El Oporto admite que pagó 22 millones en comisiones por Falcao y Guarín
El Oporto cerró la campaña 2011-2012 con pérdidas de 33,5 millones de euros, según se desprende de las cuentas enviadas por el club a la Comisión del Mercado de Valores lusa. El club precisa que estos resultados no incluyen las ventas de Hulk ni de Álvaro Pereira este mismo verano, ni el fichaje de Jackson Martínez, pero sí los traspasos de Radamel Falcao al Atlético de Madrid (40 millones) y de Freddy Guarín (11) al Inter de Milán. De estas dos últimas operaciones se descuentan casi 22 millones en costes de transacción e intermediación, lo que deja el beneficio en 29 millones. En el caso del Tigre, casi la mitad de su traspaso se dedicó a pagar comisiones, entre ellas a Gestifute, empresa de Jorge Mendes, y a la compañía holandesa Orel B.V.
Comentários:
- 22 millones en comisiones... 11 para Pinto da Costa y 11 para Gil Marín... ¡Menudo abrazo se darían cuando cerraron el trato!
- Pinto da Costa = Don Corleone portugués. Los portistas le endiosan pero cuando se enteraren de lo que ha estafado al Oporto, van a fusilarlo seguro
Na Catalunha já sabem
“En la última champions caéron con Chelsea después de dos juegos donde han sido muy mejores. Este año ya han metido una manita al Real y en la liga Portuguesa si no fuera por una ya habitual protéccion de los colegiados al Oporto tendrían sido campeones, de bien largo”
Zubizarreta, Director Desportivo do Barcelona em declaraçãos à Antena 1 às 12:30 do dia 1/10/2012, confirmadas pelo jornalista Pedro Cid.
ANDRÉ VILAS BOAS
I have followed Chelsea for over 30 years. AVB has to be the worse manager to date. His communication skills being a major problem.
I think my feelings towards AVB's management skills can be summed up by that great song from the Moody Blues.... GO NOW...!
AVB your time is up my friend. You did well at a club that would have the same results without a manager. You just 'hung around' for a season then took massive credit for the doings of others. You now find yourself in the EPL where you have to know what you are doing and do that same thing properly. It's time you went elsewhere and finish your apprenticeship before you take on the job of a qualified person.
AVB has lost the plot. The senior players are rightly showing desent towards him. No one seems happy. Impossible to recover from the current position. Bring back Mourinho is the only answer and Abramavich has to sell out.
He is just a show off that's all this AVB.
"They complain he is arrogant, aloof and uncommunicative. They claim he is out of his depth and tactically inept.
And that he names his team but does not give any proper instructions or even volunteer any sort of game-plan."
If this is true, then he has got to be the worst manager. This is his basic duty. He needs to have some love for the club.
That's what you get when you want to buy titles, why the surprise........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Anelka reports are true then he needs to be sacked. In Chelsea you know once you lose the dressing room the manager usually gets the boot. Not the most healthy thing but this time i would back the players, for someone who was a critical part of the team when the club won the double; he should have had a normal send off - heck it was just a new year party.
Bloomberg, agência noticiosa benfiquista?
Segundo noticia a agência de notícias financeiras Bloomberg, a UEFA está a apelar às autoridades britânicas que investiguem dois fundos de investimento que ajudaram o FC Porto a contratar o brasileiro Walter da Silva, em 2010, por 6,2 milhões de euros. Na origem do apelo está a suspeita de que esses fundos possam servir para branqueamento de capitais.
A UEFA pediu às autoridades britânicas que investigassem as empresas For Gool Co. e Pearl Design Holding Ltd., sediadas no Reino Unido, e que financiaram parte da contratação de Walter pelo Porto, em 2010, por suspeita de branqueamento de capitais.
Segundo Sandalio Gomez, professor de Gestão do Desporto na Escola IESE, em Madrid, a deterioriação das condições apresentadas pelos bancos para empréstimos levam os clubes de futebol a procurar alternativas para o financiamento das contratações.
A UEFA teme agora que os dois fundos de investimento utilizados pelo Porto sejam "empresas fachada", já que a única informação que se sabe sobre eles é a sua morada no Reino Unido, desconhecendo-se por completo quais são os seus proprietários.
European Soccer Ruling Body Asks U.K. to Probe Funding of Porto Purchases, By Alex Duff and Tariq Panja - Jan 31, 2012)
European soccer ruling body UEFA is asking U.K. authorities to investigate two so-called letterbox companies that helped Porto (FCP) fund a player transfer.
For Gool Co. and Pearl Design Holding Ltd. provided finance for the two-time European champion to sign Brazilian striker Walter da Silva for 6.2 million euros ($8.1 million) in 2010, according to Porto’s latest quarterly statement.
