Barcelona transfer ban

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This is 10 different players and it's related to them breaking FIFA rules, Chelsea's was one player and they simply fucked over the club they bought the player from. It'll be a lot harder to overturn this.
 
They will appeal. They will request that the punishment is suspended for the duration of the appeal procedure. They will sign everyone under the sun in the Summer and mitigate the damage caused if they then lose the appeal and are transfer banned. Nantes did something similar last Summer.
 
It has apparently been suspended pending an appeal. They can sign players now. What's the point then?
 
KarlM said:
It has apparently been suspended pending an appeal. They can sign players now. What's the point then?
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:lol::lol:

Suspended on appeal? So basically open up the transfer window, let them sign loads of players and even if they are found to still be in the wrong it won't matter? An absolute joke
 
KarlM said:
It has apparently been suspended pending an appeal. They can sign players now. What's the point then?
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Was always going to happen. Just wait until the appeal when it'll be given as a 2 year suspended sentence.

Massive signing spree this summer coming though.
 
Nothing to see here, just standard procedure. They can't actually punish them (and convict them of something they might be innocent of) until the appeal has been heard.
 
sonofagun said:
Nothing to see here, just standard procedure. They can't actually punish them (and convict them of something they might be innocent of) until the appeal has been heard.
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The fact remains that they'll just sign a bucket load of players before any possible ban, negating the point of it completely.
 
TartanMackem said:
They will appeal. They will request that the punishment is suspended for the duration of the appeal procedure. They will sign everyone under the sun in the Summer and mitigate the damage caused if they then lose the appeal and are transfer banned. Nantes did something similar last Summer.
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Top work there Sir!
 
FootballFan said:
Corruption at work surely.
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It's standard. The appeal procedure takes months, longer than the time between now and the opening of the transfer window. It would be unfair to uphold the ban while the appeal is ongoing, because there is always the possibility that they might win the appeal. So if the won the appeal, but the ban hadn't been suspended then they would have been unfairly banned from signing players.

Suspending the sanction pending the outcome of the appeal, in cases like this, is the only real option available so as not to unfairly prejudice a team.

In any case, this is an internal appeal. If theylose, they will appeal again to CAS, so in all likelihood, they'll have the January window open to them as well.
 
Suspended on appeal! That's like the judicial system of the Philippines. (Imelda Marcos was sentenced to between 18-24 years in prison for corruption, but was released on bail and lodged an appeal)
 
Interesting quandary for Barca though. If, being cynical, they believe they will be found guilty then by appealing they will have to go on a spending spree to see them through a future fourteen month period of no more incoming players. However, the potential problem with that policy will surely put them in breach of the UEFA Financial Fair Play rules. Depending on how seriously those rules will be implemented (cynically Barca will probably have already decided to use the courts to avoid any sanctions here too!), then the result could be they will be barred from competing in Europe in 2014 - 2015 season ......

Just a thought, but is going to be a spaces worth watching out for ......
 
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