Three and a half years after selling Marcos Rojo to Manchester United, Portuguese club Sporting have finally received the money for the transfer.
As reported by newspaper O Jogo today, the Lions have finally got €6.1m from the sale, even though they thought they had the right to receive a lot more.
The other part has gone do the Doyen Investment Group, who was the owner of the defender’s economical rights a little bit before the transfer.
This last process was running in the court since the last summer, and it’s UEFA who puts an end to the whole fight that has been going on for all these years.
The mess started in 2012, when Marcos Rojo was transferred from Spartak Moscow to Sporting. The Portuguese club paid €4m for the deal, having agreed with Doyen Sports that the company would keep 75% of the player’s economic rights.
Rojo was sold to Manchester United for €20m in 2014, and according to newspaper A Bola, Sporting understood they only had to pay Doyen €4.5m. But, clearly, third-party companies aim to make money out of deals they largely fund, so they obviously didn’t let it pass. Now Doyen got €11m from the deal.
