There's another major side effect to third-party ownership: Its impact on the new FinancialFairPlayregulations that limit the losses clubs wishing to play in lucrative European competition can sustain.
That is nothing close to what some of the big clubs in Europe would be willing to pay him and still stay the right side of UEFA FinancialFairPlayregulations.
Judging by the million-dollar football salaries, you'd be forgiven for thinking the UEFA's FinancialFairPlayregulations -- agreed in 2009 as a way of controlling clubs' ever-rising expenditure -- had done little to stem spending.
UEFA's FinancialFairPlayregulations, which begin in 2014 and limit a club's losses over a given period, are turning soccer into a buyer's market in which habitual big spenders are unwilling to throw money around.
Malaga were unavailable for comment when contacted by CNN, but the official line is that the sudden cost-cutting is to ensure the club complies with FinancialFairPlayregulations, a set of rules implemented by European football's governing body aimed at ensuring teams live within their means.
"Clubs will have been reading the financialfairplay rules and regulations very closely to look for areas that they can use in their favour, " added the lawyer, of the Brabners Chaffe Street firm.