Levinton: Unión sold Malcorra to Tijuana, but I was never paid | OneFootball

Sergio Levinton, owner of Ignacio Malcorra's transfer rights, spoke on ADN GOL about the payment of 50% of Nacho's transfer when he was sold from Unión to Tijuana.

The truth is, on Friday, after they called me to potentially do this interview and so on, well, all the information came out, because, well, the information came out in Santa Fe, and they started calling, and I always, honestly, have always been very respectful with journalists, with the media, especially those from Santa Fe, who have treated me very well throughout my 25-year career, right? So, well, there was a change, going back to your question, the truth is there wasn't any, they just told me, even the lawyer mentioned comments, that he made a comment before the match, well, I'm the club president, but nothing, on the contrary, if I had to say, I would say that it would be one, he continues with his denial, continues to cover the sun with his hands, and well, it's fine, it's a policy the president chose, for 10 years, when he should have fulfilled something he didn't, and the surprised one, said he was surprised by the ruling and so on, I'm surprised that I waited 10 years for a ruling that should be very clear, it shouldn't have taken more than a year or two with all the documentation that was presented, but well, you said, justice is slow.

The reality is that, no, the lawyers, each has their own lawyers, and the lawsuit was unified, we initiated a lawsuit against Unión in Santa Fe, and it was unified because there was, let's say, the first part, one of the parties involved was Aldosivi, and Nacho himself, at the time we had asked to desist, because we didn't consider, although he was a witness to all the papers that were signed, he was completely removed, the judge considered that he had to be somewhat responsible for everything, we had asked to desist from that because we considered that the player at the time didn't have the responsibility for the clubs' failure to pay, for the agreements that were signed, when the first Aldosivi deal was made in Unión, and then the sale from Unión to Tijuana in Mexico. No, they are not the same, and the amount is half the value, which is 375, which we said is half the value that was officially recorded in the sale from Unión to Tijuana, plus interest, the costs obviously, apart from the lawyers' fees, the percentage established to pay the lawyers, what this brings is more than 10 years of interest, it's quite a lot, I would say it's 80% more, at the time I had mentioned 50, but here it is 80% of the value, and it's a first-instance ruling, yes, it's signed in the first instance, they have the possibilities, more than if they appealed the ruling, now the time will eventually come to show and always open intention, well, the people from Aldosivi also have a sentence, and they have a debt and so on, but well, the lawyer from Aldosivi, the president of Andocidi, called me, we talked, we reached an agreement that will surely be signed before the end of October, and on Unión's side, yes, there were conversations, not mine but my lawyers', with one of the club's lawyers, who stayed with the president and conveyed the fact that if they were going to go to the Chamber, there is the possibility of settling it, if they go to the Chamber, well, the interest will continue to accrue and then it will be worse, and already with a firm Chamber ruling, there is no turning back, it is like that because they will have to pay, the truth is that the only thing I want is to pay, I don't want to harm a club, I don't want to harm anything, I want what was signed to be fulfilled and it took 10 years to get that ruling.

Bragarnik has nothing to do with it more than an ethical and moral issue as a representative, if he somehow has a responsibility towards me as a colleague, then I could say that undoubtedly there were damages and losses with his actions in that movement, but not officially, because I can't claim from a representative for taking charge of a player or another player that was mine and so on, it's an internal issue that has nothing to do with the lawsuit itself, nor with the deal being claimed, nor sold. After how it was sold and so on is an issue eventually between Bragarnik and Unión.

The one who signed for me was not Bragarnik, the one who signed for me is Unión, where we made all the agreements and knew perfectly well how the agreement was, and you can actually sell 50% and the federative rights. So I ask you, if I took charge of a player at a time when businessmen could take charge of a player's economic rights, that was until 2015, and you actually bought the player in 2012 on Comodoro Rivadavia street, you have all the papers, you invested and everything, and all the clubs to which you are transferring, that is, between the clubs rather, you are all selling 50%, an example I tell you, the player reaches an age like Nacho is now for example, and I never got paid because everyone sold 50%, they substituted the right to be using the player, so everyone buys 50, leaves the other 50 and it's not like that, there is also a regulation. And it would actually be very good for you to go see there in Tijuana if the 50% was really registered with the Mexican Football Federation, because it's not like that, they took charge of the whole player, so where are the papers eventually that a child says he sold 50%, and yet if he sold 50% he never consulted me if I agreed with the value of that sale, and at that time and whatever, it also said that yes or yes I had to decide, because I owned 50%, do you understand? Nothing was ever consulted, nothing was ever done, they did everything wrong, they did everything wrong not to pay, it's that simple.

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