Court lift Chelsea transfer ban

[yawa]

Court lifts Chelsea transfer ban over Kakuta signing

Kakuta, 18, joined Chelsea from French side Lens in 2007
Chelsea have had their transfer ban lifted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after reaching an agreement with Lens over the signing of Gael Kakuta.

A statement on the CAS website said that the two clubs and the player had accepted the player's contract with the French side was not valid.
Thus Kakuta could not have terminated it prematurely, so Chelsea could not be liable for inducing it to be breached.

The CAS said all parties agreed the proceedings would remain confidential.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/8499169.stm

Theres a surprise....shows if you're a big club you can do what you want.

 

[bill]

I wonder how many brown bags that cost!

 

[yawa]

Hah exactly....they could easily lob a few million at Lens and it would work out far better than getting banned from signing players for a few transfer windows.

Morally it seems wrong but im not surprised at all.

 

[antiloqus]

/surprised

 

[DJS]

Completely makes a mockery of the system, what was the point in even putting the ban on Chelsea in the first place if it's only going to be predictably overturned via appeal...