect the tribunal case, as it is based on compensation for his development at Turf Moor.

It is understood the Clarets are looking to achieve in the region of £8million-£10m, which would better the current record of £6.5m that Chelsea paid Manchester City for Daniel Sturridge in 2009.

Liverpool have yet to pay a penny for Ings, nine months after signing him, but during a fans’ forum Baldwin explained it was a long progress because of the magnitude of the case.

"In terms of the actual tribunal date the expectation is that it will be the end of April," he said.

"It could have been any time during March or April but availability of legal counsel for both parties has dictated that. They're on other cases and they're not just dealing with sports law.

"Our lawyer in particular is on a High Court case at the minute.

"In terms of the timeline the reason it's different to the ordinary is this tribunal claim will be the biggest in history.

"Ordinarily claims can be brought forward an dealt with in a matter of months, some claims generally at a greater level of £100,000-£200,000 tend to happen in the January after the season has re-started.

"The key to this was that we bring the claim against Liverpool therefore we had to prepare an extremely robust case.

"You're talking a documentation bundle of probably in excess of 400-500 pages with witness statements, evidence, analytics about player performance, the statement as to why we make a judgement as to what we believe the player is worth compared to what Liverpool want to offer.

"The simple answer is you get your ducks in a row and do the job right, they then have a right to respond - they have a period of 14 days to respond in writing. Because that fell around the Christmas period they asked for an extension and it was granted.

"As a result of the information they then provided back as a club we then had to counter with further information.

"That process runs on. Anyone who's gone to court in any normal civil matter will find it's months. But The key message on this one was, we could have rushed it through but we would have gone in without having a very robust case."