Fluminense are owed cash by three foreign clubs, says Bittencourt

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·1 September 2026

Fluminense are owed cash by three foreign clubs, says Bittencourt

Fluminense has outstanding amounts to receive from three foreign clubs, Mário Bittencourt revealed in an interview with the Pelada Musical podcast on the Corredor 5 YouTube channel. According to the executive, the debts mainly refer to player transfer deals and percentages that belong to Tricolor in future transfers.

According to Mário, one of the cases reached FIFA, with the debtor club being punished with a transfer ban after failing to comply with agreements made to settle the debt. The executive also detailed an old debt involving Boavista, from Portugal.

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There are three clubs outside Brazil that owe Fluminense a lot of money, for player purchases, percentages we are entitled to, even small sale amounts that we never received. We went to FIFA, the club has a transfer ban, it has already made an agreement three times, it doesn’t pay us and continues under a transfer ban

Mário explained that the Boavista case predates his administration and that Fluminense even won the dispute at football’s highest governing body. Even so, three agreements were breached by the Portuguese club, which later entered bankruptcy proceedings.

We have a debt that isn’t even from my administration, it’s from the administration before mine, involving a club from Portugal that bought one of our players and never paid. We won the case at FIFA, made three agreements and they broke all three. The club went bankrupt and we will never receive that money, which is from Boavista of Portugal

The debt mentioned by the executive is related to the transfer of Paulinho, completed in June 2019 during Pedro Abad’s administration. The forward left Fluminense for Boavista, with Tricolor retaining a percentage of any future sale.

In 2021, Paulinho was transferred by the Portuguese club to Al-Shabab, from Saudi Arabia. He currently plays for Internacional and also had a spell at Vasco.

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