Why did FC BARCELONA suspend the contract with RDC? Explanations in 5 points :

Why did FC BARCELONA suspend the contract with RDC? Explanations in 5 points :

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1. The RDC hires a French agency to negotiate the contract with FC Barcelona. If the team agrees to promote the RDC, the agency will get 10% of the contract. This agency is called Ya'ats Sports.

2. The agency does its job and reaches an agreement with FC Barcelona. Ya'ats Sports will receive 4.3 million euros. And it's Barcelona that will pay them, out of the 43 million that the RDC will pay. The deal is almost wrapped up!
We're in May 2025, and by magic, Didier Budimbu brings in a new negotiator: Ventilo Sports!

3. Ventilo Sports belongs to a close associate of Emmanuel Macron. It's the French President himself who made the connection between Félix Tshisekedi and Ventilo Group. Félix assigns Didier Budimbu the mission of inserting Ventilo Sports into the "deal," surely to please Emmanuel Macron. But Ventilo Group does nothing. In fact, the President of Barça will write to Félix Tshisekedi: that his club recognizes only Ya'ats Sports as the commission agent and that the 10% will be paid to them.

4. When the contract is signed. Barcelona finds itself pursued by 2 commission agents who each want 10%, i.e., 8.6 million! Barça categorically refuses to pay. But under pressure from Kinshasa, the team proposes to give 8% to Ya'ats, and 2% to Ventilo. To settle the matter and not pay more than 10% to the commission agents.

5. The 2 groups refuse! Barça suspends the contract and the team no longer wears the RDC jersey for its training sessions. The matter is now in court in France between the 2 commission companies.

For addition: Ya'ats Sports nevertheless belongs to a Congolese businessman. And Ventilo belongs to a close associate of Macron.
Kinshasa uses these partnerships to imitate and supplant Rwanda.
 
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