The Transfer Ban

[Laylabelle 9,337]

From the Daily Star so really doubt theres much truth into it and if does become true just shows the system is well crap!!But dont see how they would be able to/get permisson to do this

Fifa has warned Chelsea they could have their worldwide transfer banfor poaching Lens teenager Gael Kakuta increased if they lose an appealagainst the original punishment, which prevents them buying playersuntil January 2011.

From BBC gossip do dah..so enough said

[Kez 2,727]

:thumbsdown: don't know how true that is but if it is thats absolute bollocks

[Drogba11CFC 108]

Obviously free speech doesn't exist in football...

[Para6iT 2]

Bla bla bla.. CRAP!!!

nonsense.

[bombayblue™ 55]

Does anyone honestly think that the club signed Kakuta knowing full well he was under some contract that would wind us up in trouble?

Of course they didn't, Chelsea will have done what they did believing that they had the right to.

Everyone likes a scapegoat and Frank Arnesen seems to be easy pickings. Fact it is looks like we are being punished for something that isn't even clear if we did anything wrong. And even if we DID the punishment is not in proportion to the crime.

Excellent Post Esk..

As far as I'm concerned, whilst Arnesen picks up his £50,000 a week wage-packet, its the academy coaches who develop these players, not him.

yeah but had Arnesen not being doing his job, we'd not have players of this high talent to develop, at all...

[BlueLion. 21,491]

It's actually true, should we lose the appeal our band can be extended.

[Kez 2,727]

Where's the justice in that?

[ChelseaChick 430]

thats fucking ridiculous

[diskoviolente 425]

it appears to me that this story will cost Chelsea Football Club so much.

Carlo tries to give us a new appearance, humble and dedicated...

and out of nothing FIFA/UEFA spills out it´s hatred for us and tries to ruin us.

i am not too concerned about this season, more over next season if the ban is not reduced to this year.

and for the ACON time the teams we´ve to play against there are doable without our African boys...

[ZanSnake 1,211]

I knew something like extending something after a unsucessful apeal happens in other certain things in the world, but in a sport like football, seems kind of unjustified. I think it mostly happens with prisoners, doesn't it? If so then that's what we have been treated like, and if not, then we are being treated worse then actually criminals, totally unjustful.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

This is what old-chairman Ken Bates had to say about the whole thing(in general, not just about Chelsea):

<h1 class="main-headline">Bates slams transfer policy</h1>

Leeds chairman criticises big clubs in the transfer market

Former Chelsea chairman Ken Bates has slammed the way big clubs pinch rising stars from other teams.

The Blues were hit this week as Fifa banned them fromsigning any players during the next two transfer windows after theypoached teenager Gael Kakuta from Lens in 2007 - a decision the Stamford Bridge outfit will appeal.

Bates, current Leeds chairman, won a reported £5million compensation in 2006 after Chelsea signed youngsters Michael Woods and Tom Taiwo from the Whites, and he criticised the methods that top clubs use in recruiting promising talent.

"The problem here is that the big clubs are stripping the small clubs of their youngsters," Bates told the Daily Mail.

"They are like Japanese fishing trawlers, just sweeping up everything in their nets.

"Right now some of these boys are just being traded like horsemeat."

Source: SkySports

They did the same with Febian Delph and Bradford. In the end they had to do something like giving Bradford money from when he left for Villa.

[Laylabelle 9,337]

Its like red cards.If you appeal and loose then you get an extra ban..which makes you think what is the bloody point in even trying?!Makes little sense and is unjust and if they do it to us..god help them!

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Ken Bates can fuck off, his club are notorious for poaching players.

[the wes 7,212]

[chelsea_4_eva 1,157]

can you add platini to that....

<H1 itxtvisited="1">UEFA President Michel Platini Endorses FIFA's Sanctions Against Chelsea</H1>Chelsea's FIFA-imposed transfer embargo has received backing from Platini...

FIFA's decision to slap Chelsea with a ban from entering the transfer market for the next two windows - applicable until January 2011 - for their apparent poaching of French teenager Gael Kakuta, has received the support of UEFA president Michel Platini who has long opposed the transfers of younger players.

The west London side, as well as Kakuta, were also handed penalty fines for their involvement in the affair.

Platini, speaking to The Sun, explained that he supports any sanctions imposed on offenders, as the transfers, and the tapping-up of, youngsters must cease to exist.

"It's a Fifa decision but we're interested in what happens. It is necessary to make rules in the transfer market of young players. I say this not because Chelsea or another team is involved, but the illegal traffic of young players has to be stopped."

According to Sky Sports, Chelsea could also find themselves in further hot water for the manner in which they attempted to sign 11-year-old Jeremy Boga, who spent five years with amateur French club ASPTT Marseille.

Alan Dawson, Goal.com UK<BR itxtvisited="1">

[Kez 2,727]

Platini backing Chelsea punishment? Shocking

[the wes 7,212]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/490423/Chelsea-transfer-ban.html

[the wes 7,212]

THE Dane at the centre of the Chelsea poaching storm has courted controversy since arriving in 2005, when Tottenham claimed he was approached illegally. The Blues ended up paying £5million compensation.

2006: Chelsea accused of tapping-up Leeds' Michael Woods and Tom Taiwo. Pay £5m out of court.

2006: Arnesen (right) secretly filmed by the BBC offering £150,000 to Nathan Porritt, 15. The player was attached to Middlesbrough.

2007: Relationship with manager Jose Mourinho breaks down and is reportedly close to leaving Stamford Bridge. Instead, Mourinho leaves in September.

2008: Reggina report Chelsea to Italian FA, claiming contact with Vincenzo Camilleri before he was 16.

2009: Arnesen promoted to role of sporting director at Stamford Bridge.

newsoftheworld

Edited September 5, 2009 by the wes