This seems transparent to me
Whether they did something wrong I feel like either city or Chelsea or the pl is playing a distraction game to drag others in
Inconsequential thing ages ago vs 100+ actually recent issues from an oil backed nation state club. Hmmmm
The headline seems to suggest Spurs could face punishment, the article suggests it’s just the FA looking into why they didn’t punish spurs as none of the evidence appears to be new to the FA?
This is the equivalent of scrolling to 2008 on someones twitter timeline to try and find something fucked up they said
This seems like a non story. The article mentions Luton who had 15 charges against them for using third parties in transfers, so its not at all similar.
This is one incident of potentially going through an unlicensed agent. For reference Arsenal got charged for this over the calum Chambers transfer and got no points deduction, no transfer ban, just a 60k fine.
- The FA is investigating serious breaches of agent rules in the transfer of Jermain Defoe involving Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth, and unlicensed agents.
- The private hearing in 2008 revealed that Defoe, Tottenham’s chairman Daniel Levy, and Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp dealt with an unlicensed agent, Mitchell Thomas.
- Despite breaches, no disciplinary action was initially taken, in contrast to other cases where clubs faced point deductions for breaking agent regulations.
- Mitchell Thomas, an unlicensed agent, played a central role in the transfer, and Daniel Levy enlisted licensed agent Stuart Peters, though a formal representation contract was not evident.
- The FA regulations prohibited the use of unlicensed players’ agents and required a written representation contract between agents and players or clubs.
- Failure to comply with these regulations could result in severe sanctions, including transfer bans, points deduction, or relegation for clubs, and warnings, fines, or bans for agents and players.
- A panel, including Cherie Booth, found in 2010 that Thomas was involved in Defoe’s move, leading to compensation to Defoe’s former agent, Sky Andrew.
- Despite these findings, no disciplinary action was initially taken, but the FA is now reopening the case, aiming to obtain the panel’s verdict and any additional evidence.
- The FA plans to review the arbitration panel award and may interview former staff to understand events in 2010.
- David Lampitt, head of financial regulation at the time, left in 2010 and is now the chief executive of a tennis data organization.
All I can think about is how Sam Allardyce lost the England job because he exposed how transfers are really done behind the scenes and the FA didn’t like it. If we go back through every Premier League club’s transfers since 2008 and really break it down, you’re going to find over half of them broke the rules or found loopholes at least one time.
Lol now do chelsea and man city
Redknapp with an unrivaled ability to leave a trail of shit everywhere he goes.
Min 25 point deduction, hell maybe 50 is suitable
With or without points deduction, they ain’t winning shit
Incoming points deduction for us instead 🤣
Review all the city transfers.
Should this have been dealt with at the time? Yes. But I don’t see how they can do anything about it now, 15 years later, not least because every single party involved in this bar maybe Defoe isn’t in the game any more. Maybe a fine, but that’ll be it.
Dunno man, that would also be an argument not to charge Chelsea and I’m sure we’re gonna get fucked
No, it wouldn’t be. Because this is a singular instance of a relatively minor offence at this stage, for which the precedent is a fine at best. The comparisons people draw to Luton ignore that Luton had 15 charges, not 1. The allegations against Chelsea are much more serious and have a direct relationship to the transfer activity in the last couple of years.