Adrian Silva: arrives at Leicester 14 seconds too late

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http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41118927

Fifa has rejected Leicester City's application to register midfielder Adrien Silva after the club missed the deadline by 14 seconds.

The Foxes signed the midfielder from Sporting Lisbon for £22m but finalised parts of the deal near the close of the summer transfer window on 31 August.

Silva's registration was not completed in time with football's governing body meaning he is ineligible until January.

Leicester are in the process of trying to appeal against the decision.
It would be funnier if it happened to Liverpool, Arse, Chelsea, Madrid etc.
 

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for the sake of 14 seconds, you'd think FIFA would see sense.

Isnt is right that if no registered, Leicester have to pay him until Jan?
 

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for the sake of 14 seconds, you'd think FIFA would see sense.
But then whats the point in a deadline?

They had all summer to do these deals, if you want to mess around and wait until deadline day then you have yourself to blame.
 

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for the sake of 14 seconds, you'd think FIFA would see sense.

Isnt is right that if no registered, Leicester have to pay him until Jan?
They mentioned that on Talksport yesterday. That he is their player, but cannot be registered until January and that they will be paying him although he isn't playing yet.
 

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Sounds unfair. But if this was the small margin that prevented De Gea from joining Madrid, I'm all for it!
 

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But then whats the point in a deadline?

They had all summer to do these deals, if you want to mess around and wait until deadline day then you have yourself to blame.
Chelsea coming in so late for Drinkwater probably didn't help the situation. One was likely dependent on the other.
 

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He'd have made it in time few years back during his prime.
 

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Chelsea coming in so late for Drinkwater probably didn't help the situation. One was likely dependent on the other.
It's unfortunate. I want Leicester to do well. But if one club is granted permission, then all clubs will start asking for extra time to get their deals done. A rule is a rule no matter who it is.
 

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Chelsea coming in so late for Drinkwater probably didn't help the situation. One was likely dependent on the other.
Agreed. Without deadline day, the transfer muppets would die. :lol:

But in all seriousness, if they weren't confident of completing the deal in time, they simply shouldn't have sold Drinkwater, ala Wenger with Sanchez/Lemar.

But 14 seconds is a bit ridiculous.
 

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Brutal, but I suppose as soon as you start extending by 14 seconds it becomes a minute, two minutes then hours and days.
 

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Them's the rules.

A matter of seconds it may be, but if FIFA let it slide, what defence would they have to similar situations in the future? Everyone would expect the same leniency.

Hugely frustrating for Leicester though, particularly as they let Drinkwater go.
 

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i think a margin of one or two minutes would be ok too. There are a lot of cases in life where there is a margin of a few percent still ok
 

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Them's the rules.

A matter of seconds it may be, but if FIFA let it slide, what defence would they have to similar situations in the future? Everyone would expect the same leniency.

Hugely frustrating for Leicester though, particularly as they let Drinkwater go.
If it's literally a matter of seconds, then yeah FIFA should do the same in future.

It's common sense isn't it? If someone comes with something 10 minutes late, then they're probably taking the piss a bit.
 

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Think of it like this, 14 seconds has cost a footballer 4 months of playing time, and its not even his fault. I think it's punishing Silva more than it punishes Leicester.
 

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Can't really blame FIFA here. Leicester made a huge mistake, which probably will cost the job to some people.

And I thought this things only happened in the Portuguese league :D
 

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If it's literally a matter of seconds, then yeah FIFA should do the same in future.

It's common sense isn't it? If someone comes with something 10 minutes late, then they're probably taking the piss a bit.
Well, if anyone can use their discretion it's FIFA.
 

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Is this not what happened with DDG? He ended up staying here, so this guy should go back to his previous club instead of wasting away half a season.
I doubt Madrid acquired the rights to his player registration.
 

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Idiots, why leave it so late to sign a player ?
Chelsea came for Drinkwater they didn't really have much of a say in the matter. They will sell players this year if their valuation is met.
 

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Them's the rules.

A matter of seconds it may be, but if FIFA let it slide, what defence would they have to similar situations in the future? Everyone would expect the same leniency.

Hugely frustrating for Leicester though, particularly as they let Drinkwater go.
Then they can show a degree of leniency towards every case which falls so close to the deadline. That's hardly an issue, and doesn't disrupt the current set of rules in place - it just allows for common sense to prevail under the correct circumstances if FIFA decide that there was a genuine attempt to meet the deadline from the offset. FIFA are still in control of the laws so it's hardly something clubs will be able to take advantage of.

I don't know the ins and outs of this particular deal but if it had to be forced through due to Drinkwater moving to Chelsea at such late notice (which may have had nothing to do with Leicester, they might have sanctioned the move a while back and were waiting for the confirmation from Chelsea in order to open up funds) then the argument here essentially pitches the trajectory of a player's career and the state of various football clubs who weren't necessarily at fault for the transfer taking place at such late notice against the sheer unwillingness of FIFA to look at the potential that there could be a just reason as to why the deal was submitted 14 seconds too late. Given the amount of money FIFA extract from the game, I'm sure they could - at a push - work out a way for a team to be on stand by to assess the validity of transfers that are submitted within a few minutes of the official deadline. Although what I might be describing could well be the appeal process that Leicester are (I believe) currently going through, in which case ignore the above.
 

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Chelsea came for Drinkwater they didn't really have much of a say in the matter. They will sell players this year if their valuation is met.
They didn't ? If he wasn't a free transfer then they still could have told Chelsea to wait as they needed time for a replacement.
 

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I love when people say rules are rules as if nobody is allowed to apply even slightest amount of logic while dealing with situations like this. They were just seconds off which was in no way players fault and now he will be forced to spend four months without any football because of it. Nobody is saying they should be allowed an extra day or even several hours but when it's a matter of seconds, such small that it could simply be down to two clocks set up differently, governing bodies should use sense instead of book
 

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Stupid bastards have months to sign players but leave it until the last few seconds.
 

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Is this not what happened with DDG? He ended up staying here, so this guy should go back to his previous club instead of wasting away half a season.
I think what happened with DDG was that Real never submitted their side of the transfer, so while we did on our side, without the papers from Real then no transfer took place.

Here it sounds like both clubs submitted their documents and thus the transfer went through, it's just the subsequent registration by Leicester that's failed?
 

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I love when people say rules are rules as if nobody is allowed to apply even slightest amount of logic while dealing with situations like this. They were just seconds off which was in no way players fault and now he will be forced to spend four months without any football because of it. Nobody is saying they should be allowed an extra day or even several hours but when it's a matter of seconds, such small that it could simply be down to two clocks set up differently, governing bodies should use sense instead of book
Or perhaps football clubs should use some sense instead and not leave their business until the last few hours of the transfer window. Then they wouldn't need to whinge about failing to meet the deadline by 14 seconds.
 

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FIFA have absolutely done the right thing, whether it's 14 seconds past the deadline or 14 hours, it's still past the deadline.

If they'd let Leicester off with this, then somebody next window registers somebody 30 seconds late.. They're only 16 seconds later than Leicester, and you let them off... etc etc. It would set a precedent that the deadline is final, unless you're only just over it, then it's still ok.

They have to stick to a deadline. Sucks to be him and having to wait to play.. But i'd take his wage for 4 months of doing feck all.