Re: Eliaquim Mangala
To save you reading all whole report....This seems to be saying the issue(the hold up!) is with "Doyen Sports Investment" who own 33% of Mangala's rights.....Had to use google translate for the report...sorry! I'm getting to a point where we should just move on...Benatia still out there and we got plenty of room under the restrictions to spend whatever it takes to get a deal done.....
Mangala, D'Onofrio and blocked the transfer
Posted on August 7, 2014 by pipporusso
On July 12 the newspapers gave for sure one of the business transfer market most of the summer announced the passage of Eliaquim Mangala , central defender of the French National Assembly, from Porto to Manchester City .
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The boy, born in 1991, and Congolese origin, had just been at the home of Citizen to perform the medical examination . On the web circulates even a video of these visits , now retired. And in that moment, no one gives particular importance to this detail. What matters is the passage of the defender from the club to the Portuguese champions of the Premier. That in those days in mid-July is given for almost realized. Almost.
Infati happens that we start towards the middle of August, and then we approximate the start of the Premier, without the transfer of Eliaquim Mangala at Manchester City has been achieved. At this time the player is in a limbo. He did not do the pre-season preparation with Porto, the club for which the player belongs to history. But he has not even done with the Citizen , because he is not yet registered. Possible? Yes, you can. And the reason for the lack of agreement is explained by a formula that continues to sound too far-fetched: there is no agreement with the third parties who are co-owners of his economic rights. Here's the rub. And from here the story that I do, about the way in which it develops the parallel economy of global football. That is, the system of interest and collusion that is allowing a class of subjects emptying economic, political and moral football. Everything, as usual, behind the audience of fans who continue to invest passion and money to feed their faith.
For anyone involved in football beyond the superficial, the last days of 2011, the figure is Eliaquim Mangala together with that of Steven Defour (Belgian midfielder born 1988), one of the most controversial of European football.
A horse of August of the same year he had collected from the Port Standard Liege , spending 6.5 million for the first and 6 for the second . The figures are reported in the statement given to the authority of the Portuguese vigilianza on the bag, Comiss ã or do Mercado de Valores Mobiliarios (CMVM) , as is mandatory for all clubs listed. Both players are tied to the Portuguese club with a five-year contract (expires June 30, 2016), and set a buyout clause of 50 million. So far everything is smooth. But things take to go a little 'less regularly when on December 27, at the height of the festive season, Porto sends a new notification to the CMVM . It was announced that the club has sold a third of the economic rights of Defour and Mangala to a person who only two months earlier had appeared on the scene in spectacular fashion La Liga: The Doyen Sports Investments . In Spain, the brand had suddenly appeared as secondary sponsor on the shirts of some clubs in the Premier League , and at the same time it was rumored that his agents were raking the rights of Spain's most promising young players.
In the case of the agreement with the Port, however, Doyen ensures 33.33% of the amount that will be checked from the future sale of the two players. The statement of the CMVM informs that for a third of the rights of Mangala, the fund paid € 2,647,059, while the equivalent rights of Defour has paid EUR 2,352,941. And while these figures bring out one fact: the assessments of the two players are inflated compared to the figures from the Port paid to buy them. The value of Mangala grows to nearly 1.5 million, from 6.5 to 7,941,177; Defour to salt than a million and broken, from 6 to 7,058,823. The immediate effect is that, on balance, the Port, the two players are re-evaluated for a total of 2.5 million euro. He was later a similar toys that exploded in 2007 the subprime mortgage bubble, but football pretends not to know. And that's not all. Why is the press release sent from the port on 27 December contains another curious information. In addition to having alienated 33.33% to Doyen Sports Investments, the Port grants an additional 10% of the economic rights on the two players to an agency called Robi Plus . And to make an impression is that in this case there is no equivalent for the sale: the Portuguese club is free free 10% discount on future collections, and remains the owner of a little more than half (56.67% to be exact) of the economic rights on two players acquired only four months earlier. How so? And above all: what Robi Plus?
Soon said. It is a company with registered office in London, whose sole director turns out to be a Ticino, Maurizio Delmenico. That according to an article published in 2013 by the Belgian head SudInfo is part of the boards of directors of more than 400 companies around the world. As I say in my Goals robbery. The dark side of global football , if this gentleman had a jag for every seat he occupies, his ass would be an accordion.
But it is evident that Delmenico is only a technical finance and corporate law, and that certainly can not be the one to draw certain strategies from global broker of football. And in fact running the show in the shadows is a character much more depth. It is Luciano D'Onofrio (also known as Licio or Lucien), until a few years ago one of the bosses of the market of world football, then "officially" out of the loop .
Italian Castelforte (Latina), D'Onofrio is also holds a Belgian passport. In Belgium, the young Luciano emigrated with the family following his father, who found work in the mines. D'Onofrio was player of mediocre level. A very different significance his career as a players' agent and sports executive. Agent took care of the interests of players such as Zinedine Zidane, Alen Boksic, André Cruz, Marcel Desailly, Didier Deschamps. From executive was vice president of Standard Liege until 2011 Just the year in which the Belgian club gives Mangala and Defour to Porto. D'Onofrio has had several problems with the law . The list is long. A sentence is significant that in two years, including 18 months' probation, for embezzlement carried out between 1997 and 1999 on certain transfers of players from Olympique Marseille operated. A conviction at first instance and upheld on appeal. It awaits the verdict of the Supreme Court French, but in the meantime, D'Onofrio and Delmenico ended up at the center of an investigation into money laundering . These operations are carried out by the Standard Liege. What is a club from the controversial history, and finds himself presently under the control of a character even more controversial: Roland D û chatelet . For he will speak again. As for D'Onofrio and Delmenico, the Belgian daily Le Soir reconstructs the impressive network of offshore companies . A document that testifies more than most what the football today. A world infected by a parallel economy, a huge gray area between legality and illegality.
As a result of various scandals and convictions that hit him, D'Onofrio has lost his license as an agent. He claims to have shed, other sources speak of radiation . In fact, his background is in conflict with Article 6 of the FIFA regulations on agents, which will require "impeccable reputation" . It's not really the case.
The mysterious case of Mangala and Defour deals with an episode of Cash Investigation , program of investigation of the television network France 2 .'s episode is titled Foot business: enqu ê yourself sur une omerta (below you can find the links to see the whole episode ).
The journalist Elise Lucet try to cross D'Onofrio to give him a cardboard silhouette of Mangala.
And that, in response, you look ridiculous running away like a thief in the streets of Antwerp .
There is no certainty, but is likely to be this gentleman here to delay the passage of Mangala to Manchester City. Meanwhile, the self-styled experts in the transfer market continue to go beyond, to connivance or gross ignorance. And the ideologues of modernization football insist that this is the future, and we must all be happy customer of this business.
PS These days the Naples tries to buy Marouane Fellaini , the Belgian Manchester United. According to some media reports the club's sporting director blue, Riccardo Bigon would have met in recent days, a qualified person as the ' agent of the player. What do you call this? Luciano D'Onofrio.