“Welcome to Football Leaks. This project aims to publicize the hidden part of football. Unfortunately the sport we love so much is rotten and it’s time to say enough. Funds, commissions, deals, everything serves to enrich certain parasites that take advantage of football, totally sucking clubs and players ”. That was how the blog presented itself to the world, at 5:17 am on September 29, 2015. Rui Pinto was not yet his face, but it would be later.
Five years later, the ball is still round, but the business is much bigger. Transfers for previously unthinkable values have enriched a set of intermediaries. But they also aroused the interest of tax authorities in several countries: would the football industry be delivering to society the proper share of taxes generated by stratospheric deals?
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