As it should. Preposterous decision.
FIFA ban Barcelona from signing any players for next 2 transfer windows for breaches relating
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Didn't Chelsea have similar once that they appealed against?
But now they have to hold on to their players as well! I was confident we were gonna get Messi and Iniesta this summer
I bet Rossell is happy he's jumped ship already.
I should imagine this is what Barca will do. They'll find a way of deeming that the contracts of the two young players weren't valid, and they might lose a few hundred thousand euro's along the way.
Yes, a call to Roman and discussions on money needed for settlement must be ongoing as we speak.
Every big club United included are always breaking the rules of transfers (tapping up etc..) and nothing ever happens about it. Get off your high horse.
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Well strictly speaking Balague is a sports journalist as well. Not like they never come out with statements that are just rumors or completely made up. I just think Twitter should never be used as a source for anything but that's probably due to my personal hate for the site.
Does this mean we can let De Gea go to the World Cup without having to worry about some of their players putting a Barca shirt on him?
You are spoiling all the fun for Barca-haters now.
In other news, no way on earth this will stand. FIFA trying to act strict, usual politics.
They are more than a club. A swindling institution. They will surely know how to settle it.
Didn't Chelsea have a similar sanction overturned a short while ago?
I don't see it being carried through after an appeal. If it is genuine wrongdoing I hope they do get punished but I imagine they'll get out of it.
I don't see it being carried through after an appeal. If it is genuine wrongdoing I hope they do get punished but I imagine they'll get out of it.
I assumed this was about Neymar. I imagine they'll find a way out of it, but seeing as this season is almost over, it could harm their transfer dealings this summer if the appeal process drags out.
I'm not a Barca hater, but I'd love to see them handed a transfer ban after their antics during the Fabregas saga when he left Arsenal. But the reality is that any major club will know the repercussions of their actions but also the measures needed to make sure that there aren't any meaningful sanctions against them.
Give me a break. Real and Barca are much worse than your average big club. The Neymar transfer alone deserves punishment but as far as I'm aware, nothing's been done by FIFA.
Not an April Fool, FIFA has it on their website as well
No idea what the implications are as the wording of the transfer ban isn't clear about whether it relates to U18 transfers into the academy or senior players over the age of 18. Can't imagine the latter being true but we'll see how it ends up as I imagine there is an appeals process
In the shorter term, more concerned about what this means for several gems in the cantera, not the least of which is Lee Seung Woo which most of this centers around. It was announced in the local papers that he had an agreement to stay at the club and wait until he's 18 (Jan 2016) before he can play an official match with any of the youth teams - turning down more lucrative offers to go to Chelsea, Liverpool etc.
It really is, it's not as if these youth players were poached or put into some juvenile work camps - they joined Barcelona's academy which beyond football included schooling. This initial complaint to FIFA was brought forward by an unnamed club, one guess which one that was.
No idea what the implications are as the wording of the transfer ban isn't clear about whether it relates to U18 transfers into the academy or senior players over the age of 18. Can't imagine the latter being true but we'll see how it ends up as I imagine there is an appeals process
In the shorter term, more concerned about what this means for several gems in the cantera, not the least of which is Lee Seung Woo which most of this centers around. It was announced in the local papers that he had an agreement to stay at the club and wait until he's 18 (Jan 2016) before he can play an official match with any of the youth teams - turning down more lucrative offers to go to Chelsea, Liverpool etc.
It is one thing to dislike a club and its conduct, and it quite another imposing transfer bans because of the signing of children in the youth teams. Totally different things, and disproportionate reaction from FIFA if it goes through, which I am certain it will not.
Dear me 
The punishment clearly relates to the signing of players under the age of 18. Now, from what I understand, the transfer ban relates to all players, so if it goes through, then we cannot sign a single player this summer or in January. But I am 99% certain that this will be appealed against successfully. But with lots of legal shenanigans along the way.
They'll appeal & while it's a legal wrangle - they'll still go ahead and sign players. Or doesn't an appeal work that way?
How and when you decided that the decision is a justified one?
What makes you so certain it will be successfully appealed?
I am sorry to break several bubbles on these thread, but when was the last time such a decision stood against a major and prestigious European club such as FC Barcelona? No chance it will stand, it's just the usual politics surrounding football. Some teams will have to receive some sort of compensation and it will quickly revert to normality.
They should be banned from transfers after the Neymar affair anyway.
See above.
Even if it isn't, it's extremely wild to just pass off the judgement as "preposterous decision" and be convinced by that.
I am sure that Real Madrid, Espanyol, Atletico, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, PSG, Man City, Arsenal etc all agree with you.
It'll get over turned people.
When was the last time a major club received such a punishment for such a type of offence, of which I am sure there are myriads throughout the world of football.
they will appeal and the ban will lifted.
It's such an unusual case to begin with as Article 19 is rarely imposed unless there has been a complaint by a specific body/club. The exception to the rule of signing U18 players is the following:
- The player’s parents move to the club’s country for non-football related purposes.
- The transfer occurs within the territory of the European Union or the European Economic Area and the player being within 16 to 18 years of age.
- The players lives 50km from a border shared by the club’s country, with the club being within 50km of that same border.
Club is already preparing an appeal and will make a statement this afternoon concerning the FIFA ban. Chelsea's ban was actually shady yet they successfully appealed it, I expect no less
Chelsea. However, the complainants received a compensation and withdrew the case, which is not the case with Barcelona as stated by FCBarca.
The fact they've sanctioned the Spanish FA as well suggests it might be more serious than you assume.
It's also different from the Chelsea case, which was in relation to a transfer within the EU. This sounds like it's regarding players from outside the EU, in addition it's in relation to ten transfers not just one.
On the other hand FIFA's instruction to Barca to “to regularize the situation of all minor players concerned.” suggests that this is their way out of the situation. Regularise probably means "pay off the effected clubs".
I won't be at all surprised if it's overturned but FIFA will be even more of a laughing stock if it is so I'll be interested to see how this plays out.
i wonder how many times we'll go in for fabregas this summer knowing they aren't allowed to sell any players.
It is such a minor issue, and the punishment of such gravity that it really smacks of some very low-level politics. The possibility that a major club will receive such a penalty for something so minor is virtually zero. It's ridiculous they even went on with this.
How are we going to sign Messi now?
Sounds like the protection of European kids listed as an exception to art. 19 was really an opportunity for English clubs to poach as they please. Its a preposterous ban