When the £80m transfer deal for Cristiano Ronaldo was confirmed United fans were writing out their shopping list of players they wanted Sir Alex Ferguson sign. We could do with another winger, another central midfielder, another striker, maybe a right-back, but our transfer kitty meant we could buy as many players as we wanted.
Then the summer whizzed by, the transfer deadline passed and a lot of United fans were left wanting. Antonio Valencia has had a good start (forgetting his performance against Arsenal), Michael Owen will get your goals and on a free you can hardly complain, and then there’s some French kid, Obertan, who Larry White was very surprised to see us sign. Regardless, when we’d been thinking about the Benzema’s and Ribery’s of the transfer market, you couldn’t help but feel at least a slight pang of disappointment.
Some have claimed it’s because of the debt we haven’t spent, whilst Sir Alex Ferguson says it’s down to a crazy transfer market, with fees massively inflated thanks to the likes of Real Madrid and City. Given that Bayern Munich were asking for €100 million to sign Ribery, then you have to think it’s probably better to bide our time than spend way over the odds on someone we could get cheaper next summer.
Still, whilst you might be disappointed with our dealings in the transfer market, we should thank our lucky stars we’re not stuck in Chelsea’s position!
FIFA have banned Chelsea from registering anyone in the next two transfer windows, meaning they can’t buy anyone until January 2011.
French club Lens made an official complaint over Chelsea’s signing of their young player Gael Kakuta in 2007, just two years after they were fined £300k and given a three point deduction suspended sentence for tapping up Ashley Cole.
Whilst this would be a pretty devastating blow for any club, it will likely effect Chelsea more than any club in top four, given the age of their best and most effective players.
By the time Chelsea can buy again: Frank Lampard will be approaching his 33rd birthday, Michael Ballack will be 33, Drogba will be two months short of his 33rd birthday, Deco will be 33, Anelka will be two months short of his 32rd birthday, John Terry, Ashley Cole and Malouda will be 30, Joe Cole will be 29, Michael Essien, Bosingwa and Petr Cech will be 28 and so on. In fact, of the current (21 man) squad, the only players who will be 27 and younger by the time they can buy again are Sturridge, Kalou, Mikel, Turnball, Ivanovic and Hutchinson!
Of course, Chelsea do have the likes of Michael Mancienne, Franco di Santo, Scott Sinclair and Slobodan Rajkovic to return from loan, but as yet, none of them have proved their worth in the first team. They could be great but equally, they could be shit. The loan period away tends to make or break players and we’ve seen plenty not good enough for United this way, and we have a successful and long established youth system.
Sir Alex Ferguson did question the age of the squad last summer when Chelsea pushed us to the final day of the season. They of course refuted this claim but went on to finish third the following season having never really challenged for the title. Given they haven’t strengthened their squad much at all this summer, it does make you wonder what they are going to be like by the time their transfer bid has been lifted.
The worry, of course, is that they have been dealt with more severely because they are an English club, which tends to be the general theme for our footballing bodies. It speaks volumes that UEFA have just confirmed they will not be reviewing any more cases of diving, following their dishing out of a two match ban to Arsenal’s Eduardo! Clearly they didn’t want to be put in a position where they had to hand out a ban to a Real Madrid or AC Milan player!
No big team in Europe has a totally clean nose where transfers are concerned, but for some reason Chelsea keep getting caught. Keep up on the good Peter Kenyon!
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Roma received a similar ban for the Mexes signing. Upon appeal, it was reduced to just the January window. I expect that the same thing will happen when Chelsea appeal.
jandsdad – That Scouser on Talkshite was “Tony” from Widnes, he calls on a regular basis and often slags United. He just made a player up “Machita”??. Stupid cunt.
We all now they are going to appeal and be able to sign players Jan of 2010. I hope this brings the inflated prices of players down, i think it will.
Yes I know it’s hilarious to you lot (and every other club’s supporters too). If it was the scousers in particular, I’d piss myself laughing for a month BUT I think what goes around comes around and I think this is the payback for the Mutu saga, our constant gripes with UEFA and the whole Barcelona crap over the last few years (Frisk etc). Blatter and Platini hate English football with a passion – Barca play with the “philosophy” Platini likes as he made clear the day before we played them – and no English club is safe.
