Foot & Soccer Soccer Match Reports, Football News
It has been virtually three years since FC Barcelona signed Jules Kounde from Sevilla in a deal value round €50 million.
The 25-year-old French worldwide has grown into an integral member of the crew, notably excelling within the ongoing season at right-back underneath Hansi Flick.
Previous comes again to hang-out
Barcelona, although, discover themselves in a authorized battle over their operation to signal Kounde again in 2022.
Certainly, as reported by Jijantes FC, middleman and soccer agent Isaac T. Lopez has filed a lawsuit towards Barcelona, alleging non-payment of his fee value €3 million for the Jules Kounde switch.
The middleman was concerned within the negotiations that allowed the French defender to hitch the Catalan membership regardless of Chelsea’s curiosity.
The occasions date again to eight August 2021, when the claimant’s companies have been requested to strengthen the Catalans’ first-team defence, with a give attention to Kounde.
Barcelona signed Kounde in 2022. (Photograph by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
In accordance with the lawsuit, on 10 June 2022, “FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta requested him, as a result of his good relationship with Monchi, to intervene on behalf of Barcelona” by means of the “financial levers”, since Chelsea have been additionally within the central defender, whose signing was formally introduced on 26 July 2022.
The defendant outlines the existence of a debt and calls for the unpaid charges for the operation, regardless of presenting proof of the work carried out throughout this era as an middleman.
The lawsuit specifies that Lopez performed “a necessary and figuring out position within the negotiation and subsequent acquisition of Jules Kounde by FC Barcelona.”
The lawsuit, which was accepted by the court docket this afternoon, provides one other authorized challenge to Barcelona’s present state of affairs, with the Catalans already coping with numerous financial and authorized challenges.
Following the current lawsuit filed by sporting director Deco towards Victor Font, the membership will now have to deal with this litigation and make clear whether or not there may be an excellent debt with the middleman or if the fee fee was not a part of the agreed phrases.
