Quote (WNxIrvine @ 4 Jun 2015 10:50)
Iso babel fish. On phone it's pain in the ass :(
The FC Barcelona can look back on numerous successes when it comes to players from South America . Be it the Tridente , that currently sends with Luis Suarez , Lionel Messi and Neymar on the square or legends like Rivaldo or Ronaldinho .
Barca and South America, that fits. Players speak mostly Spanish and soon find themselves in the multicultural troupe cope. They are technically well trained and come quickly, even in the city of Barcelona to.
A spare Alves from Brazil
This contrasts with - of course - with a few exceptions. No club has an immaculate vest when it comes to purchases. Especially not when the new come from another continent. In the case of Douglas, another flop seems to pave the way.
But something is different in the transfer of rights defender from FC Sao Paulo. 5.5 million euros put Barca for the young Brazilian on the table, earning head shaking. No other club was interested in Douglas, who had not even brought it in the Brazilian league on regular assignments as a regular player.
He soon was appointed announced Alves spare. Perhaps, as the general opinion, the FC Barcelona have tracked a diamond in the rough, no one else had on the screen.
Douglas is a cult figure
Months later must be stated is that Douglas has not grown to the level of the FC Barcelona. Despite some half-hearted defense attempts by Luis Enrique, the Brazilian was so far only in four games in the square. In no single he left a lasting impression.
Sad result of his previous time in Catalonia: he has become a figure of fun among the fans. What's Nicklas Bendtner in Germany, Douglas is in Spain. The player will not blame you: Who has the chance to go to Barcelona, who take normally - the more so if this commitment to get as the Virgin with the child.
Henrique and Keirrison
Who has to answer the previously used 236 minutes, it soon becomes clear. The athletic leadership around former president Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu wanted the Brazilians necessarily. Three high-ranking employees of the club were sent to South America to secure the deal.
This begs the question of why , but Rosell had fulminated even when he took office to the new arrivals from overseas overpriced . He even announced an investigation into the transfer of Henrique and Keirrison . Both predecessor Joan Laporta had committed for a total of nearly 50 million euros . None of them ever attended a game for the Catalans .
Traffic and big business
One result was out , only to settle again years later the almost same transfer . As Henrique and Keirrison comes also the Douglas factory club Desportivo Brasil Ltda . This in turn is part of Traffic , the most powerful agency in the Brazilian football . Traffic not only has its own club , but holds a substantial portion of the TV rights , published broadcasts and newspapers and is extremely active in the player market .
Desportivo Brasil trains players to make them leave at the age of 18 years. Most of Palmeiras, which has entered into an agreement to settle 80 percent of transfers among themselves. Will players be resold, traffic is continuing shares, usually 40 percent. So even years after that huge sums of money flow towards Academia Traffic de Futbol, the nearly 12.5 acre training academy.
"We are businessmen"
The interest is correspondingly large, resell players from their own offspring at clubs in Europe. "We are businessmen. We are interested in only the profit," stated Vice-President Rodolfo Canavesi towards 11Freunde bluntly. Around 25,000 euros annually costs the education of a player, the money has to be earned again.
Has found an ally in one case FC Barcelona, respectively in Cury Andre. This is Player Agent in Brazil and a close friend of ex-president Sandro Rosell. The two met when Rosell was still working for the Brazilian division of Nike. The contact was never broken off.
Cury occurs in appearance
2012 Cury was suddenly staff of FC Barcelona, he joined the completed Neymar-obligation first appearance. He was the one who advised to the Catalans to remit in advance ten million euros to Santos to prevent a transfer to Real Madrid.
He is now officially America officer of the club and thus responsible for the transfer of Douglas, as he previously the Deals einfädelte as a freelancer with Henrique and Keirrison, then. Even as Director of Traffic
The FC Barcelona was awarded three times a player who seemed to fit into the picture. With Henrique a structure safe defender, with Keirrison reigning top scorer of Brazil, with Douglas a player on the problem position. In theory, because sport could help no one of those named.
Traffic strengthened its position and gave his players a certain reputation. Anyone who has been at FC Barcelona, who continues to find an employer.
Determined prosecutor
It fits into the overall picture that the Spanish public prosecutor's office, according to various media reports, among other things, of Cadena Ser, investigation has commenced. The transfer of Douglas should not be clean, apparently disappeared around 6.5 million euros on the way to Brazil.
Atair Gil Guerreiro, president of Sao Paulo FC, had announced to have completed one of the most expensive transfers of the history of Brazil. With the estimated twelve million euros from the state to Douglas would be located at least among the top 20, with the specified by the club 5.5 million not even among the 100 status.
The backgrounds make clear why Douglas has not yet taken root. He never got to play. He is only the victims of his own great dream and shady transfer mechanisms that have maintained long feeder in football.
shitty translate ofc but i guess you get an idea
Quote (B4al @ 4 Jun 2015 10:53)
Well, they were prospects at the time of the signing. And its wrong.
Saviola costed us shitloads aswell (~ 15 mios) and imo was a flop too. Maxi López didn't cost much €6.2 million but also flop. Chygrynskiy aswell - 10 mio loss in a year. There are several flops in the barca transfer policy, but the more you go deep in the past the more you will find, recently club has done more than okay.
/care about spending 5mios on a brasilian that fails.
At least we didn't have HAMEZ, a 80 mios flop :lol:
the douglas transfer is still under investigation with 6,5 mio that disappered into thin air for example
what you post are the official figures that are simply wrong
fact is, you have a cartel of criminals at your club spending money in america to fill their own pockets
deal with it bro
This post was edited by ampoo on Jun 4 2015 03:59am