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There are two ways through which third-party ownership happens,
a) Consider a player, possibly a wonderkid in South America. Everyone knows that he is going to make it big. Now, the third-party investors approach him and promise that they would help him become a star. Once the player signs up with them, they market him, they arrange better agents and management for him. They then buy the registration rights of the player, help him move abroad and when he does make it big, they cash out.
This is what has happened with Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano.
Tevez and Mascherano were third-party owned.
b) The other way is that when a club is short of funds to sign a player, they approach a third-party and ask them for money in exchange for the registration rights of the player. This is what happened with Falcao. Porto wanted to sign him up, but they didn’t have enough funds. So they gave 55% of Falcao’s ownership to Doyen Sports and they in turn funded his transfer.
Later, Doyen Sports financed Falcao’s move to Atletico Madrid. What is more interesting is the fact that Doyen Sports paid most of Falcao’s wages during his time at Atletico. Now, he has become a liability than an asset. They needed to cash in on him before that could become financially impossible. Hence, he was shipped out to AS Monaco for a profit.
It should also be noted that FC Porto owned only 45% of Hulk when he was playing with them. It was once again a third-party investment that forced his move to Zenit St. Petersburg.
Third-party ownership, in the longer run, seems to be unfair to the game as well as the player. But imagine this. Take a club like Stoke City, Newcastle United or Everton. They cannot manage the funds to sign top players. But if they are allowed to take third-party investments, they could challenge the biggies of the Premier League at least for a season or two before the player gets snapped up by a bigger team. But, then again, if every team follows this, the only result would be total chaos.
So, it seems that the real reason why Falcao moved to AS Monaco is because he had very little say in it.
