I hope if any frivolous appeal is met with a further ban, it's a joke clubs are allowed to get away with an appeal when it's such an obvious delaying tactic. Chelsea would have known this was coming so any business should have been done in January or even last summer
Chelsea given two-window transfer ban | Free to sign players in January
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That just seems like a breach of trading laws. They should be able to sign the player but not play them until the the ban is lifted. Bizarre.
at the notion that the supporters of the "biggest football club of England" so relieved and happy that they won't have to deal with the threat posed by a "small time plastic club". You are every bit like those Rawk people whom you love to ridicule.
Imagine rival club fans being happy that club that broke the rule is fined and banned.Yeah because one or two fans talk for the millions around the world don't they
What about the likes of Higuain and Kovacic who are currently on loan?
Maybe, but as has been mentioned it is if Roman wants to spend the amount of money it will take to cover two transfer windows. Also mass spending like that can lead to panic/bad signings.
They can extend Higuain's loan.
Pretty sure Juve want to sell...
They can if they like. I would love to see what shape he is in after a nice summer break.
They will still be banned for 2020 January and Summer windows in that case. There's only so much players they can buy this summer, especially as the selling clubs will know they are desperate and demand a premium.
Barcelona did it with Arda Turan for example.
Higauin is on an 18 month loan is he not?
This ban wont affect Pulisic.
Chelsea will be able to register players when they appeal to both FIFA and CAS. Unfortunately for Chelsea, this news is almost confirmation that Hazard and Odoi will be sold. Chelsea run a business model that is heavily dependent on player sales. You can have a look at SwissRamble on twitter to confirm this. They will need to raise as much cash as possible so they can fill as many holes as possible. The good thing for them is they have a lot of players to sell. I could see them easily raking in £200m+ this summer.
Chelsea will be able to register players when they appeal to both FIFA and CAS. Unfortunately for Chelsea, this news is almost confirmation that Hazard and Odoi will be sold. Chelsea run a business model that is heavily dependent on player sales. You can have a look at SwissRamble on twitter to confirm this. They will need to raise as much cash as possible so they can fill as many holes as possible. The good thing for them is they have a lot of players to sell. I could see them easily raking in £200m+ this summer.
Apparently we were going to try and sign Zouma on a perm transfer, or at least see if Chelsea were willing to manouevere on a deal. It might be a stumbling block for many of the loans they have ongoing at the moment, and it would be even worse if they all came back and they couldn't get rid of them. I'd be surprised if anything serious comes from this anyway, every other club under these rules have found ways around it, so will Chelsea.
Is it time for Roman to pull out?
What on earth is this?
They'll get good money for Bakayoko, at least. He's been excellent for Milan. I'm convinced they'll pay a good price to keep him playing alongside Kessie.
Poor Hazard? Ha! His new contract is going to have a blank box for his salary and he’ll be able to write whatever number he wants in there.
Hazard is leaving on a free next summer then
The key element here is that the FA have been sanctioned. From what I have read the main issue is that the FA agreed to the policy which in effect allowed players like Tarore to play in matches that were classified as trial matches prior to the age of 18. It has been confirmed the FA are going to appeal.
There is no doubt that Chelsea will lodge an appeal toward the end of the 90 day window which takes the process through to mid May.
What then follows is that there is little or no chance of the appeal process being finalised by the time the summer window opens around June 7th. Irrespective of how fast FIFA move I would suspect that a final appeal would be made to CAS which again all takes time.
The number of players supposedly involved is no where near the same as Atletico were charged with and likewise they were hit with a two window ban whereas Real and Barcelona weren’t hit with anything like Chelsea have now been so I would expect that ban to be reduced to just one window.
Finally this is the first result from the long term FIFA investigation into English clubs the strong rumour is that other PL clubs will likewise be hit with fines and or bans so I wouldn’t be jumping to any conclusions just at this point .
There is no doubt that Chelsea will lodge an appeal toward the end of the 90 day window which takes the process through to mid May.
What then follows is that there is little or no chance of the appeal process being finalised by the time the summer window opens around June 7th. Irrespective of how fast FIFA move I would suspect that a final appeal would be made to CAS which again all takes time.
The number of players supposedly involved is no where near the same as Atletico were charged with and likewise they were hit with a two window ban whereas Real and Barcelona weren’t hit with anything like Chelsea have now been so I would expect that ban to be reduced to just one window.
Finally this is the first result from the long term FIFA investigation into English clubs the strong rumour is that other PL clubs will likewise be hit with fines and or bans so I wouldn’t be jumping to any conclusions just at this point .
Hazard, Morata, CHO. Who else can they sell for an appreciable amount? I doubt they'll get 100m for Hazard as he's in his last year and Real probably won't be bullied into paying that much. Giroud, Willian and Pedro are all in their 30s and won't likely fetch that much. Would they envisage selling Kante?
Chelsea have 3 days to appeal.
There's really not much FIFA can do. 90 days to appeal is the international standard anywhere in the world. Chelsea can appeal to both FIFA and CAS and precedent dictates clubs should not be punished while the appeals process is on.
I don't think FIFA are even keen on making it water tight either.
It hurts, right?
This could actually be good for them. They have so many good players on loan might force them to start using their younger academy players.
There was lot of news about City and transfer ban.
Not quite sure that will hurt them as they have already started their summer recruitment process and the timing of the announcement should enable them to get any ban suspended past the summer window pending appeal.
Chelsea have rejected £50+ bids for Willian in the last year. The guy is willing to go to China. The also have a host of players out on loan. Zouma for example should fetch circa £20m from Everton, Bakayoko is also there. Think £200m is doable.
We are talking about Chelsea, they could probably rake in £200m just by selling Drinkwater and Bakayoko.
Won’t have any effect on players already at Chelsea or indeed returning from loan.
Now if only They would investigate City's brother club in USA and their sponsors.
I'm not relieved. Chelsea aren't going to get any players we want, and I wanted to take Kante off you. If you are banned, Chelsea will now seek to keep their best players at all costs.
Perfectly set up for the return of Jose. They have an ageing squad full of players who don't score many goals, he'll love it.
They might also sack Sarri now anyway since he was counting on the transfer window to bring in players to suit his style, if allowed to stay on.
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They'll appeal, sign a bunch of players in the summer and then get through the other transfer windows
You should still be fine with Chelsea appealing. My guess is they appeal and end up only being banned for a winter window. The bigger issue with signing Zouma is probably if Christensen is adamant on leaving Chelsea and Luiz doesn't extend along with Cahill leaving.
Might be better for you if you don't get Zouma anyway. Chelsea will be asking for a high fee and there are better players you can sign. He's not quite been the same since his injury.
Will there appeal be rejected? Sure Barcelona got their appeal but they only signed like 5 players. Chelsea signed 28!