Why has Malaga not yet received the four million euros pending from the transfer of Ontiveros to Villarreal agreed in 2019? This was one of the questions that was raised to José María Muñoz, judicial administrator, during his appearance last Thursday. This is how he explained the situation. “Ontiveros: “It’s four million euros without interest and we’re still waiting to collect. We have no news. The one who leads all the negotiation is Villarreal. We have had offers to reach an agreement, but we have not contemplated them. The problem is not Malaga, but the contract that was signed. We are troupes there. We can call, do off-the-record matters, but little else.”
Convoluted matter that we will try to unravel. In the summer of the aforementioned year 2019 the situation of Malaga was desperate after not getting the quick return to First that had been designed. Devoured by a salary limit far exceeded, the club had no choice but to release salary mass based on transfers. And in this context, Malaga found the scandalous contract of Alfred Ndiaye.
The Senegalese midfielder came on loan from Villarreal for two seasons charging 1.5 million euros net for each of them. An excess increased by a mandatory purchase option valued at six million euros. unaffordable.
Ndiaye went to Getafe and when the midfielder was in Madrid, Al Thani stopped that loan. The sheikh, who has done many things wrong, is not directly to blame for that catastrophic operation. The sports director was José Luis Pérez Caminero.
Then Malaga put itself in the hands of Villarreal, who were also fried for getting rid of a footballer for whom they paid Betis eight million euros. And he got rid of a problem for the Malaguistas by transferring the player to Al Sabah in Saudi Arabia for six million euros. Of this amount agreed with the Arabs, four million would go to Malaga for Ontiveros. We can literally say that who owes money to Malaga is not Villarreal but Al Sabab.
But Al Shabab, whose economic solvency and seriousness there were more than reasonable doubts, was lazy with the payments, so Villarreal denounced the case to FIFA. The highest body of world football agreed with the yellows and forcing the Arabs to satisfy the famous four million plus interest, under penalty of being sanctioned with three windows without signing.
In vain. Al Shabab does not pay nor does it seem that it will, at least in the short term. The dust of a lousy management in Malaga continues to leave mud.