Chelsea Banned From Signing Players for 2 Transfer Windows

Zippy · 3rd September 2009, 12:58pm

SSN now.

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On the occasion of its last meeting held on 27 August 2009, the Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) was called to pass a decision in a contractual dispute opposing the French club Lens to the French player Gael Kakuta and the English club Chelsea.

The French club had lodged a claim with FIFA seeking compensation for breach of contract from the player and requesting also sporting sanctions to be imposed on the player and the English club for breach of contract and inducement to breach of contract respectively.

The DRC found that the player had indeed breached a contract signed with the French club. Equally, the DRC deemed it to be established that the English club induced the player to such a breach.

As a result the player was condemned to pay compensation in the amount of EUR 780,000, for which the club, Chelsea, are jointly and severally liable, and sporting sanctions were imposed on both the player and Chelsea in accordance with art. 17 par. 3 and 4 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players.

A restriction of four months on his eligibility to play in official matches has been imposed on Kakuta. Chelsea are banned from registering any new players, either nationally or internationally, for the two next entire and consecutive registration periods following the notification of the present decision. Furthermore, the club, Chelsea, have to pay Lens training compensation in the amount of EUR 130,000.

FIFA Story

Jaemi · 3rd September 2009, 1:14pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ea/8236187.stm
Full Story.

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Chelsea have been banned from signing any new players in the next two registration periods by Fifa.

The Premiership club was found guilty of inducing French teenager Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens when he joined in 2007.

"Chelsea is banned from registering any new players for the two next registration periods," a statement on Fifa's website read.

Haha, nae luck.
I'm sure if they knew this they would've "stocked up" this year.

Syxx · 3rd September 2009, 1:25pm

Amazing. Well in FIFA.

stef4 · 3rd September 2009, 1:28pm

no doubt they will appeal it & get it reduced to just one transfer window.

Timmy · 3rd September 2009, 5:27pm

Nice strong position from FIFA.

Semprini · 3rd September 2009, 7:36pm

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Originally Posted by stef4

no doubt they will appeal it & get it reduced to just one transfer window.

Ideally, the appeal will raise it to three.

crazydiamond85 · 3rd September 2009, 8:53pm

haha
nae luck Chelski

Jaemi · 3rd September 2009, 9:03pm

FIFA make rules up as they go along.
How can you ban an employee from taking on employees?
There are ways and means, Chelsea will sign players and leave them on loan at their current club, ala Alex.

Westy · 3rd September 2009, 9:40pm

Damn.

Chelsea will need to keep they squad they have just now, pretty much intact, for the next 2 seasons if they want to win anything.

Carlo cannae be chuffed, imagine going to Chelsea and getting this massive amount of money to spend, then being told "aye no for two transfer windows".

Timmy · 3rd September 2009, 9:46pm

Especially when he promised to go get Pato next year.

I'm Your God Now · 3rd September 2009, 9:58pm

Lolz.

Zippy · 4th September 2009, 8:13am

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Originally Posted by Jaemi

FIFA make rules up as they go along.
How can you ban an employee from taking on employees?
There are ways and means, Chelsea will sign players and leave them on loan at their current club, ala Alex.

They've done it before, Roma had the same ban placed on them when they signed Mexes and it was reduced to one game on appeal. If that happens Chelsea will be able to sign players next summer.

Timmy · 5th September 2009, 10:26am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ea/8239141.stm

Now, i'm stuck in two minds now whether this is the right thing to do... I refer you to evidence A.

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Originally Posted by Evidence A

A French football agent, who wishes to remain anonymous for professional reasons, told BBC Sport: "If Lens or Le Havre were legally able to sign the two players to contracts they would definitely have done it already.

"But French law prevents players from signing contracts if they under 16 and haven't achieved the requisite level at school.

"The clubs can make agreements with these players that say they will give them a contract when they have attained the right educational qualification of turned 16.

"It is a pre-contract. It is called an 'accord de norm sollicitation' in French. It is a written agreement between club and player.

"That is what Kakuta and Pogba had. Fifa is clearly now saying these accords are as good as contracts, while Chelsea and Manchester United are saying they are not."

Fifa punished Switzerland's FC Sion for a similar offence to Chelsea's in April and the club was told it could not sign players until the 2010 off-season.

Sion have appealed to Cas, which has frozen the sanctions while it considers the case, allowing the club to trade before the current season began. A ruling is expected later this year.

Italian club Roma were banned from signing players for two transfer windows in 2004, over their move for Auxerre's Philippe Mexes, after they appealed to Cas and their suspension was reduced to one window.

The arbitration panel will be made up by one judge selected by Chelsea, one by Lens and the chairman will be from Cas.

So, the contract the player broke, wasn't really a legal contract, more of a written gentlemans agreement?

Jaemi · 5th September 2009, 1:02pm

Aye, this just reeks of FIFA/UEFA making up their own special, but entirely unenforcable, laws.

XMachina · 18th September 2009, 9:54am

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...transfer-helan

A club that accused Man City of tapping up is charged with the same offence. So much for the footballing authorities picking on English teams as we heard numerous times when Chelsea got their ban.