[Rivals] Chelsea fined £10.75m and handed suspended transfer ban over secret payments breaching Premier League rules
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[Rivals] Chelsea fined £10.75m and handed suspended transfer ban over secret payments breaching Premier League rules
by killerdrama
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The Premier League has been investigating secret payments that were made by Chelsea between 2011 and 2018 when Roman Abramovich owned the London club; the transactions came to light during the due diligence process when the new American owners bought the club in 2022
The Premier League has been investigating secret payments Chelsea made to agents and other individuals between 2011 and 2018, when Roman Abramovich was owner.
Chelsea have also been given a nine-month academy transfer ban with immediate effect relating to the club’s registration of youth players between 2019 and 2022.
The transactions came to light during the due diligence process when the new American owners bought the club in 2022. They self-reported the irregularities to the Premier League, the FA and UEFA.
The Premier League says Chelsea’s “proactive self-reporting” and “exceptional co-operation” throughout the investigation acted as significant mitigating factors when mulling over potential sanctions.
Chelsea “accept the terms of the settlement in full” and welcomed the Premier League’s acknowledgment of their help in the investigation.
Chelsea were fined £8.64m (10 million Euros) by UEFA in July 2023 for incomplete financial reporting by the previous owners in 2018 and 2019.
At least six suspect payments to offshore companies connected to transfers were identified.
The seven-figure payments were not in accounts that the club submitted to the football authorities at the time.
The transfers investigated are believed to include the moves of Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto’o and Andreas Christiansen.
Clubs have to provide the FA and Premier League accurate financial information every year. The same applies for UEFA and clubs playing in their competitions.
UEFA’s five-year statute of limitations means they could only investigate breaches going back to 2017/18. The Premier League does not have a statute of limitations.
The problem was they didn’t do it enough. If they had 115 charges. They would get away with it.
That’s not even justice… That’s just the cost of doing business.
£10.75M is a pittance, and they’ve stood to gain increasingly more!
At this point, the Premier League as an institution is in disrepute. Between City and Chelsea alone, you have a significant portion of the PL’s years of activity now under scrutiny.
No wonder they’re dragging on a City decision. Imagine 1/3rd of your existence being compromised if you make a ruling on those cheats.
What does a one-year transfer ban suspended two years mean? That the one year ban will start two years from now?
115 still no punishment btw.
They’re still figuring out how to sweep it under the rug and how much the bribe should be.
So, no ban as long as they don’t do it again for 2 years and only 10m fine. This is ridiculous.
It’s a joke. Might as well do everything under the table. In 15 years, pay the amount of Amorim’s sacking.
Fucking hell, next we know they’re giving city a 2 million pound fine.
Makes the pussyfooting of Man Utd seem like a waste of time. We should just go into the market do what needs done then set aside 20m for fines down the road in 10 years time. But atleast we’ll finally be able to clear out the players needed and bring in new ones and actually crack on instead of 2 out, 2 in every summer that’s left us with the squad we have now.
Geovany Quenda is one move that feels dodgy. Like why do a move like that in secret when Sporting could have had a bidding war for him and the player would have had his pick? If both United and Chelsea are interested there’s bound to have been others.
Amateur mistake. If they had done 10.75 billion, they would have been able to get away with it.
That fine means nothing to a club the size of Chelsea, and a suspended transfer ban is embarrassing. May as well not have bothered punishing them.
They should have bought £417 million in arms from the UK and then used them to help with the genocide in Sudan. That’s how you get away with it.
Absolutely toothless…
breaking the rules is rewarded in this world, and the cheaters always win, so no surprise here.
Tbf the Chelsea did pull themselves on this and was done under the old owner.