Good points there @kiko_mac
@ king eric – yeah the fucker was near in tear’s as he blubbed about “machita” and nasty Man Utd.
What a cockhead .
I’m surprised he could afford the phone call more likely that or he was on the rob and phoning from his victim’s house
Chelsea’s problems with UEFA about ‘tapping’ up players puts another perspective on the John Obi Mickel affair. All along Chelsea pleaded innocence but with these latest revelations about their underhand transfer activities I wonder. I suppose we’d be hoping for too much for the FA to start it’s own investigations into their behaviour. But that would never happen. The FA is always lenient with London clubs.
BrisbaneRed – so now you want the FA to re-open cases that’ve already been dealt with? Glass houses love, glass houses.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6820875.ece
arsenal have been fucked, now chelsea
your lot and the bin dippers are next no doubt so don’t feel too smug just yet.
i can honestly say that i hate chelsea, but even i think this is very harsh, yeah it looks good for us but does it actually?
A few things to look at here
1) it wont really affect this season as chelsea dont need to buy any players in jan
2) Man city wont have competition from chelsea to sign players next season, and with us not spending to much on transfers and liverpool+arsenal abit skint i dont really see who else will compete with them.
3) We have been critisied by a few “smaller” clubs for taking there youngsters, and with UEFA and FIFA both having a strong dislike towards english clubs we could very well be looking at the same problem chelsea now have to face.
Has anyone seen this player…..he looks immense!
First Arsenal and now Chelsea. UEFA will come for the Scouse and us next. La Liga and Serie A teams routinely rape Latin American clubs for their kids. Where’s their punishment? I dislike Chelsea as much as the next guy but this smells anti-Premier League. Like Platini’s B.S. talk about debt that didn’t start when Laporta took over a Barca swimming in red ink and the Galacticos project was going south but when English teams started doing well. Like Wenger said how can they use video evidence to charge Eduardo but ignore the cheating and fouling of Barcelona in the Euro Super cup game? We better pray they dont find an excuse to F-K with us.
kiko_mac,
very good points there.
Sorry but we may receive a ban as well .Fifa didnt granted us permission to play Pogba and a investigation is launched to clarify the situation… Hope we did everything right as our Directors had said.
@ George
Totally agree mate this will probably have little effect on the rentboys this season, unless they get some bad injuries in January when a lot of their players are in Africa. It may have an effect on next season, after the world cup, if it isn’t reduced. Which I think it will be.
I do however feel worried that Bladder and that french knob are looking for a excuse to clobber English football and United. Funny how this took 2 years to investigate and come to a result, when our accustation against the Real shite was dismissed in about a week as “there being no evidence.”
What we all have to understand is that these two twats do hate English football(don’t get our hopes up for the world cup coming here).
Bladder hates the english because we stand in the way of his beloved Real shite winning the Champions League year after year after year.
And we all have your fucking scouse mates to thank for Platini hating the english. Platini I think was the captian of Juventus,or if he wasn’t he certainly played as he scored the winner at Heysel. Where according to your scouse mates there was a mass sucide by Juve fans, which they really tried to prevent!
I mean all this shit about, not signing young players, not being allowed to have debt if you wanted to play in the CL, holligan problem, diving. It’s all just a english problem.
Real madrid aren’t in debt, No Barca player dives or cheats(Messi has already had his own Hand of god goal), there is no holligan problem in italy. The only clubs that will get hit will be English clubs
TonyBee and Blue West, both of your comments made me Laugh Out Loud… Well done lads!!
Here it comes:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6820875.ece
Isn’t the African Cup of Nations beginning of 2010?
If Chelski’s ban isnt reduced, they are gnna be screwed.
No Dogbra, Kalou, Essien or Mikel
I was laughing hilariously, but now i’m fuming with anger towards FIFA and UEFA. Blatant double standard, now I hope Chelsea will complaint to the Sports Court whatever its name like Roma did, win the case AND GET FIFA BANNED/DISBANDED FOR DOUBLE STANDARD
“This is the best work Secret Agent Kenyon has done since he unscrewed John Terrys studs before he took the Champions League penalty.”
