Chelsea could find themselves drawn into a legal dispute involving Barcelona and Unión Adarve as the latter seeks compensation for Marcos Alonso’s move to the Nou Camp.
Tele Madrid carry quotes from Adarve’s lawyer Jorge Vaquero today on the matter and how Chelsea’s own transfer business has led to the appeal from the Spanish side.
They explain that Adarve, a Madrid-based side in the Segunda RFEF, have ‘filed a complaint’ against Barcelona with FIFA.
They believe they should have received financial compensation for the ‘training rights’ of Alonso through FIFA’s solidarity scheme, which awards players’ training clubs a portion of transfer fees throughout their careers.
That would have been the case for Alonso, who was an Adarve player for two seasons between 2001 and 2005, but did not happen last summer as the Spanish defender moved to Barcelona from Chelsea on a free transfer.
Adarve argue that is not the case, though, and that there was actually a deal in place between the two sides, and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang’s arrival at Chelsea is proof as much.
“The player did not arrive free after leaving Chelsea as Barcelona maintains. We defend that there was an economic operation and that a small percentage corresponds to Adarve,” Vaquero is quoted as saying.
“We have managed to prove with enough evidence that this has been the case. For example, the low value of the operation of the player Aubameyang.
“(He) arrived at Chelsea from Barcelona for 12 million euros, which is an amount that if you look at the transfer market for this type of player with his trajectory, is a fairly low amount.
“Another indication is that the Chelesea manager stopped fielding Marcos Alonso for a whole month until he joined Barcelona. The coach said that the player had asked to leave and that Chelsea had respected the player’s wish.”
