Why Chelsea should not attempt to freeze their transfer ban

[James 5,201]

It was confirmed yesterday that Chelsea would be appealing their transfer ban to CAS, but have not specifically asked for it to be frozen. This latest update follows on a long period of silence, where it was becoming taking as ready that we were going to take the punishment, for fear of it being extended to three […]

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[Vesper 28,864]

It is playing out almost exactly as I have suspected for ages. I just hope the board tears it up in summer 2020. If they fuck up that window, we could be looking at a long run of non-top 4 footie. Of course the club may be sold by then too. I have zero clue as to the long term outlook, other than are rapidly ageing players will be worth a vastly lower amount by summer 2020. Azpi, Alonso, Luiz, Drinkwater, Pedro, Willian, Giroud, etc will all be well into their 30's or nearing it.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

The part where you ask them to freeze it under article R37 is completely seperate to the appeal. They are 2 different things altogether,  I think for now we have just made sure the appeal is in, and IMO will ask to freeze it in next week or 2