Haha that seriously made me laugh mate.
This is bad for our football tho. First Eduardo the cheat gets banned (deservedly), then UEFA says it won’t be reviewing any more dives. Now chav$ki get banned from signing anyone for a year and a half. The dippers are up sooner or later with FSW’s constant crying. I just hope we have all our shit in order so Mr Bitter and Platittie can’t fuck us.
@sanj
Bang on the money mate. It will deffo be appealed and it’ll only be the Jan transfer market guaranteed
If we’re guilty of doing something wrong we should receive punishment, if not then we have nothing to worry about. I’ve said for years the way clubs and players treat each other is just a disgrace, plain and simple. Every club does it and we’re no different. Just look at the way we signed Berbatov. We bid for him, Spurs rejected it, so we just went and flew him to Manchester, picked him up, took him to Carrington and put him through his medical and talked personal terms, all this despite not having Spurs permission to do so. If another club had done this with one of our players we’d been fucking screaming about it. Of course that deal is done and dusted, we shut them up by paying them the money they wanted and giving them Campbell.
But UEFA have to start somewhere and if Chelsea have effectively stolen another clubs player then they have to accept the punishment like men and deal with it. We’re the same, I’m hoping the Pogba case was all 100% ligit, but if it wasn’t then lets not cry like little bitches about it, we fucked up, we got caught, we get punished, that’s how life works. Lets just hope UEFA apply the same punishment to ALL clubs who are guilty of this, not just the clubs it feels like punishing.
They will appeal and most probably the ban will be reduced to 1 trf window. That means they can buy next summer. BUT IN AN APPEAL, BAN CAN ALSO BE INCREASED………….
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6820875.ece
sAYS UNITED COULD FACE SIMILAR BAN……..
Like many here I greeted the UEFA ban on Chelsea with glee. But reflecting on it now I think it may not that much of an impact this season. This is going on the premise that Chelsea will appeal and they could go all the way to the Sports Arbitration Court and get a reduced penalty of say maybe one transfer window. There is a legal precedence for this. So if you count the Jan transfer window in which none of the top 4 really does any business the key one of course is the summer transfer window. I get the feeling Chelsea will get it reduced to the Jan window.
On a wider point, I’m not one for conspiracies especially anti-Premier League. But I do wonder what’s going on. Is it a case of picking on Chelsea because right now their case is timely (wrong place wrong time) and UEFA just want to send out a warning that every predatory top club is on notice? Could be.
i dont love chelsea but it is very wrong. they ban english club but they never relegated ac milan or lazio(yeah they did relegate juve) in the matchfixing scandal.i guarentee if it was one of the english club they would have relegated them.
if tommorow man city overtakes fake madrid in transfer and if city buys messi or if we buy him for 100 millions(i know we wont but still) there will lot of fuss.
Am a little concerned about this cos they seem to be targeting English clubs. First it was Arsenal with the Eduardo dive which I was surprised that UEFA got involved since I have seen worse with the continental clubs and no one getting banned.Now its Chelsea with this tapping up scandal.
Worried they might target Man Utd next with the Pogba deal.
whilst in theory this is hilarious, the ban wont stand.
There was some Swiss club that suffered a similar fate from Fifa, however, as Chelsea will do, they took the case to the court of arbetration for Sport, and whilst the appeal is still open, the club are not imposed by sanctions. It’s very realistic that the appeals process will still be happening in a years time, and Chelsea will be able to spend till their hearts content.
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Why is there no article on here about how United are turned into the focus of UEFA/FIFA/Platini/Blatter as well ?
watch out is all i can say.
Chelsea shouldn´t have done deals like the Kakuta one, but United are not better in this case.
This is anti english policy by those muppets to weaken the EPL teams in Europe… so you better think twice before you laugh
dont you just love it chelsea fucked up that muppet peter kenyon i wouldnt let him run a kids footy team