Arda Turanformer player of Barcelona Soccer Cluband of Atlético de Madrid, has not taken well when his former landlord in Catalonia accused him of having destroyed a villa then valued at 18 million euros and has decided that he will file a lawsuit for a crime against his honor. In this way, the case, revealed for the first time by El Periódico de España, from the same editorial group as this newspaper, has taken a new turn after two months ago a court return the dispute for damages and unpaid bills in the home to the starting point after the Turk was sentenced to pay close to 300,000 euros in damages alone. The reason is that deficiencies were observed in the notification of the lawsuit that supposedly prevented Arda from being properly defended.
Now, Turan, through his lawyer in our country, has presented a counterattack in court against the owner of that luxury villa in Esplugues de Llobregat with a document in which accuses him of “bad faith” and of having tried to get him to “pay for a comprehensive renovation of the house”. “There are no invoices, they are just budgets,” they explain to this newspaper from the former soccer player’s defense.
Flawed from the beginning, the relationship between Turan and his former landlord from the summer of 2015 to January 2018 began, as the latter explains, with a first stridency: “He finishes signing and starts shouting like a madman: ‘Look at Barça! Barça! Barça!‘”. Today, almost nine years after that moment, and as confirmed to this newspaper by her legal representation, Arda Turan is going to file a lawsuit against the owner for a crime against her honor.
Two of the more than 500 photographs that appear in the expert report that evaluated how Turan returned the chalet. / EPE
Real damage or not
From the moment they resolved the contract, several months before what was agreed, the atmosphere was not friendly. Upon handing over the keys, and aware, says the owner, of what he was going to find, the landlord assures that he brought an expert to photographically document the state of the house. In total, and according to the report consulted by El Periódico de España, the player would have left almost 230,000 euros in damages, in addition to unpaid monthly payments and utility bills.
However, in his response to the lawsuit, the former Barcelona Football Club player maintains that part of the alleged defects were already “remedied when the expert report was issued“, which is why in that report “there are only budgets, no invoices.”
“The damages, if they have been real or of the severity that we are led to believe, as they were supposedly repaired before the expert report was written, should have the documentary support of an invoice and payment for the same. When it is not provides this proof is because it does not exist, being unreal the damage fallaciously attributed to Arda Turan“says the document presented on April 23 in front of the Court of First Instance and Instruction Number 1 of Esplugues de Llobregat, Catalonia.
The cost of restoring a ‘casoplón’
Whether these damages are real or not, the truth is that in this expert report presented by the owner there are more than 500 photographs in which you can see pieces of wall torn offvery deteriorated furniture and appliances or rehabilitation bills for exclusive services such as the cinema, video surveillance or the whole-house sound system, which stopped working due to not receiving adequate maintenance for a home that the press praised at the time as one of the most coveted “casoprones” in Catalonia.
The villa, then valued at around 18 million euros and located in the town of Esplugues de Llobregat, would have seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a 100 square meter living room, a soundproofed cinema room, a virtual golf room, a garage with capacity for eight cars… And, as a finishing touch, a swimming pool infinity with views of Barcelona.
Exterior view of the house rented by Arda Turan in 2015. / EPE
In the breakdown of what it supposedly cost to return the house to the original state it had in 2015, you can see, for example, that it would have taken 16,500 euros to restore the doors, 23,000 to revitalize a garden in which there was even a felled tree 64,300 for the kitchen or 24,500 euros to restart the home automation and electronic systems of the chalet. Only for lights, cleaning and various damages there are invoices in the expert report worth 84,000 euros. All that money had to be advanced by the owner four years ago to be able to continue renting the property.
Defects in notification
The reason why the Provincial Court of Barcelona recently decided to return the process to its original state in the Court of First Instance and Instruction Number 1 of Espluguesa de Llobregat is because, once the owner filed the complaint, sent the notification to an address in Galicia and not to Arda directlywhich had set its course for Turkish football in the 2018 winter market.
Although he was still contractually linked to the culé team, Turan no longer resided in Spain, so, if he had been notified abroad, the judicial process would have been different. The landlord maintains, for his part, that he sent the notification to Galicia because It is where the player’s representative resided and the one who had some of the chalet’s supply invoices in his name.. However, this, for the Turk’s lawyers, represents an act of bad faith and is one of the several points of conflict that will clash during the judicial process that is going to restart.
2024-05-05 06:41:04
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