Rio Grande do Sul third-tier club seeks Ibañez sale debt from Fluminense

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·25 Maret 2026

Rio Grande do Sul third-tier club seeks Ibañez sale debt from Fluminense

In an exclusive interview with ESPN Brasil, Edmilson Silva, owner of Players RS, a club in Rio Grande do Sul’s third division, is demanding that Fluminense pay a debt owed to the club related to the sale of Ibañez to Atalanta in 2019. According to ESPN, the club from Rio Grande do Sul estimates that the debt currently stands at around R$ 5 million.

“They were never fair in any part of it. It’s not just me who has suffered from this, several clubs have already gone through it, but it’s so bad, because if the money from Ibañez had come in, all of my partners would have been paid. (…) The president at the time said he wasn’t going to pay, and he really didn’t. He has already left, another one came in, and I really don’t know where this is going, how it will end, whether I’ll ever get paid,” said Edmilson.

In 2019, Fluminense sold the defender for 4 million euros (around R$ 17.2 million at the exchange rate at the time). However, the club still had an outstanding financial obligation to Players RS regarding the acquisition of 70% of the player’s economic rights in 2018. To settle the debt and pass on part of the transfer fee, the parties signed an agreement totaling 700,000 euros, to be paid in two installments: 400,000 euros in the first stage and 300,000 euros in the second.

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In the case, Fluminense says there is no proof that the conditions required for payment of the second installment were met. The club also challenges the validity of contractual clauses and points to an alleged overcharge in the amount being claimed.

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