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The world of player transfers, unsurprisingly, has a seedy underbelly. But now there’s a new website run by an anonymous group that aims to shed light on the shady dealings in football— and it has clubs across Europe running scared.
Football Leaks, currently manifested as a Wordpress blog, is mostly serving as a repository for document dumps for leaked information and data. As this profile in the New York Times details, the site started as a means to investigate and expose the prevalence of third-party ownership (TPO) deals among Portuguese football clubs but has since expanded to include information on English, Spanish, Dutch, and French clubs.
The NYT piece highlights Football Leaks’ targeting of FC Twente, currently struggling near the bottom of the Eredivisie. The site published numerous documents exposing player transfer deals involving Doyen Sports, a sports investment firm based in Malta known for buying and trading in third-party shares of footballers. A recent deal, exposed by Football Leaks, showed that Doyen lent $5.5 million to Twente in exchange for the economic rights to five of their players. One of them, Serbian attacking midfielder Dušan Tadić, was sold to Southampton a year and a half ago for $16.5 million.
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