Barcelona 2 Year Transfer Ban

[Benicio del Toney]

 

These things never happen

 

 

 

 

Seen

[Greens]

Rangers went bankrupt, not the same.

[Seth Rollins]

Revista Panel>>>>>

 

 

They highlighted what Tata cannot see 

 

 

Its either Cesc or Xavi, You don't force Iniesta out wide and play Neymar right and leave Alexis/Pedro on the bench

Never understood how both of them play.

 

Pedro is such a baller.

[O Fenomeno]

Rumors it was Real that snitched to FIFA but it turns out to be Lee Woo's old club who snaked Barca.

 

 

Anyone seen him play? He looks too good for his age

 

 

They are looking to ban Lee Woo which is harsh.

 

 

A former Real Madrid vice president was on the board who decided Barca's punishment 

 

 

This isn't going to end well for Barca because their current president isn't about that life

[Creed Diskenth]

Bojans time

[Sinister]

Bojans time

 

[The Infamous]

Lee Woo sounds like them regens you get in 2019 on fm

[The Infamous]

Barcelona fail to heed warning signs as Fifa cracks down on youth transfers

Fans have been rocked by news that the club is facing a ban on signing new players but they should have seen it coming

Less than 12 hours after Neymar kept alive their hopes of a fourth Champions League title in just nine years, Barcelona fans have been rocked by the news that the club are facing a 14-month ban on signing new players. But while officials have insisted they have been "caught by surprise", the reality is they should have seen it coming.

It's now more than a year since Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, publicly backed the imposition of sanctions relating to six Barça players which prevented them from playing competitive games despite being registered and allowed to train with the club. The Koreans Lee Seung-woo, Paik Seung-ho and Jang Gyeol-hee, the French youngster Theo Chendri, the Nigerian Bobby Adekanye and the Cameroonian Patrice Sousia – all aged between 14 and 16 – are registered to different teams within the youth setup, with the last of these believed to have turned down lucrative moves to Chelsea and Liverpool last week to sign his first professional contract.

Fifa's rules stipulate that sanctions can be imposed only when one of the three following situations don't apply: the player's parents have moved country for their own, non-related reasons; the move takes place within the European Union if a player is aged between 16 and 18; or the player's home is less than 50 kilometres from the national border being crossed. In all six cases, Barça have been adjudged to have been guilty of ignoring these regulations, with another four youth players on their books also singled out by Fifa's disciplinary committee.

In their defence, Barça claim all trainees at their world-famous La Masia facility are "well looked after and guaranteed an overall education and football development up to the age of 18". Over the past decade, they have established a number of links with academies outside Europe, including former player Samuel Eto'o's Foundation that has seen more than 20 young players from Cameroon move to Spain, including rising star Jean Marie Dongou.

Had Fifa's current rules been in place, they would have been prevented from signing a 13-year-old Lionel Messi from Argentina in 1999 but, despite discussions with the Barcelona director Raúl Sanllehí over the past 12 months, Wednesday's ban shows that Blatter has clearly decided the murky world of youth transfers needs much tighter regulation.

"The popularity of football also brings some dangers," he said last year. "The financial success of our sport makes it, unfortunately, of interest to international mafias, who get rich due to illicit activities like match-fixing or tricking underprivileged kids with false promises of a professional career in Europe."

Club officials have insisted that they remain relaxed about the verdict, with the disciplinary committee granting them 90 days to explain how they signed the players concerned or allow them to leave. Yet with the imminent retirement of Carles Puyol and the goalkeeper Víctor Valdés set to leave when his contract expires, the need for reinforcements in the close season has never been greater.

How did this happen?:

Barça's youth recruitment policy was investigated by Fifa over a 12-month period. Having ruled that they had illegally recruited and imported non-Spanish minors, the disciplinary committee handed down a transfer ban for the next two windows and fined the club £306,000 (450,000 Swiss francs). They were found to be in breach of Article 19 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players in the case of 10 minor players. The rule stipulates that international transfers of players are only permitted if the player is over the age of 18, but that "international transfers of minor players are permitted under three limited circumstances, and such exceptions may only be granted after evaluation by the sub-committee of the players' status committee".

