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Quality Sports Investments is a chain of companies dedicated to football investments. Through Quality Football Ireland, the company held the footballer's contract rights. QSI also invited investors to buy their financial products: the economic rights in packs. It was reported that Jorge Mendes and Peter Kenyon were the advisors to the fund. However Kenyon quit Creative Artists Agency in October 2011. It was also rumoured that FIFA was investigating the fund as third parties ownership actually not allowed and a possible conflict of interests of the agent Mendes and CAA. Creative Artists Agency, the manager of the investment fund, had set up Quality Sports Investments LP (one) to Quality Sports V Investments LP (five), as well as Quality Sports Investments Fund Limited, Quality Sports Investments Fund GP Limited, Quality Sports Jersey GP Limited (one to five) in Jersey. In Ireland, there was three companies, namely Quality Football Ireland Limited, Quality Football Ireland III Limited and Quality Football IV Ireland Limited. ==Quality Football Ireland Limited== Quality Football Ireland Limited (abb. QFIL) is a Republic of Ireland incorporated company. As of 31 December 2011, QFIL was 70% owned by CAA Sports International LLC (CAA), CAA director O'Connor and Michael Levine (co-head of CAA Sports) held 15% each. QFIL borrowed money from 'Quality Sports Investments LP and later Quality Sports II Investments LP (QSI II) to purchase the contract rights of the footballers, made the company an intermediate holding company with €100 net equity (the original share capital), or a shell company. The companies were associated with Quality Sports Jersey GP Limited (QSI GP) and Quality Sports II Jersey GP Limited (QSI II GP). QSI GP and QSI II GP were 50% owned by CAA. Unlike Portuguese football investment funds, the asset was not treated as an intangible asset, and so there is no amortization. Investor were at risk of losing all value if the player transferred as a free agent. In Portuguese funds, the asset is already amortized to zero when the player's contract expires. However in the Irish fund, the asset is still worth the same account value on the day before the player is released from his contract. The company at first bought 5 players from 2 clubs in 2010, for €7.25 million, which later revealed were Marco Torsiglieri 50% contract rights for €1.7 million from Sporting Clube de Portugal, (''de facto'' from former club Vélez) 50% contract rights of Hugo Almeida for €2 million from Beşiktaş〔In 2011–12 audit report: Diğer Ticari Borçlar hesap bakiyesi olan 21.844.989 TL’nin 17.286.189 TL’si faktoring şirketlerine olan borçlardan, kalan bakiye 2.000.000 EURO ( 4.558.800 TL) ise futbolcu Almeida transferi ile ilgili olarak fon şirketi QUALITY FOOTBALL IRELAND’e olan borçtan oluşmaktadır.〕 (''de facto'' from former club Bremen), and three players probably from Sporting for €1.55 million, €1 million and €1 million. Sporting had announced that they sold Eric Dier (€1 million) and Tobias Figueiredo (undisclosed) to the fund in August 2010. In 2011, the fund was restructured, the old player's asset were treated as one asset valued €7.25 million (contributed to QSI I) and new loan from QSI II were treated as another, for €12,900,000, which consist 50% contract rights of Elias for a further €3.85 million and €9.05 million other players. Elias was bought on 15 September 2011. Sporting bought 100% rights from Atlético Madrid for €8.85 million 2 weeks ago, made the transaction uneconomical as the price was less than half of the purchase value. However, as FIFA set up a monitoring system for the flow of the transfer fees, ensuring that the transfer fee must to paid between clubs, the transaction may involved third parties ownership. Atlético Madrid may "buy" the rights from a third party owner, sell "100% rights" to Sporting, and as part of the deal Sporting had to then on-sell the rights entitled to the third parties. After the deal, Sporting effectively bought Elias 50% rights for €5 million. Elias already fully owned by the third parties and the player himself before leaving Brazil, and Corinthians only owned the rights to receive 20% of the player's additional value. On 3 August 2011, Beşiktaş announced that the club was negotiating with QFIL for the rights of Necip Uysal, Atınç Nukan and Muhammed Demirci. On 27 August, Beşiktaş exposed the players involved in the negotiation was Hugo Almeida, which the club was trying to buy him back, and the three Turkish players were the bargaining-chip. In October and November Beşiktaş announced that there is no progress but the negotiation did not involve Ricardo Quaresma nor Mustafa Pektemek, as both players were 100% owned by the Turkish club. Sporting bought back Dier on 24 February 2012 by selling 50% rights of Filipe Chaby (€1 million). On 25 January, Torsiglieri was sold, QSIL received €1.7 million plus 10% interest per annum. 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