By: Sahr Morris Jr
Photo: first from right Patrick Mork
Popular Swedish agent, Patrick Mörk who is Sierra Leone’s super-agent, Chernor Musa Jalloh’s partner has broken the silence over the issue of his player, Juma Bah moving to Manchester City from Real Valladolid.
The highly respected football agent said throughout his practice he has completed several agreements and transfers with football teams across the world but has never faced such a situation as the Real Valladolid saga.
He said: “I have never found myself in such an absurd, unreal and senseless situation as the one I am experiencing now.
“I want to start by reminding you that for Juma Bah to come to Valladolid, I had to pay the travel and accommodation costs of the Real Valladolid scouts by investing my own money. I assumed the expenses because I knew it was a safe and beneficial investment for everyone.”
Mörk further revealed that when the Spanish club decided to sign Juma Bah, a loan contract with an option to buy was obtained, thereby avoiding any financial risk, and a work contract was negotiated with the player through him.
“For this contract, I was aware that I was hiring a young and unknown player at the time but who stood out for his enormous potential, Real Valladolid demanded certain conditions that were accepted practically without opposition or negotiation. Part of these conditions was a termination clause where the club stipulated the price of the player for an automatic termination of the contract,” he said and added: “With Juma Bah already signed, Real Valladolid asked me to sell the player’s federation rights to obtain a financial return and made special reference to the release clause as a possibility to carry out the transfer. In compliance with this task, I presented several offers before the opening of this transfer market. Some clubs offered even more than the price set by the release clause, but Real Valladolid did not accept any offer.”
The Swedish agent continued: “One of these clubs has shown a special interest in Juma Bah and, after attempting a friendly negotiation, has decided, voluntarily, consciously and after analysing the situation as a whole, to pay the price of the termination clause to release the player from his contract with Real Valladolid and proceed with his signing. A procedure that, far from the slander that has been said, is protected by law. What is more, I would dare to say that there is nothing ethically reprehensible in paying the price established in a contract and accepted by the contracting parties. What is reprehensible, ethically and even legally, is that the directors of Real Valladolid lie and defame to hide their previous decisions.”
Mörk also stated neither Juma Bah nor he ever rejected the transfer of the player from the youth team to the reserve team or the first team. And that Real Valladolid has never contacted them to make a change to the player’s licence.
He said: “It is also not true that we have refused to renew the contract with an improvement in salary conditions. Real Valladolid sent us a proposal in which the player’s economic conditions were improved (although low compared to the rest of the squad and their performance) by making it coincide with the exercise of the purchase option. However, and having given the go-ahead for this improvement, nothing further was ever communicated in this regard.”
