“Agreements with Zarya about Willian are sometimes implemented, sometimes violated.”

One of the founders of ALIK Football Management, Aleksey Lyundovskiy, commented for Sport.ua on the situation surrounding Cruzeiro’s debt with forward Willian Gómez, for which the Brazilian club was sanctioned by FIFA at the request of Zorya Luhansk and was was deprived of the opportunity to sign up new players. …

“When the players left the Metalist in 2014 due to financial problems, Willian Gómez’s Brazilian agents contacted me and my partners regarding further employment and a possible transfer of this player to Europe. We hired a player for Zorya and looked for a transfer to a European club, but the player wanted to continue his career at home. We found an option for him in Brazil and transferred Willian from Zorya to Cruzeiro on the terms approved by Zorya in the person of Sergey Rafailov, CEO and Evgeny Geller, president of the club. “

“At some point, Cruzeiro stopped meeting its transfer obligations. We (and not Zarya, because the Lugansk residents only carried out paperwork, signed powers of attorney and sent letters) had to contact FIFA and sue Cruzeiro. We hired the well-known Brazilian law firm Bichara e Motta and incurred all court expenses, winning all cases at FIFA and at the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport. “

Zorya, having received most of the transfer money by the player who did not play for the Luhansk club for a minute, the rest, in accordance with existing agreements, was assigned to our company ALIK Football Management for agreements with lawyers and Brazilian agents “.

“After Sergei Rafailov, CEO, was fired from Zarya, agreements are sometimes honored and sometimes violated. The climax was first the signing of trilateral agreements on debt, and then Zarya’s refusal.

“How will the situation develop further? As far as I know, Cruzeiro will address the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport on this issue, and we are ready to provide all the information we have on this case, as there are documents, there is correspondence with Zorya, in the end, there are people who can confirm everything, ”Lyundovsky said.

As a reminder, Zorya CEO Stanislav Oganov said in a comment to Sport.ua that the information about the notification of Cruzeiro by the citizens of Luhansk through the official email, about the transfer of rights of Willian Gomez to ALIK Football Management, it is false.

For more details on the complexities of the situation around Willian Gomez, Cruzeiro, Zarya and ALIK Football Management, read our special material: “The money for Willian led to the war between Dawn and Cruzeiro. What’s going on?”