How will the ban affect Barcelona?:

With two deals already lined up for the summer, it is not immediately clear how they will be affected. Fifa has indicated that neither the German goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen or the Croatian teenage Alen Halilovic will be allowed to complete their moves but Barça are likely to fight that ruling when they take the case to the court of arbitration for sport (CAS). For his part, Stegen remains convinced he will still be leaving Borussia Mönchengladbach, although his agent admitted on Wednesday that the sanctions could be bad news for his client. "I'm not a lawyer but the question is if already done deals are affected or not," said Gerd vom Bruch. "I know Marc-Andre has still a contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach but I can't imagine he wants to stay longer."

Have there been any similar cases involving youth players?:

Barcelona are by no means the first club to violate Article 19. In 2005, the Paraguayan youth player Carlos Javier Acuña Caballero joined Cádiz from Club Olympia de Paraguay. Because he was still only 16, the Spanish Football Association required an International Transfer Certificate from their Paraguayan counterparts to complete the transfer but this was rejected. The Spanish FA appealed on the grounds that Cabellero's mother had recently been offered employment in a local restaurant, thus meaning her son's move met Fifa's requirements. However, the appeal was rejected by CAS after ruling that the mother's decision to move to Spain was directly linked to the contract Caballero signed with Cádiz and he became the first minor to be rejected under Article 19. Similarly, the Danish club Midtjylland tried and failed to register three Nigerian youngsters as amateurs, with their appeal also rejected by CAS. Chelsea were also handed a transfer ban in 2009 over the signing of Gaël Kakuta from Lens two years earlier. However, they were found guilty of inducing him to break his contract and the ban was overturned after the London club decided to pay off the French club instead.

What effect may this have on other European clubs?:

With so many of Europe's top clubs trawling the globe for the next youth superstar, this ruling could be the first of many as Fifa begins its crackdown. Over the past 15 years, Premier League clubs have become renowned for poaching some of the best emerging talent, although strict Home Office regulations that regulate the arrival of both junior and senior players from outside the European Union could mean they are less affected by these regulations than other clubs. However, this judgment against one of the biggest clubs in the world should act as a major warning regardless.

Case study: Lee Seung-woo:

Spotted at the age of 13 playing for local club side Cha Boom in a nine-a-side tournament in South Africa in 2010, Lee moved to La Masia the following year having rejected Real Madrid and two Bundesliga clubs. He has been christened "the Korean Messi" for his likeness to the Argentina forward and actually managed to out-score his hero at under-15 level, managing 38 goals and 18 assists in just 29 games compared to Messi's 37 goals in 30 appearances. So it was little wonder that news of his decision to sign a first professional deal at the end of March after rejecting the advances of Liverpool and Chelsea among others was welcomed by coaches at La Masia. With Barça having lost promising talents Josimar (Chelsea), Julio Pleguezuelo (Arsenal) and Sergi Canós (Liverpool) to English clubs in the past year, Lee's preference to stay at home had become a priority and a complicated deal with his agents Pere Guardiola (brother of the Bayern Munich manager, Pep) and Pau Clavero had been devised to cover the next five seasons of his development, including a potential release clause of €12m. All that careful planning could all go to waste should CAS reject Barça's appeal and Lee – whose extended family also intended to move to Spain in the summer – may find himself without a club.

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only got themselves to blame moving stupid over the last 12 months fuck knows how long they have been doing this

[WhiteTT]

Lee Woo sounds like them regens you get in 2019 on fm

 

[Lenny]

Lee Woo sounds like them regens you get in 2019 on fm

[Mame Biram Diouf]

 

 

Lee Woo sounds like them regens you get in 2019 on fm

:lmao:

 

 

lmao

[Creed Diskenth]

[Lieutenant]

Just heard this on talksport

Was always gonna happen

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Was always gonna happen

[Afroman]

Was always gonna happen

[M.Dot]

Barca saying they want to sign Ozil for £30m this summer?

[Heero Yuy]

lol @ us taking a 12m loss on a player we signed a year ago

[The Somalian]

Hope thats 30 million plus cesc (needs to return home, not feeling the way the fans have turnt on him)

[Captain Planet]

Lol at a player all a player needing to do is don the red and white before they become a viable transfer target for Barça

[Tee]

feeder team init

 

barca gave you man some p to to cop & hold him till there ready to take him

[TF S4DK]

Barcelona really still wanna buy Arsenal players?!

[Drift]

Barcelona really still wanna buy Arsenal players?!

trus me

[Guest thinkingthugswife]

Barca saying they want to sign Ozil for £30m this summer?

lOOOOOOOOOL! Cesc plus Sanchez and we can do business.

[LS]

Banned until 2016.

 

Expect to go all out in the next couple of weeks to sign some players for long term.