In Buenos Aires, Unión's bombshell for Racing tipped 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 hid at least two million dollars from the taxable base in the midfielder’s move to Brazil’s Grêmio, and they also question the transparency of the amounts reported in the striker’s sale to FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod of Russia. As TyC Sports was able to learn, the claim is real, and if mediation does not work, those in Santa Fe are not ruling out stronger action.

The Balboa case raised alarms because of the lack of information. The Avellaneda club reported a permanent transfer 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 link to the transfer or proof of payment, and a unilateral settlement in which Racing sent money that Unión received only “on account of possible differences,” leaving an administrative record of its disagreement.

But Nardoni’s situation is described in Santa Fe as “much more serious.” So far, the 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 arrange payment plans in installments. And there is a multimillion-dollar contradiction fueling the suspicion: it circulated that the overall deal was for ten million dollars, with eight fixed and two tied to objectives. However, Racing reported to Unión a deal worth eight million, with six in installments and two tied to targets, of which it had reportedly already collected the first two-million-dollar installment.

From Santa Fe, they believe that Avellaneda’s club 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 Unión’s percentage is calculated. In terms of the 30% Unión owns, that difference would represent $600,000 not paid.

Santa Fe’s leadership is considering initiating disciplinary, civil, and even criminal action if mediation before the AFA does not resolve the conflict. For now, they are exhausting amicable channels, but their patience ran out after repeated formal demands and a trip in person to Avellaneda that failed to clear up any of the doubts.

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