Chelsea banned from Transfer Market until Jan 01 2011

[twistedAM]

I bet our American owners are thinking - please - let it happen to us!!!!

$$$$$

Meanwhile our Arabs are bricking it. They're bored of building skyscrapers and fleets of Boeings.

 

[editor]

Super rich club getting slapped down for dodgy practices? Billionaire owners upset? And it's Chelsea?

*Triple win!*

 

[nuffsaid]

Wonder how much Platini had a say in this, he's definitely against the Prem dominating the CL......still, HAHA!

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

couldn't have happened to a nicer club.

 

[toblerone3]

I wonder if the ruling covers loans.

 

[DexterTCN]

Surely it'll be reduced on appeal.

Any player who says they had a verbal contract or an offer from Chelski can now sue UEFA for financial loss?

Worms. Can. (and Real Madrid)

 

[embree]

Any player who says they had a verbal contract or an offer from Chelski can now sue UEFA for financial loss?

Well they could but they may not necessarily win. They'd have to prove they had such an offer for a start.

Tbh, suing the global governing body of the industry you work in when it has the total power FIFA does isn't a very clever move, as can be seen from the number of times it happens

 

[gabi]

The Fiver's opinion..

When the Fiver read on Big Paper Website that Chelsea had been banned from signing any new players in the next two transfer windows, our first course of action was to find a more reputable source to confirm the story. Upon establishing from the Sky Sports News Yellow Ticker Of Fact that it was indeed true, we quickly sped through a kind of reverse Kübler-Ross Five Stages of Ecstasy: amusement, pointing at pictures of Peter Kenyon and laughing like Nelson Muntz, raucous jubilation, teary rejoicing and Riverdancing around the office swigging from a salmanazar of Champagne.

"Chelsea is banned from registering any new players for the next two registration periods," declared a statement on Fifa's website, outlining the club's punishment for being found guilty of inducing French teenager Gaël Kakuta to break his contract with Lens and join them back in 2007. Fifa's dispute resolution chamber went on to rule that Kakuta must pay compensation of 780,000 Euros, for which Chelsea are "jointly and severely liable". The London club was also ordered to pay additional "training compensation" of 130,000 Euros to Lens, who might consider contributing a small portion of their windfall towards the Fiver's drive to raise funds for a keyboard with a Euro sign on it.

Although Chelsea had yet to comment on the ban as the Fiver was being written, they will almost certainly appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which will hopefully increase it, just for a laugh. In the meantime, we can only speculate whether the punishment meted out to Chelsea will result in Carlo Ancelotti leaving the club in a hot funk, chief tapper-upper Kenyon getting fired for bungling incompetence, the sky falling in over Stamford Bridge or Miroslav Stoch actually getting a run in the team some time in December 2010.

The good news for the Chelsea faithful is that they are still skippered by the notoriously loyal England's Brave John Terry. Or is it? A leader of men fabled for having the best interests of his club at heart, expect him to be first in the long queue of players lining up outside Roman Abramovich's office holding ransom notes, asking for even newer, more improved terms. Or else.

 

[agricola]

Chelsea claim this is "without precedent at this level"... "this level" clearly meaning to someone with their amount of money (because two clubs have been done for this, and the prescribed punishment in the relevant law is for a ban over two windows).

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~1787070,00.html

but lol @ the Fiver.

 

[g force]

Well there should be consistency so two windows it is. They can appeal but the lowest they'll get is the next two windows so nothing until winter 2010

 

[bluestreak]

*stifles giggles*

*fails*

Bet the cunts get off on appeal.

 

[Rollem]

all i can think of is

 

[not-bono-ever]

course they will



Abramobvich is rich.

He will win

 

[DexterTCN]

They won't get off, it'd embarrass FIFA and make it look weak.

They may get a reduction of some sorts but the message has been sent. Remember the big Italian punishments a few years ago.

 

[revol68]

They won't get off, it'd embarrass FIFA and make it look weak.

They may get a reduction of some sorts but the message has been sent. Remember the big Italian punishments a few years ago.

The big Italian punishments where AC Milan went from a 15 point redution and out of the champions league to a 8 point reduction and the CL and going onto win it?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Well there should be consistency so two windows it is. They can appeal but the lowest they'll get is the next two windows so nothing until winter 2010

 

[DexterTCN]

The big Italian punishments where AC Milan went from a 15 point redution and out of the champions league to a 8 point reduction and the CL and going onto win it?

Exactly.

 

[Pickman's model]

^ this

 

[internetstalker]

fucking madness

hahahahahha

they'll get it reduced on appeal tho

 

[fubert]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5inX8nF-1nM7k4BKwLHRVdWHJpnfQD9AFRNHG0

URICH — FIFA says it has banned Chelsea from signing any players for the next year because it encouraged a French player to break his contract and sign for the club.

FIFA said Thursday that Chelsea can't register new players, from England or abroad, during the next two transfer windows — in January 2010 and the next offseason.

FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber made the ruling after Lens complained that Chelsea lured Gael Kakuta to break his contract with the French club and move to London.

The dispute panel banned also Kakuta from playing for four months, and ordered Kakuta and Chelsea to pay Lens compensation and a training fee.

Chelsea can appeal the decision.

So they can appeal. Which they'll no doubt win. Is Sepp Blatter still President of FIFA ? There he is, upsetting a billionaire. Wonder what will happen next.

 

[baffled]

How do you coerce a minor into breaching a contract he can't have signed due to his age?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Chelsea are really going to have to build up some points in the first half of the season as they are likely to be fielding the groundsman and the catering staff come March.

 

[kabbes]

Chelsea are really going to have to build up some points in the first half of the season as they are likely to be fielding the groundsman and the catering staff come March.

Why, do clubs normally buy half a team in the January transfer window?

 

[London_Calling]

Gael Kakuta might even get a game.

 

[belboid]

chelsea dont normally spend much in january. however the last time there was an African Nations Cup they spent more than they did the following summer - about 24mill. Considering their lack of spending this summer, an excursion into the transfer market would have been very very likely.

Fortunately for them, an appeal will probably mean the ban wont be imposed until next summer & Jan 2011. so they can spend lots now to cover themselves for later.

 

[kabbes]

I do remember the season, actually, when Chelsea lost so many players through injury that they had to register Graham Rix. I think he got a game in a Cup Winners Cup match, IIRC.

 

[agricola]

The inevitable has occured!

 

[Dandred]

Best one yet