Chelsea have been banned from registering any new players for the next two transfer windows after they were found guilty by FIFA of inducing French teenager Gael Kakuta to breach the contract that he had with French club Lens. Chelsea have also been ordered to pay ‘training’ compensation to Lens of €130,000.
Kakuta joined Chelsea two years ago after which Lens made the official complaint to FIFA.
A statement from FIFA said:
“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 respectively.
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 780,000 euros, for which the club, Chelsea, is jointly and severally liable, and sporting sanctions were imposed on both the player and Chelsea in accordance with art. 17 par. 3 and 4 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 while the club Chelsea is 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.”
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1 wes // Sep 4, 2009 at 1:17 pm
This could be very interesting, I am keen to see where it goes from here.