Fifa have banned Chelsea from signing any new players in the next two transfer windows.
Having been banned from signing any new players for the next two transfer windows for breach of rules.
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The world's governing body have handed down the punishment after French clubs Lens made an official complaint over Chelsea's signing of their young player Gael Kakuta in 2007.
Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) has now found in Lens' favour and ruled that the Blues are 'jointly and severally liable'.
As such, the Stamford Bridge club have been banned from signing players over the next two transfer windows, which means they will not be able to bring in any new faces until 2011.
Kakuta, a regular in Chelsea's reserve side, has also been banned from playing for the next four months and fined £680,000.
Chelsea will have to pay Lens £113,000 in compensation. Statement
The full statement from Fifa reads: "On the occasion of its last meeting held on 27 August 2009, the Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) was called to pass a decision in a contractual dispute opposing the French club Lens to the French player Gael Kakuta and the English club Chelsea.
"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 a breach.
"As a result the player was condemned to pay compensation in the amount of €780,000, for which the club, Chelsea, are 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 has been imposed on 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, the club, Chelsea, have to pay Lens training compensation in the amount of €130,000."
Chelsea have yet to comment on the sanction from Fifa.
Lol they deserve it, did the same thing when they got Ashley Cole and got away with no punishment.
UEFA/FIFA definitely have something against the English league and their dominance recently as they are always looking for any little reasons to fck over premiership teams. Even though Chelsea do deserve it, the ban is harsh.
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[SD]Master_Wong wrote:im shocked your all complaining, they have money and influence so that makes them better? that makes them above the rules?
**** no, they should wait for the window just like every other team
They did...the problem is they did what they did with John Obi Mikel, Mikel sighed to join Man Utd, but then Chelsea forced/made him break that contract and sigh for them instead. Only reason Chelsea were not punished that time was because they paid half his transfer fee to Manchester United and the club he came from.
And yes Wong they do deserve it, just because they got money they think they can get away with anything...screw them. Servers them right.
Thread was a let down tbh. But that's because I read it as "Chelsea (a girl's name) banned from TRANSFORMERS (the movie) until jan 2011. I was confused and was wondering why this girl was so important.
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