http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/8236187.stm
Bloody FIFA the most corrupt football organisation ever have now decided to ban chelsea from signing any new players for 2 years.. bloody muppets.
Are chelsea the only big club in the past 5 years that has been accused of this ? NO
Are FIFA just clmaping down on Chelsea because of the players reactions to the corrupt referring last year.. YES
ajnspencer
Pro
Well, a year and a half...
The thing is there have been so many tappings from everyone, Man Utd and Arsenal have both been accused in the past, not to mention all manner of clubs in Italy and Spain.
I'd be surprised if any big club (and a few smaller ones) haven't at some time pissed another team off by getting one of their players.
It's stupid really, if they're going to ban a club for "inducing a breach of contract" what about Real Madrid's open courting of players?
Surely going to papers or the telly and saying "we really want Ronaldo/Alonso/Kaka etc" is just as bad as actually talking to the player, same crime, they're just being more open about it.
Also what about the many stories of international games where players from one team "chat" to another player about things that go on at their club.
It'd be a pretty simple situation to get Crouch or Lennon talking to one of the other England players about "at Spurs you could get X amount per week..."
Think what it would be like if it was players for a GOOD team...
With the Eduardo dive incident and Uefa along with this and FIFA I get the feeling the two biggest Footballing bodies might well have opened two very large cans of worms that they are vastly incapable of controlling.