Barcelona summer signing’s boyhood club seeking €103,000 in transfer compensation

According to Mundo Deportivo, Union Adarve, the boyhood club of Barcelona defender Marcos Alonso have filed a complaint against the Catalans to the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber, seeking a compensation for his arrival at Camp Nou.

Alonso joined Barcelona in the summer last year, arriving as a free agent after his contract with Chelsea was terminated. The deal happened hours after the Blaugrana sold Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to the Premier League club in a deal worth €12 million.

Union Adarve are alleging that Barcelona ‘simulated’ Alonso’s signing as a free agent and that the defender was signed as part of the Aubameyang operation.

Alonso spent time at the Madrid-based club’s youth system from October 1, 2001, to October 14, 2002, and later from December 18, 2004, to June 30, 2005.

The RFEF Segunda Division outfit claim that Barcelona and Chelsea carried out an exchange of players which led to the reduction of Aubameyang’s transfer fee to as low as €12 million. They accuse Alonso did not arrive at Spotify Camp Nou with a letter of freedom.

“Adarve saw this as a possible covert exchange of players in which Chelsea and FC Barcelona had agreed on the transfer of Aubameyang for €12 million, to which would have been added the ‘free release’ of Marcos Alonso, which would have considerably reduced the price of Aubameyang, whose market value would be far from the €12 million finally paid,” Adarve stated.

And hence, Adarve are seeking financial compensation from Barcelona as stipulated under FIFA’s Solidarity Mechanism according to which they would be owed a part of the fee for each international transfer of the player.

The solidarity mechanism specifies that if a footballer is transferred before the expiration of his contract, the club or clubs that contributed to his education and training will receive a part of the compensation paid to the previous club. 

The Madrid-based outfit is seeking a sum of around €103,000 (0.025% of the total operation) from the La Liga leaders and have acquired the services of Jorge Vaquero Villa, a former advisor to RFEF and FIFA, as their lawyer.