UEFA ban on footballers owned by third parties to affect Besiktas’ funding plans of youngsters and transfers
As UEFA confirms Champions – and Europe League bans on players owned by third parties, plans on funding-based transfers and ownership of promising youngsters of Besiktas Chairman Demiroren and prominent footballers agent Jorge Mendes fail.
Nyon / NationalTurk – Uefa’s general secretary Gianni Infantino stresses UEFA’s readiness to take action against third parties owning players rights for future transfers.
Uefa has considered and finally confirmed it will ban all players from the Champions League and Europe League whose transfer rights are owned by third parties.
UEFA reregulates third party ownership of players
Gianni Infantino, the general secretary of European football’s governing body, stated the ownership of footballers by third parties via fundings and not the associated clubs themselves could not be allowed to continue hence Uefa regards this kind of player ownership as a growing threat.
Third party ownership of footballers is already outlawed in the Premier League and France’s Ligue 1 while Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Turkey clubs use third party partners which own complete rights of footballers.
Executives from France and England have already complained to Uefa that clubs could use such investments to circumvent financial fair play regulations as Fifa’s rules do not prohibit investors buying stakes in footballers, providing they have no control over when they can play or when they are being transferred to other clubs.
The Premier League stands firmly agains third-party ownership with an official statement that said “Third party ownership threatens the integrity of competitions, reduces the flow of transfer revenue contained within the game and has the potential to exert external influences on players’ transfer decisions”. The decision was made after controversial Tevez and Mascherano transfers in 2007.
Besiktas has more than a few third party ownership and funding deals with star agent Jorge Mendes
UEFA’s decision on third party ownership of players affects Turkish giants Besiktas significantly. Besiktas chairman Yıldırım Demiroren and prominent player agent Jorge Mendes’s agency Gestifute have been considering cutting deals after deals for transfers and ownership of Besiktas’s young talents Muhammed Demirci, Necip Uysal, Atınc Nukan as Besiktas chairman Yildirim Demiroren needed more and more funding for the big signings of Almeida, Simao Sabrosa etc. Besiktas can face a threat of transfer ban apllied by FIFA.
Besiktas board and chairman Yıldırım Demirören had stirred a confusion in the Turkish sport press by signing Hugo Almeida in the previous transfer mid-season from Werder Bremen for 2 Mil. Euro by letting an Ireland based funding company ‘ISC Football’ be the financial sponsor of the deal. Later it was revealed that the company belonged to Jorge Mendes, a prominent agent in European soccer, agent of footballers such Christiano Ronaldo or managers like Jose Mourinho.
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