Without recourse to pay debt in FIFA, Atlético-MG predicts loss of points in the Brazilian | athletic-mg

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The situation is considered desperate by the President of the Rooster, Sérgio Sette Câmara. He reported that he had reserved some R $ 9 million to pay the debt, but with the increase in the euro (it reached R $ 6 last Friday), the value of the debt increased in recent days, exceeding what the Alvinegro team had in box.

– I have no prospect of making the payment on Monday. If I don’t, Atlético will take three points on their heads. I do not know how to tell you what the consequences are, but I have the impression that (in addition to taking three points), they established a new term, a new sports penalty, that I cannot tell you what it is, if it is another loss of points or it is degradation. It is desperate, because he caught me at the worst moment, in the middle of the coronavirus, there is no recipe, there is no football – Sette Câmara said in an interview for Perrone’s blog.

Sette Câmara said that he made a proposal to pay “eight, nine” installments of 200 thousand euros, a value of approximately R $ 11 million today. However, the largest soccer entity did not accept the athletic proposal, according to Sette Câmara.

– FIFA was very insensitive. At a time of coronavirus, when you have suspended employment contracts, suspended or extended bank contracts (…) I made a proposal to FIFA. I said to him: look, all the debts that I found in my management were not mine, and I paid. I’m asking for a delivery. It is not a pipeline, a deadline, an extension, or anything. I need installment payments to be able to pay my employees, but it’s not the player, it’s the doorman, the pool cleaner.

Without success with FIFA, Câmara sought loans from banks and also an advance on fees. Nothing was possible.

– I tried all kinds of loans, but I couldn’t. Smaller banks cut club guaranteed fees. Larger banks no longer maintain that overdraft with clubs. Then all the fountains dried up. We had already received the state television bills in advance. The biggest sponsorships I have here (BMG and MRV) had already paid off. In smaller sponsorships, they asked for suspension or reduction, reported the Atlético president.

Faced with a scenario without resources foreseen to pay the debt and avoid punishment in FIfa, Sette Câmara even considered the possibility of selling some personal property.

– I have until the end of our banking hours on Monday to make the payment (of the debt). I hope to reverse this situation? Little bit. I’m trying here, watching with some friends, trying to complement the value, I’m not even sleeping (…) I’m going to try something on Monday. If you’re wrong, I’ll even try to sell something personal to try to pay, he admitted.

Finally, Sette Câmara said that he will have to choose between paying the debt and the payroll, which is currently also past due. Galo is late with a payroll and three others with image rights.

Maicosuel cost Atlético 3,315,000.00 euros, in installments as follows: three installments of 830,000 euros in January and July 2015, and in January 2016; plus a portion of 825 thousand euros in June 2016. The purchase was made under the direction of Alexandre Kalil.

Atlético has yet to pay about 58 thousand euros in solidarity with the purchase of Otero, in 2017, with Caracas, one of the revealing clubs of the Venezuelan. Still in FIFA, Galo is still discussing the debt claimed by Vélez Sarsfield (Lucas Pratto) and Junior Barranquilla (Yimmi Chará). And there are still lawsuits filed by Osmanlispor (Patric) and Banfield (Cazares).