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Fifa have banned Chelsea from registering any new players in the next two transfer windows.
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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 Chelsea are 'jointly and severally liable'.
As such Chelsea have been banned from signing players over the next two transfer windows, which will mean they will not be able to bring a player into the club until 2011.
As well as the ban Chelsea have been fined £680,000 and will have to pay Lens £113,000 in compensation.
Kakuta, a regular in Chelsea's reserve side, has also been banned from playing for the next four months.
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."
Source: Sky Sports
There squads good enough for now. Might hurt them a lil at the beginning of next season though.
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I don't think it's as big a deal as I've heard people make it out to be. I've heard several people allude to how old the Chelsea squad is, but it's only 16 months it's not like they'll all retire before they can buy new signings.
It'll just ammount to some new bumper contracts for most of the players as Chelsea can't afford to lose many of them.
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I dunno, next summer a lot of their players are going to be quite old, and if they've any injuries to key positions/lose any players they'll be unable to strengthen clearly.
Quite amusing all the same. Good to see such a strong action from Fifa. Could affect other clubs if they do this too I'd imagine.
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I dunno, next summer a lot of their players are going to be quite old, and if they've any injuries to key positions/lose any players they'll be unable to strengthen clearly.
Quite amusing all the same. Good to see such a strong action from Fifa. Could affect other clubs if they do this too I'd imagine.
Not to mention they may lose the likes of Drogba, Mikel Obi, Essien & Kalou during the African's Cup of nation.
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Good, exactly what should have happened. If you continue to break the rules like that you need to be slapped by the FA, and thank God they've been done. Hell, they were in real hot water over their signing of Ashley Cole and should've been caught for that, but now this means they will be left behind next season perhaps, bad timing considering the ages of Lampard, Terry etc. and they needed to sign and train replacements sooner rather than later.
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