1 out of the Reus sweepstakes
(unless they can somehow get Dortmund to sell him this window)
My thoughts instantly.Now we just need to win a European cup to prove we're still competitive. Oh, wait......
Barca Transfer ban - upheld - pointlessly
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My thoughts instantly.Now we just need to win a European cup to prove we're still competitive. Oh, wait......
The International Champions Cup doesn't count?
Now we just need to win a European cup to prove we're still competitive. Oh, wait......
They do, and that is fair. How about when the substance of your appeal is "yes we broke the rules, but we have La Masia so we are special"?
Then it gets denied and they wasted a shitload of money on legal costs. Either you have the right to appeal or not. If you have, then you can't be punished for doing it. That would be absurd.
If the signings they've made this summer don't end up failing, it's virtually pointless.
Absolutely. It's only the English FA that, of any quasi-legal body anywhere in the world, as far as I know use the concept of a 'frivolous' appeal. Even the word frivolous is ridiculous.
Hardly, an appeal is usually deemed frivolous by the FA when it can't be disputed and the appeal is used to allow the player to play a certain match.
They shouldn't have announced the ban until after the window closed, then the appeal, suspension and decision could've been made between windows.
Can't remember the incident but according to that he slapped another player in the face? An appeal was always going to fail.
He still has the right to appeal though? If new evidence appears and that evidence justifies a harsher punishment, fair enough. That's a risk you take when you appeal a decision in court and agree to open the case again. Increasing the ban for appealing is absurd though. You punish someone for using his rights, that can't be legal.
It was an utterly ludicrous sending off. He barely touched the other guy (Mascherano?) and if I remember rightly Mascherano had smacked him in the face just before hand and got away with it scot free.