Spain and Portugal’s soccer leagues filed a complaint to the European Commission challenging a FIFA ban on clubs selling the transfer rights of players to investors, three people familiar with the situation said.
The European Commission received a complaint related to FIFA plans to stop so-called third-party ownership, spokesman Ricardo Cardoso said yesterday, without identifying who filed the document. Soccer ruling body FIFA will ban TPO starting May 1 amid concerns investors may interfere in the $4 billion player-trading market.
Spanish and Portuguese league officials traveled to Brussels to lodge the complaint, the people said. They asked not to be identified because the leagues still need to complete the submission of other documentation. The leagues are receiving assistance from lawyers including Jean-Louis Dupont, two of the people said.
Atletico Madrid, the Spanish champion, and Porto, a two-time European title winner, are among teams from the south of the continent that have turned to TPO deals since the financial crisis began in 2008. Banks including Bankia SA have reined in their overdraft facilities to all but the biggest clubs because of tighter credit rules.
In a TPO deal, investors might acquire 50 percent of a player’s transfer rights from a club in return for half of any transfer fee when he is traded. Doyen Sports, part of a closely held London hedge fund, has done more than $100 million of such deals since 2010, according to the unit’s Chief Executive Officer Nelio Lucas.
Bosman Ruling
Dupont, who declined to comment, is also representing Brussels-based player agent Daniel Striani in seeking to overturn European soccer ruling body UEFA’s so-called Financial Fair Play rules that seek to stop clubs spending more than they earn.
The Belgian lawyer is best known for successfully overturning rules on player transfers in 1995 on behalf of Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman.
Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil said in an interview last year that alternative financing had allowed his club to compete with richer rivals including Real Madrid and Barcelona, two of the world’s biggest clubs by sales.
In 2008, the English Premier League, soccer’s richest by sales, banned TPO after West Ham ceded control of Argentina striker Carlos Tevez to investment companies domiciled in the British Virgin Islands.
Bloomberg BusinessThe European Commission received a complaint related to FIFA plans to stop so-called third-party ownership, spokesman Ricardo Cardoso said yesterday, without identifying who filed the document. Soccer ruling body FIFA will ban TPO starting May 1 amid concerns investors may interfere in the $4 billion player-trading market.
Spanish and Portuguese league officials traveled to Brussels to lodge the complaint, the people said. They asked not to be identified because the leagues still need to complete the submission of other documentation. The leagues are receiving assistance from lawyers including Jean-Louis Dupont, two of the people said.
Atletico Madrid, the Spanish champion, and Porto, a two-time European title winner, are among teams from the south of the continent that have turned to TPO deals since the financial crisis began in 2008. Banks including Bankia SA have reined in their overdraft facilities to all but the biggest clubs because of tighter credit rules.
In a TPO deal, investors might acquire 50 percent of a player’s transfer rights from a club in return for half of any transfer fee when he is traded. Doyen Sports, part of a closely held London hedge fund, has done more than $100 million of such deals since 2010, according to the unit’s Chief Executive Officer Nelio Lucas.
Bosman Ruling
Dupont, who declined to comment, is also representing Brussels-based player agent Daniel Striani in seeking to overturn European soccer ruling body UEFA’s so-called Financial Fair Play rules that seek to stop clubs spending more than they earn.
The Belgian lawyer is best known for successfully overturning rules on player transfers in 1995 on behalf of Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman.
Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil said in an interview last year that alternative financing had allowed his club to compete with richer rivals including Real Madrid and Barcelona, two of the world’s biggest clubs by sales.
In 2008, the English Premier League, soccer’s richest by sales, banned TPO after West Ham ceded control of Argentina striker Carlos Tevez to investment companies domiciled in the British Virgin Islands.
A queixa foi apresentada por representantes oficiais da liga espanhola e portuguesa que viajaram a Bruxelas para apresentar a denúncia. Esses representantes, de acordo com a notícia, pediram para não ser identificados porque ainda precisam concluir a apresentação de mais documentação.
As ligas estão receber assistência de advogados, incluindo Jean-Louis Dupont. que também está representar um empresário de jogadores, Daniel Striani, na tentativa de derrubar o Fair Play Financeiro imposto pela UEFA. O advogado belga é conhecido por ter feito vingar a lei Bosman.
Agora recordem estas declarações de Jorge Mendes há uns dias:
«É ilegal, completamente ilegal, ilegal, ilegal, as duas coisas são ilegais.
A maioria das pessoas nem sabe do que está a falar. Não têm o direito de impedir um jogador de encontrar um emprego melhor e é isso que estão a fazer. Estão a impedi-los e isso não é lega
Esta é a forma de ajudar clubes mais pequenos. O Benfica e o FC Porto, por exemplo, não recebem mais de €18 milhões da TV e em Inglaterra um clube pequeno recebe €80 milhões. Isto mata a competição. Em Espanha o Atlético Madrid nunca teria sido campeão, impossível! Querem uma competição apenas entre Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern e Manchester United?
Com um milhão por cento de certeza que em tribunal as decisões serão travadas. Se sou presidente de um clube e quero gastar o meu dinheiro a contratar jogadores, vão impedir-me. É completamente estúpido.»
in A Bola
O Mendes está a ver o chão a fugir debaixo dos pés, à escala global, tal como o Oliveira estava a ver o mesmo à escala nacional.
Agora recordem estas declarações de Jorge Mendes há uns dias:
«É ilegal, completamente ilegal, ilegal, ilegal, as duas coisas são ilegais.
A maioria das pessoas nem sabe do que está a falar. Não têm o direito de impedir um jogador de encontrar um emprego melhor e é isso que estão a fazer. Estão a impedi-los e isso não é lega
Esta é a forma de ajudar clubes mais pequenos. O Benfica e o FC Porto, por exemplo, não recebem mais de €18 milhões da TV e em Inglaterra um clube pequeno recebe €80 milhões. Isto mata a competição. Em Espanha o Atlético Madrid nunca teria sido campeão, impossível! Querem uma competição apenas entre Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern e Manchester United?
Com um milhão por cento de certeza que em tribunal as decisões serão travadas. Se sou presidente de um clube e quero gastar o meu dinheiro a contratar jogadores, vão impedir-me. É completamente estúpido.»
in A Bola
O Mendes está a ver o chão a fugir debaixo dos pés, à escala global, tal como o Oliveira estava a ver o mesmo à escala nacional.
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