FC Juárez and Andrés Fassi, close to buying Granada from Spain

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The FC Juárez partnership with Andrés Fassi, former director of Pachuca and president of Talleres, has already made a formal offer for Granada CF and is only waiting for a tax problem to be resolved by Gino Pozzo, an Italian businessman who owned the club. club between 2009 and 2016.

For this reason, the transaction has not been closed. The Spanish Treasury demands the club pay 9.6 million euros for the case called “Operation Líbero”, which came to light in 2018, when the National Police arrested Quique Pina, former team president, for alleged money laundering and tax fraud in the sale and purchase of players.

If it comes to fruition, it would be the third Mexican club to complete the purchase of a team from the Spanish First Division, just as Club Pachuca did in 2022 with the acquisition of Real Oviedo and Club Santos with Real Sporting de Gijón.

According to sources consulted by the Mexican site mediotiempo.com, the offer made by Fassi and the company based in El Paso, Texas, MountainStar Sports Group LLC, owned by Alejandra de la Vega and her husband, is 85 million euros, plus the 9.6 million that the Spanish Treasury is requesting.

This business group, in addition to having the Braves men’s and women’s teams, has El Paso Locomotora FC, which plays in the USL Championship, which is the Second Division in the United States, and El Paso Chihuahuas, an affiliate baseball team. of the Triple-A San Diego Padres of the MLB. Meanwhile, the Chinese firm Wuhan DDMC Football Club Management Ltd. is currently the owner of the Andalusian team.