Transfer ban on the way?

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BREAKING: Chelsea are expected to handed a two-year ban Announced early 2019 . [Swiss daily newspaper Zurichsee Zeitung]

According to the source, Chelsea will receive this ban for illegally signing 14 players aged 18 and under, Including Bertrand Traore, Who chelsea apparentley first signed when he was 16.

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Apparently the article doesn't even mention a ban. Even if true, where the fuck does City stand in all this.!!!?

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Chelsea are also going to try and tie up deals for players to join next summer, several sources believe Pulisic has already agreed to join next summer. The number of new contracts handed out recently is a sign that the ban is coming, as Chelsea want to keep their best players

 

Several sources believe that Chelsea are working everyday behind the scenes with different clubs to get players to join next summer, as they can’t act in January when they receive the ban.

 

sounds flimsy tbh

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If we receive the ban in January, and it's for 2 years, how are those deals going to go through in the summer?  Doesn't make sense.

I'd guess that the ban gets handed down and we appeal it which may allow us to do business this January (which sucks because no one wants to sell important players mid-way through the season), or possibly we could appeal it to try to have it reduced to a year (like the Madrid club and Barcelona got) and have it take effect after the summer window.  We'll see what happens.

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Could it be deliberately self inflicted.?

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Nothing surprises me right now. We are being made the king of scapegoats yet again. They will probably do everything in their power to make us an example.

We need to get at least a couple of upgrades sorted just in case the sods are after us.

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its reaching but could it be possible to secure targets on contracts essentially making signings before we get put back on the naughty step dodging this supposed ban? A ban would block the paperwork maybe?

I read a while back this ban would probably  affect youth players not first team.

this has been going on for like 2 years!

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7 hours ago, Warning_Hazard said:

its reaching but could it be possible to secure targets on contracts essentially making signings before we get put back on the naughty step dodging this supposed ban? A ban would block the paperwork maybe?

I read a while back this ban would probably  affect youth players not first team.

this has been going on for like 2 years!

Correct me if I am wrong I think Everton Liverpool and city got similar ban from signing youth players 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/05/liverpool-banned-signing-academy-players-fined-stoke

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/11/08/everton-banned-signing-players-aged-10-18-two-years-tapping/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/05/manchester-city-hit-transfer-ban-signing-academy-players/

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3 hours ago, the wes said:

Correct me if I am wrong I think Everton Liverpool and city got similar ban from signing youth players 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/05/liverpool-banned-signing-academy-players-fined-stoke

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/11/08/everton-banned-signing-players-aged-10-18-two-years-tapping/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/05/manchester-city-hit-transfer-ban-signing-academy-players/

We are repeat offenders and 2 years is the punishment being pushed hard.

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I may be misremembering, but I don't recall any verdict against Chelsea which could represent a first offence. Obviously to be regarded as repeat offenders we'd need to have at least one guilty verdict on the record. I grant that, although the club would want us to see the outcome of the Kakuta transfer investigation as a vindication, that case seems only to have gone away after being settled out of court. As far as I'm aware the initial guilty charge in that case was quashed when the two clubs reached agreement. If I've got the facts right then that case is definitely not on the books as a first offence.

Am I remembering that situation incorrectly, or is there another case altogether that I've forgotten about?

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31 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

I may be misremembering, but I don't recall any verdict against Chelsea which could represent a first offence. Obviously to be regarded as repeat offenders we'd need to have at least one guilty verdict on the record. I grant that, although the club would want us to see the outcome of the Kakuta transfer investigation as a vindication, that case seems only to have gone away after being settled out of court. As far as I'm aware the initial guilty charge in that case was quashed when the two clubs reached agreement. If I've got the facts right then that case is definitely not on the books as a first offence.

Am I remembering that situation incorrectly, or is there another case altogether that I've forgotten about?

https://news.sky.com/story/chelsea-being-investigated-by-fifa-over-youth-transfer-policy-11044833

The West London club were banned from signing players for two transfer windows in 2009, a penalty they had overturned on appeal in 2010, over Gael Kakuta's 2007 move from Lens to Stamford Bridge.

They were also investigated over the transfer of Bertrand Traore, the Burkina Faso international who was signed after his 18th birthday but had appeared in an under-18 match in 2011 while still 16.

 

 

The penalty was overturned, not the finding of guilty.

 

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Chelsea: Fifa allegedly recommends Blues handed two-year transfer ban after signing of minors

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46218627