As banks ratchet up lending requirements, soccer clubs are seeking alternative ways to raise funds, often in return for a share of a player’s future transfer fee, said Sandalio Gomez, who teaches sports management at IESE business school in Madrid. UEFA officials said this increases the risk of money laundering because it’s unclear who owns the letterbox companies, which have mailing addresses in the U.K. and seemingly nothing else.
“We are urging state authorities to look into it,” UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino said. “Because we are a private company, an association, we cannot go to a company when it is a letter box saying ‘please tell us who you are and what you’re doing.’ They will tell us: ‘Who are you to ask me?’”
Rochdale-based For Gool provided a 2 million-euro loan for Porto to sign Da Silva from Uruguay’s Club Atletico Rentistas and London-based Pearl Design bought 25 percent of the 22-year- old’s future transfer rights for 2.1 million euros, according to the Porto statement. Porto spokesman Rui Cerqueira didn’t return two e-mails and two telephone calls seeking comment.
Mark Quirk, a co-owner of For Gool’s parent company Kirkdelta Ltd., didn’t respond to letters sent to three business addresses on Jan. 11. Mario Queiroz, the only listed shareholder of Pearl Design, didn’t respond to an e-mail.
“Completely Hide”
U.K. law allows small businesses to “completely hide” from view what they’re doing, said Richard Murphy, director of Norfolk, England-based Tax Research LLP and co-author of 2009 book “Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works,” which describes how some companies conceal financial transactions.
“You can form a company to do a deal, say one football transfer, and then get rid of it almost straight away and never put any information on public record,” Murphy said. “If this was taking place offshore, it would probably be condemned.”
England’s Premier League and France Ligue 1 have outlawed shared ownership of players’ transfer rights over concerns clubs won’t have total control, allowing agents and other third parties to influence when a trade is made.
A company can set up a letterbox company in less than 10 minutes with a single director, Murphy said. It can file abbreviated accounts, assuming it has annual sales of less than 6.5 million pounds ($10.2 million) and fewer than 50 staff.
74 Companies
Quirk is a director of 21 U.K.-based companies and has resigned from 74 since 2005, records at London-based Companies Houseshow. Queiroz is director of 45 companies in the U.K. and 35 in Spain, including Spanish Fiscal Representation SL, according toCompanies House and Madrid-based Registro Mercantil.
Nominee directors, while not approved by British regulators, would be subject to the same laws as all company directors, the U.K.’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said in an e-mail. All companies registered in the country are subject to the same regulatory regime, the department said.
Another U.K. company, Robi Plus Ltd., owns 10 percent of the transfer rights of two Porto players, Eliaquim Mangala and Steven Defour, the team said in a Dec. 27 statement.
Robi Plus is a so-called bearer share company whose director is Maurizio Delmenico, according to Companies House filings. The holder of the share certificate of a bearer-share company is the recognized owner. It’s a way of shielding the ownership structure, Murphy said.
“Several Tools”
Delmenico, a player agent and tax adviser, said by telephone from his office in Lugano, Switzerland, that the company is his own and he set it up in the U.K. because some of its affairs, including brokering player trades, are based there.
U.K. authorities have “several tools” for identifying the owners of bearer-share companies that they regulate, the government said in an e-mail.
Stock market-listed Porto reported a profit in each of the past five fiscal years, partly by trading players it developed to bigger clubs. It had net income of 534,000 euros on sales of 89.8 million euros in the year ended June 30, according to a financial statement.
In the last two years, Porto sold part of the transfer rights for midfielder Joao Moutinho and striker James Rodriguez to Amsterdam-based Mamers BV and Luxembourg-based Gol Football Luxembourg SARL, respectively, according to a team statement for fiscal 2011.
“Out of Control”
Such funding deals are being sought by clubs that “need something in their coffers,” according to IESE professor Gomez, who co-wrote a 2009 study about Argentina’s River Plate selling player transfer rights to investors. “In principle this works, but you need to regulate it well or it could get out of control,” Gomez said.
Porto had bank loans of 24 million euros on June 30, the team statement said. The interest rate it paid for the loans increased to an average 7.1 percent from 6.5 percent in the six months to Sept. 30.
Letterbox companies raise the possibility of a conflict of interest, according to Andrea Traverso, UEFA’s head of club licensing. Traverso oversees so-called financial fair play rules that UEFA is introducing to stop clubs from overspending and also to increase transfer-market transparency.
“Who is actually controlling these players?” Traverso said. “Is it the club or the companies? It would be very interesting to know.”
