Samuel Eto’o takes legal action against Barcelona
Greedy Cameroonian demands 15 per cent share of transfer fee
Barcelona may have hoped they had seen the last of Samuel Eto’o when they offloaded him to Inter Milan in exchange for a massively-overrated-yet-currently-free-scoring Swede, but the Cameroonian striker is causing more headaches in Catalonialand.
Sport this morning report that Eto’o is demanding fifteen per cent of his transfer fee to the Serie A giants, which works out at around €3m of a reported €20m fee.
The fifteen per cent fee is a standard term set out by the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) when players transfer between Spanish clubs, but Barca have quite rightly pointed out that Inter Milan are not a Spanish team.
Despite this startling geographical evidence, the Spanish paper say the Cameroonian has made a request for his share of a deal that he effectively forced via his abhorrent personality, and has now lodged a formal complaint. If Barcelona fail to stuff the extra cash into his bulging mattress, the matter will be settled in court.
5 responses so far
FanFeedr // September 22, 2009 at 10:46 am
This is really ridiculous, and seems rather petty and small-minded. The transfer laws seem rather straightforward.
I hope Barça prevails in court.
Marco // September 22, 2009 at 10:52 am
I think Eto’o should be sued, for being a douchebag
julius // September 22, 2009 at 3:29 pm
this is total nonesense. what about the player who left spanished league(2008) and was transferred to Newcastle United. Was that money not paid to him. Is it because Eto’o is a black man that he has to be treated like that? I think Barcelona is belittling itself by not fulfilling their obligations.
bromide // September 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Julius,
it is definitely because he is a black man, barcelona are an institutionally racist club.
he should consider himself fucking lucky he’s not chinese – he would have got nothing.
randomsausage // September 22, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Ah Samuel: I’m now beginning to come around to the whole Zlatan thing…..you clearly are a douche for the ages.
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