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 owed to businessman Adrián Ruocco, who was responsible for bringing striker Jonathan Calleri back to the club – currently, the player is represented by AIS Football.

The Tricolor says 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 settles its outstanding debts.

FIFA is expected to process the Tricolor’s payment on Thursday morning (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 has happened for the second time this year.

In August, the club was placed on FIFA’s ‘list of defaulters’ 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 on the same day as the notification and was removed from the ‘cursed list’ in just one day.

Calleri returned to São Paulo in 2021, and the businessman who managed his career at the time claims he never received the amounts promised by the Tricolor for brokering the deal for the Argentine striker. As a result, he turned to FIFA for resolution.

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