Chelsea Looking To Postpone Tranfer Ban
Filed under: Chelsea, Suspensions
With FIFA ruling that Chelsea has to sit on the Transfer sidelines until January 2011 after being found guilty of inducing French teenager Gael Kakuta to break his contract with Lens, reports coming out of Europe has the Premiership club approaching the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) about a possible postponement.
Via EUFootballBiz
English Chelsea Football Club has approached to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) requesting that it put a hold on the transfer ban, imposed by FIFA, until a verdict has been reached on the appeal.
FIFA applied a ban on Chelsea’s transfer activity until 2011 once the club was at fault when player Gael Kakuta breached his contract in 2007 with Lens. The player is banned from professional matches for four months. Kakuta and Chelsea must compensate GBP 710,000 to Lens as part of the penalty.
Chelsea owes a further ‘training compensation’ of GBP 118,000 to Lens.
Should the ban be postponed, the club will be able to participate in transfer activities this coming January. No date has been set by the Court to hear the appeal as of yet.
This is stupid. Just ban them. It’s ruining the game. Greed ruins everything good in the world. Sickening.
shut up baldguy. You can punish one team for a sports problem.
obviously meant can’t.
[…] Chelsea’s appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the Transfer Ban handed down by FIFA (that would have seen the London based club unable to sign any players until 2011) has been accepted until a final decision can be made around the early spring of 2010. […]