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Originally Posted by Taipan
Yes. And you did. A hotly contested contract I might add, but still a contract. Yet to be tested in court.
But even if you tested that contract in court and won there is no way you could have got his registration without Lyn's forgery. Unless you can read those fifa transfer regulations and come up with something better than sending in a request to the Norwegian FA for Mikel's ITC and hope they don't reply in 30 days as Hairdryer did.
Chelsea paid you to secure his registration. But for Lyn's forgery, his registration was never United's to sell. At best you had a worthless contract with Mikel. It was worthless because you couldn't get his registration without Lyn's forged contract - unless you sent in your request for an ITC to the Norwegian FA and they didn't reply in 30 days, of course.
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1) United's contract with Mikel had nothing to do with Lyn, and Lyn's contract with Mikel.
2) The forged contract aside, Mikel was still a Lyn player, on an amateur contract.
3) Irrelevant of Mikel's relationship with Lyn, United could have signed him on a free, if Lyn had not held Mikel's registration.
4) All of this is irrelevant, seeing as Chelsea, Manchester United, Lyn and Mikel made a settlement.
5) If United's contract with Mikel was not legal, then surely Chelsea's current contract with Mikel is not legal, hence Mikel would be a free agent and free to join any club he wants now.
6) I don't think Chelsea would want to take this any further, in fear of what could be revealed in terms of their breach of FIFA rules...