São Paulo pay Calleri’s ex-agent to avoid transfer ban | OneFootball

São Paulo acted quickly after suffering its second transfer ban in history and settled the debt it had with the agent Adrián Ruocco, who was responsible for bringing the forward Jonathan Calleri back to the club – currently, the player is represented by AIS Football.

The Tricolor states that it has already informed FIFA of the payment of $1.2 million (about R$ 6.3 million at the current exchange rate). Now, it awaits the football governing body to remove the club's name from the transfer ban, which prevents São Paulo from signing and registering new players until it resolves its issues.

FIFA is expected to process the Tricolor's payment on the morning of this Thursday (4th) and remove the São Paulo club's name from the debtor list by the end of this week, thus freeing São Paulo from this situation, which occurred for the second time this year.

In August, the club was placed on FIFA's 'defaulters list' for failing to pay the second installment to Cerro Porteño, from Paraguay, for the purchase of midfielder Bobadilla, amounting to $300,000 (R$ 1.6 million at the current exchange rate). On that occasion, the Tricolor paid the amount promptly on the same day of the notification and was removed from the 'dreaded list' in just one day.

Calleri returned to São Paulo in 2021, and the agent who managed his career at the time claims he never received the amounts promised by the Tricolor for brokering the deal for the Argentine forward. Thus, he approached FIFA for resolution.

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