Veigar Páll Gunnarsson transfer 2011

In the summer of 2011, Veigar Páll Gunnarsson transferred from Stabæk to Vålerenga. It was later revealed that Stabæk accepted an offer from Vålerenga for Gunnarsson on 1 million NOK, while Rosenborg offered 5 million for Gunnarsson. At the same time, Vålerenga bought an option for Stabæk's 16-year-oldHerman Stengel priced at 4 million. The contracted sum of this transfer was proportional to the sum that AS Nancy would receive, as a result from the contract of the Gunnarsson transfer in 2009, when Gunnarsson transferred between football clubs AS Nancy and Vålerenga — AS Nancy was to receive 50 percent of the transfer fee next time Gunnarsson was transferred to another club.

The clubs Stabæk and Vålerenga were later fined 500,000 and 350,000 Norwegian kroner respectively, by a committee (påtalenemd) of Football Association of Norway. Thereafter a police investigation started. Starting on 19 August 2013 four of Stabæk's employees during the transfer will be on trial in Norway, in a case where two police fines that have not been accepted by Stabæk Fotball and Stabæk Fotball AS, will also be judged.

TV 2 (Norway) revealed on 12 October 2011 that Gunnarsson was transferred to Vålerenga for 1 million NOK, while Vålerenga paid a transfer fee of 4 million NOK for the 15-year-old footballer Herman Stengel. In 2013 Finansavisen said that "In addition the club in Oslo would have to pay Norwegian kroner 12.5 million or 15 million for the player himself, depending on when Vålerenga fetched the 16-year old." Furthermore, the newspaper quoted påtalenemden: "Transfers with such sums are unknown in Norway, with a possible exception for John Carew's transfer from Vålerenga to RBK. - As late as a half year before the option agreement with Vålerenga was signed, Stabæk was evaluating if they 'should use Norwegian kroner 250000 on a 15-year old with a potential for being resold [with a profit] (salgspotensial),' according to a report from the athletic committee of the team from Bærum. Thereafter Stengel is mentioned only once—that he is considering signing on to Stabæk—in the styreprotokoller (recorded notes of the board of directors) and in the referater (recorded notes of meetings) of the athletic commission, according to påtalenemda." Furthermore, "Påtalenemnda finds this 'remarkable' since the option agreement in the short term resulted in an infusion (to the economically troubled Stabæk)—four times as much as the Gunnarson transfer, which has been recorded in the notes of the board of directors (styrets protokoll)"

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