It’s not only top-flight clubs who can get involved in international transfer controversies centring around big-name figures, as Almirante Brown have discovered recently. Because for a while now, the B Nacional side have been trying to sign Ramón Díaz, but have hit a few snags.
Now, that got your attention, didn’t it? Well, the first thing to admit is that whilst the name is the same as that of San Lorenzo’s championship-winning manager, Brown aren’t seriously trying to steal away El Pelado from his current club. No, this Ramón Díaz is an attacking midfielder from Colombian club Deportes Quindió.
Díaz signed a contract in mid-August (which, entirely incidentally, includes a clause allowing him to leave should a bid come in from a Primera A side or one outside Argentina), and that, surely, should have been that. But no. Because Díaz had, it transpired, already been paid a portion of his salary by Quindió which he then failed to refund them on leaving the club. The Colombian football association told him he could only be allowed to move when the sum – around US$5,000 – was paid.
On Wednesday, the player apparently either unwilling or unable to pay the money back in the intervening time, Almirante Brown agreed with the AFA that they themselves would pay the money, and are looking into the chance of Díaz paying them back through his future earnings should he not stay at the club too long. They hope to have him registered in time to face Ferro in the next round of the championship.
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