Dutch journalist reveals Brazilian agent complications in Douglas deal
Posted on July 30th, 2012 | 113 Comments |
After explaining that both Newcastle United’s manager and scouting department have been in the stands at Twente closely checking out the “big unit” centre back, van der Kraan went on to outline the difficulties of signing Brazilian players in general due to the highly complicated ownership of players by agents rather than clubs, saying:
“The tragic thing about this is that Brazilian players are owned by three different people in their own country. When they’re young, they sign contracts for agents instead of clubs – The agents hold the ownership of the player. It’s a card, what they call the player’s pass, and that is usually signed by the player and his parents for about ten years or even longer. They’re sold to the agent, and the agent has ridiculous power over the player for so many years.
“At the moment, Newcastle would love to sign Douglas, as I understand, but they have to deal with three parties all wanting a big share of the pie as we know in football.”
Now I checked up on this, and I could find two names given as being representatives of the player. The first was Ribeiro Souza Marcos Paulo from “MP9 Assessoria Esportiva”, a Brazilan ex footballer who is listed by FIFA’s list of accredited player agents. Probably because of his long Brazilian name, he has been mistakenly listed as two different people sometimes, Ribeiro Souza and Marcos Paulo, so perhaps van der Kraan made the same mistake? Secondly, there was Leo Scheinkmann, who isn’t on FIFA’s list of accredited agents. It was Scheinkmann, allegedly, who the football website, goal.com claimed broke the news, or “confirmed” to them that there was concrete interest in the player from the Magpies. However, they didn’t back it up with a direct quote so it can’t be certain. Of course,
Douglas did refer to his agent in the singular when he denied any knowledge of a Newcastle United bid, and expressed a wish to stay at his current club, saying in a post match interview:
“I know nothing of a bid and neither does my agent. Also I’ve heard nothing about it from Twente. For me it’s not concrete. I just want to stay at FC Twente.”
However this was very much at odds with earlier comments where he stated:
“I spent five years (at FC Twente), done my best for the club, have won the title, the cup and it’s time for the next step.”
After saying that he had been in touch with Ajax and told them he wasn’t interested in joining them he then added:
“I want to go abroad, I have outgrown the league. I noticed this year that I am sometimes a little too easy going down, then you make mistakes. I want to be tested every week.”
When the subject of Newcastle United was broached, he went on:
“Five clubs are interested, including a bigger club than Newcastle. I can’t say anything about it yet, but I hope to join my new club from Brazil soon.”
As well as being something of a presumptuous big head, wildly inconsistent in his comments, and having an allegedly complicated situation regarding his representatives, he has also proved to be something of a handful on the pitch too. Besides a prediliction for collecting yellow and red cards generally, he was once involved in an incident where he received THREE red cards in one game, one for slapping one opposition player, one for trying to headbutt the referee. On his sending off, he then refused to leave the pitch and had to be restrained by one of his fellow players to prevent futher violence, and he then punched another opposition player on his way off! I have included a video of it below. Apologies for the quality but the other one has been blocked to viewers outside of the Netherlands.
From what I’ve seen of him in the Eredivisie he certainly seems to be a good defender, but I would doubt the wisdom of Newcastle making a serious move for the player, as besides all the complications mentioned above, as you can see for yourselves, he can make Joey Barton look like Kofi Annan at times!
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Lol…. Do we really want a psycho like this in our team? … Joey barton’s madness was enough to last us about 20yrs !