
The financial package imagined by Eagle to send Ernest Nuamah to Lyon, via Molenbeek, raised questions in the Norwegian press.
It’s a transfer that gets a lot of ink flowing. Olympique Lyonnais achieved its big hit in the summer transfer window by signing the promising Ernest Nuamah. But the Ghanaian winger does not really belong to OL. He was thus loaned to Les Gones after being recruited by… Molenbeek, another club belonging to Eagle Football, the company of John Textor.
This is how the “small” Belgian club who disbursed the 26 million euros promised to Nordsjaelland, who can hope to see the bill grow with some bonuses and a 25% resale clause, according to Tipsbladet. The Norwegian daily, precisely, is interested in this particularly strange transfer, indicating that
“FC Nordsjælland immediately received the full payment in a single payment, which is very“FC Nordsjælland immediately received the full payment in a single payment, which is very unusual for a transfer in this price range. »
Nuamah, a relay transfer? In addition, it has not escaped anyone that OL and Textor have planned this arrangement with Molenbeek to circumvent the regulations. Those of the DNCG, which pronounced supervision measures against the Rhone club, slowed down in its regulations. But also those of FIFA. In this case, Tipsbladet observes that the Nuamah case
“looks like a bridging transfer, a type of transfer with a third club involved expressly prohibited by FIFA rules. » In concrete terms, as the Jurisportiva site explains,
“FIFA provides that unless the contrary can be established, if two consecutive transfers – national or international – of the same player take place within the space of sixteen weeks, then the parties involved in these two transfers (clubs and player ) will be deemed to have taken part in a bridging transfer”.
In this case, it is not a second transfer in a very short period of time, but a free loan, which should allow OL to get by from this point of view. . And this could lead FIFA to change its regulations to fight against companies owning several clubs, and using them as they please…
Before Nuamah’s transfer, Molenbeek had never spent more than €3m to land a player, according to Transfermakt.












