Corinthians pay second instalment, clear Matías Rojas debt in full

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·6 January 2026

Corinthians pay second instalment, clear Matías Rojas debt in full

By Vinícios Cotrim | Central do Timão Editorial Team

This week, Corinthians made the deposit of the second and final installment of a debt with midfielder Matías Rojas, who played for the club between July 2023 and March 2024. The total amount of the payments was approximately R$ 41.2 million. The information comes from journalist Pedro Ramiro.

With this payment, Corinthians received a ‘discount’ of R$ 6 million related to interest and charges, from a debt that stood at R$ 47 million with the player. In this way, the amount was reduced to about R$ 41 million. The first payment was made last week.

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Still last year, Corinthians had been sentenced in the final instance by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for a debt of more than R$ 40 million with the player. If the payment was not made and no agreement was reached with the player’s staff, the club from Parque São Jorge could have faced a new transfer ban from FIFA.

It’s worth remembering that, currently, the People’s Team has been prevented – since August 2025 – from registering new players due to a debt of approximately R$ 40 million with Santos Laguna, from Mexico, for the acquisition of defender Félix Torres in January 2024. The duration of the punishment is three transfer windows.

Matías Rojas arrived at Corinthians in July 2023, as a signing under the management of Duílio Monteiro Alves (2021-2023), after a standout spell at Racing, in Argentina. At the time, the contract stipulated the payment of R$ 8 million (1.66 million dollars) as a signing bonus, paid in three installments to the player.

However, the club did not fulfill its commitments and, at the beginning of 2024, the Paraguayan took the case to FIFA, claiming non-payment of image rights, even after the agreement was renegotiated at the start of Augusto Melo’s administration (January 2024), which was also not honored. He requested all the amounts he would be entitled to receive until the end of his contract, which was set to expire in 2027.

In June 2024, Corinthians was ordered in the first and later in the second instance to make the aforementioned payments to the player. For Corinthians, the Paraguayan midfielder had an unremarkable stint, playing only 30 times, scoring no goals, and providing just two assists.

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