FILOMENA ACUSA OFFSHORES
A 23 de Maio de 2011 Filomena Pinto da Costa (ex-mulher do presidente portista) disse o seguinte ao Correio da Manhã: «Tenho pena que os abutres que se têm vindo a aproveitar do meu clube, ao longo destes anos todos, irão continuar a encher os bolsos, com a venda dos passes dos jogadores, que agora valem muito mais. A todos conheço, um por um, há quase trinta anos! Como chegaram, como enriqueceram, e acreditem não é com trabalho árduo, infelizmente». Também foi apresentada uma queixa na Procuradoria-geral da República contra Pinto da Costa relativo ao alegado jantar com o árbitro do Porto - Villarreal.
As declarações de Filomena e a queixa na Procuradoria são gravíssimas mas ninguém quer saber. Nos jornais continua-se a especular sobre o Benfica, mais concretamente sobre o prémio de Jesus por vencer o campeonato e as transferência de Roberto e Júlio César, notícias essas lançadas muito provavelmente com o intuito branquear as situações anteriores. Luís Filipe Vieira foi à TVI esclarecer tudo apresentando documentos (isto de desmentir mentiras com factos devia ser proibido). O Benfica pagou directamente ao Belenenses 900 mil euros por Júlio César. Pagou 8,5 milhões de euros por Roberto directamente ao Atlético. E Jesus recebeu 573 mil euros por vencer o campeonato directamente do Benfica.
Luís Filipe Vieira desafiou ainda a Polícia Judiciária a investigar todas as transferências de Porto e Benfica nos últimos 10 anos. Disse ainda que alguns dirigentes desportivos tem enriquecido sem se saber como, ao contrário dele que nunca recebeu qualquer verba do clube, seja vencimento ou comissões.
Recorde-se que ainda recentemente o FC Porto comprou mais uma fatia do passe de Hulk (40%) por 13,5 milhões ao Rentistas da 2ª divisão do Uruguai. Vendeu também recentemente 37,5% do passe de João Moutinho por 4.1 milhões de euros à Mamers B.V, vendeu 35% do passe de James Rodriguez por 2.5 milhões de euros à Gol Football Luxembourg e 25% do passe de Walter por 2.1 milhões de euros à Pearl Design Holding Ltd. Relativamente ao Kléber recorde-se que apesar do Marítimo e Sporting oferecerem tanto ou mais do que o FC Porto pelo jogador, o Atlético Mineiro veio a público referir que a proposta dos azuis-e-brancos era muito mais vantajosa. Acerca desse caso o presidente do Marítimo questionou-se se haveria algum "saco azul". (InFutebol Live)
Testemunho
Trabalhei no Hotel Altis muitos anos e vi muitas vezes o sr. António Garrido com conversas curiosas com o Sr. Jorge Nuno.
Lembro-me uma vez em particular, num jogo com o Sporting em que ele chegou a meio da refeição (eu estava a servir a sopa) e chegando-se junto do presidente do Porto disse:
”Presidente, o sujeito está num hotel para os lados da Feira Popular”.
O PC entregando-lhe um envelope disse: “Aqui tens. Ele que não seja parvo e dê nas vistas”.
O Garrido retorqui:“Esteja descansado”.
Horas mais tarde, num directo na televisão vi o árbitro do jogo a sair do Hotel Continental em Lisboa (para quem não sabe muito proximo da Feira Popular).
O Porto ganhou 1 a zero num jogo em que o Sporting nem passava do meio campo tal eram as faltas marcadas para abrandar o ritmo de jogo e parar os contra ataques.
Como os Processos prescreviam
Jorge Fernando Teixeira, técnico de Justiça adjunto, de 45 anos, começou a ser julgado na segunda-feira, na 2.ª Vara Criminal do Porto, por 20 crimes de denegação de Justiça e 17 crimes de falsidade informática.
Os crimes de que é acusado, segundo o Ministério Público, começaram em 2004 e só terminaram em Junho de 2010.
Nessa altura o arguido trabalhava no Departamento Investigação e Ação Penal (DIAP) do Porto, no edifício da Rua da Constituição.
Na segunda-feira, no tribunal, manifestou o seu "profundo arrependimento" mas não deu grandes explicações sobre os motivos para tanto "desleixo", que acabou por provocar a prescrição de dezenas de processos.
Havia diligências processuais a cumprir para o andamento normal dos processos que Jorge Teixeira tinha a seu cargo mas, em muitos deles, nada fazia. E quando reparava que estavam ultrapassados os prazos, "mentia" ao sistema, ou seja, introduzia no computador dados falsos, com o objetivo confessado de "iludir" os seus superiores.»
(Fonte Jornal de Notícias)