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BREAKING NEWS: Chelsea banned from signing any players until 2011
Elano:
CHELSEA have been stunned after they were banned from signing any players until 2011.
FIFA found the Blues guilty of inducing teenager Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens in 2007.
Midfielder Kakuta has also been ordered to pay £682,000 to the French club and banned from playing for FOUR months.
The 18-year-old joined Chelsea two years ago after which Lens lodged a complaint with FIFA.
Now FIFA's dispute resolution chamber (DRC) has ruled that Kakuta breached his contract with Lens and that the Blues encouraged him to do so.
In a statement, FIFA said: "The DRC found that the player had indeed breached a contract signed with the French club.
"Equally, the DRC deemed it to be established that the English club induced the player to such breach.
"As a result the player was condemned to pay compensation in the amount of £680,000, for which the club, Chelsea, is jointly and severally liable.
"Sporting sanctions were also imposed on both the player and Chelsea in accordance with art. 17 par. three and four of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players.
"A restriction of four months on his eligibility to play in official matches is imposed on the player Gael Kakuta.
"Chelsea are banned from registering any new players, either nationally or internationally, for the two next entire and consecutive registration periods following the notification of the present decision.
"Furthermore, Chelsea, has to pay RC Lens training compensation in the amount of £113,000."
The Blues have the right to appeal against the decision and take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.
Given the severity of the punishment, it is almost certain the club will take that course of action.
Kakuta, a skillful left-winger, is viewed as Chelsea's most promising young player.
He ended his first season as top scorer in the youth side and was voted the academy's player of the year.
His second season was brought to an abrupt end in February by a double fracture of his ankle.
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Chelsea have vowed to "mount the strongest appeal possible" against Fifa's decision to ban them from signing players in the next two transfer windows.
World football's ruling body punished the Premier League club after they were found guilty of inducing Gael Kakuta, a France youth international, to breach his contract with Lens in 2007. The decision means that Chelsea will not be able to add to their squad until January 2011.
A club statement read: "Chelsea will mount the strongest appeal possible following the decision of Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber over Gael Kakuta. The sanctions are without precedent to this level and totally disproportionate to the alleged offence and the financial penalty imposed."
Fifa has ordered the English club to pay Lens compensation of €130,000 (about £113,500) and fined the player €780,000 (about £682,000), a payment for which world football's ruling body said that Chelsea were "jointly and severally liable".
Fifa also banned Kakuta, 18, a skilful left-winger who had been named in Chelsea's Champions League squad, from taking part in official matches for four months.
Top scorer for the youth side and academy player of the year in his first season at Chelsea, Kakuta has just returned from a double fracture to his ankle that he suffered in February.
Gervais Martel, the Lens president, expressed his support for the punishment. "We expected this kind of decision," he said. "The player was under contract with us, and they came and stole him away from us.
"Chelsea didn't follow the rules. They contacted the player when he wasn't even 16 and while he had been contracted to our training group from the age of eight."
Martel added: "The financial sanction isn't over the top given the nature of the infringement, but it's really quite significant when it comes to not being able to recruit players. It's an important message given that protecting up-and-coming youth players who are contracted to clubs is an issue being followed closely by Michel Platini [the Uefa president]."
Chelsea are not the first club to suffer in this way. In 2005 Roma were banned from the transfer market for two windows over their signing of Philippe Mexes from Auxerre. The club appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), who ordered that Roma should be banned only from the January 2006 window.
Sion, of Switzerland, received a similar Fifa ban in April for two transfer windows after being accused of enticing Essam El Hadary from Al-Ahly. Sion appealed to CAS, which has frozen the sanction while it deliberates, allowing the club to trade until next summer. A verdict is likely later this year.
Fifa's regulations on the status and transfer of players state in Article 17, paragraph 4: "It shall be presumed, unless established to the contrary, that any club signing a professional who has terminated his contract without just cause has induced that professional to commit a breach. The club shall be banned from registering any new players, either nationally or internationally, for two registration periods."
Fifa said in a statement: "The French club had lodged a claim with Fifa seeking compensation for breach of contract from the player and requesting also sporting sanctions to be imposed on the player and the English club for breach of contract and inducement to breach of contract. The DRC found that the player had indeed breached a contract. Equally, the DRC deemed that the English club induced the player to such breach."
'EclipZe:
lol, serves them right, fuck teams like chelsea who just put high paid players together in one team.
Shango:
will not happen
Lunatic:
--- Quote from: 64 Impala on September 03, 2009, 03:29:20 PM ---will not happen
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yup, they will appeal and win
es-jay:
yeah, we already know. http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=150780.msg2319694#msg2319694
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