In Buenos Aires, Unión's bombshell for Racing, first revealed by Radio Gol | OneFootball

Santa Fe’s leadership detected irregularities in both deals and suspects that the Academy concealed at least two million dollars from the taxable base in the midfielder’s sale.

Unión ran out of patience and decided to escalate the conflict. The Santa Fe club’s leadership, headed by Luis Spahn, will turn to the AFA as a mediation body in its dispute with Racing over irregularities detected in the transfers of Adrián Balboa and Juan Ignacio Nardoni, players of whom Unión owns 20% and 30% of the economic rights, respectively.

The suspicions are concrete: in the Tatengue camp they believe that the Academy concealed at least two million dollars from the taxable base in the midfielder’s move to Brazil’s Grêmio, and they are also questioning the transparency of the amounts reported in the striker’s sale to Russia’s FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod. As TyC Sports was able to learn, the claim is real, and if the mediation does not work, those in Santa Fe are not ruling out stronger action.

The Balboa case raised alarms due to the lack of information. The Avellaneda club reported a permanent sale for one million dollars but refused to send a copy of the contract, citing an alleged confidentiality clause. Professionals from the Santa Fe club traveled to compare the documentation and found irregularities: invoices for alleged representation by FIFA agents that do not specify any connection to the transfer or proof of payment, and a unilateral settlement in which Racing sent money that Unión accepted only “on account of any eventual differences,” formally recording its disagreement.

But the Nardoni situation is described in Santa Fe as “much more serious.” So far, Tate has not received any payment. Although the institution presided over by Diego Milito acknowledged the debt, it has not sent any funds, while the original contract does not authorize the Academy to make installment payment agreements. And there is a multimillion-dollar contradiction fueling suspicion: it circulated that the overall deal was for ten million dollars, with eight fixed and two tied to objectives. However, Racing declared to Unión an eight-million-dollar deal, with six in installments and two tied to targets, of which it has allegedly already collected the first two-million-dollar installment.

From Santa Fe, they believe that Avellaneda’s side has already collected four million dollars and not the two it reported club to club, which would imply that two million are being hidden from the base on which Tatengue’s percentage is calculated. A difference that, in terms of the 30% owned by Unión, would represent $600,000 not paid out.

Santa Fe’s leadership is considering taking federative, judicial, and even criminal action if mediation before the AFA does not resolve the conflict. For now, they are exhausting friendly channels, but patience has run out after repeated formal demands and an in-person trip to Avellaneda that cleared up none of the doubts.

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