diff --git a/fifa17-recon/tools/test_fut_contract.py b/fifa17-recon/tools/test_fut_contract.py
index 0c856f3..7e89cb1 100644
--- a/fifa17-recon/tools/test_fut_contract.py
+++ b/fifa17-recon/tools/test_fut_contract.py
@@ -436,12 +436,58 @@ def test_club_rename_roundtrip():
               repr((ui.get("clubName"), ui.get("clubAbbr"))))
 
 
+def test_move_verdict_shape():
+    """PUT /item must return per-item VERDICT records. This guards the fix for the
+    project's longest-lived bug.
+
+    FutMoveCard's deserializer does not parse an acknowledgement, it builds a vector
+    of verdict records, and the completion handler raises
+    EVENT_CARDS_MOVE_CARD_FAILURE when that vector is EMPTY or when a record's
+    success byte (record+0x0c) is not 1. For seven attempts this endpoint answered
+    {}, an echo of the moved cards, or a dreamSquads stub, and every one of them told
+    the client the move had failed, so the client killed the FUT session. It looked
+    like a client-state bug for weeks because the HTTP status was always 200.
+
+    That failure mode is silent at the transport layer, which is exactly why it needs
+    a contract test: nothing else in this suite would notice a regression to {}.
+
+    NON-MUTATING. It asks to move ids that cannot exist, so no item changes pile. The
+    verdicts therefore come back success=false, which is the honest answer and is not
+    what is being asserted here. What is asserted is the SHAPE and the RECORD COUNT,
+    because an empty vector fails the client just as hard as a wrong flag.
+    """
+    ghosts = [{"id": 999000001, "pile": "club", "swap": 0, "tradeId": 0},
+              {"id": 999000002, "pile": "club", "swap": 0, "tradeId": 0}]
+    code, body = _req("PUT", G + "/item", {"itemData": ghosts})
+    check("PUT /item -> 200", code == 200, repr(code))
+    check("PUT /item body is an object", is_obj(body), repr(body))
+    recs = body.get("itemData") if is_obj(body) else None
+    check("PUT /item returns itemData array (NOT {} -- {} reads as move-failed)",
+          is_arr(recs), repr(body)[:120])
+    if not is_arr(recs):
+        return
+    check("PUT /item returns one record per requested item",
+          len(recs) == len(ghosts), "%d records for %d items" % (len(recs), len(ghosts)))
+    for i, r in enumerate(recs):
+        check("record[%d] is an object" % i, is_obj(r), repr(r))
+        if not is_obj(r):
+            continue
+        # id(0x15c) INT via 0x1801c79d0 -- a string here desyncs the reader
+        check("record[%d].id is a number" % i, is_num(r.get("id")), repr(r.get("id")))
+        # pile(0x226) STRING via 0x1801c7aa0 -> enum 0x180142650
+        check("record[%d].pile is a string" % i, is_str(r.get("pile")), repr(r.get("pile")))
+        # success(0x2fa) BOOL via 0x1801c7620 -> record+0x0c
+        check("record[%d].success is a bool" % i, isinstance(r.get("success"), bool),
+              repr(r.get("success")))
+
+
 def main():
     tests = [test_credits, test_v2_store_gate, test_store_catalog, test_market_bodies,
              test_auction_record_shape, test_squad_boot, test_squad_list_shape,
              test_squad_list_endpoint, test_massinfo_shape, test_club_items,
              test_identity_consistency, test_club_user_shape, test_club_info_shape,
-             test_accountinfo_shape, test_club_rename_roundtrip]
+             test_accountinfo_shape, test_club_rename_roundtrip,
+             test_move_verdict_shape]
     try:
         _get(G + "/user/credits")
     except Exception as e: