Comments on: The Chelsea, Lens, Kakuta case must be a fix

By: Gf60

Gf60 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:36:01 +0000

There was supposed to be a FIFA comment released on Friday. Anybody seen it?

By: walter

walter — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:23:01 +0000

Money rules the world… Same old story since the invention of money…

By: lordgunner

lordgunner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:32:57 +0000

France is number one country in Europe at bending rules and braking them.
But anyway as i say ,Lens are a club in financial crisis and for sale,so they probably decide the best was to take away the complain and take the cash offer by Chelsea,so FIFA let Chelsea alone .For a punishment,you need a case.Case was close when Lens took the money

By: walter

walter — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:36:34 +0000

I’m no lawyer Lordgunner, but I was thinking that it the offence Chelsea did was against Fifa regulations and so were punished according Fifa regulations ? Well that is what I understand of it and this is also the way it is told in the press in my country.
And in our country we are used to some fixing and bending the rules at random or to suit the big teams in my country.

By: lordgunner

lordgunner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:51:32 +0000

but lens,kalkuta agent and the court agree the pre contract paper were non binding by law so the player could talk to Chelsea.Chelsea will pay a fee that lens that them and Chelsea have agree to be fair.the tapping up rule were done when the player when not under any contract.it s different that A.Cole who was under.
the problem is not Chelsea but that other nation play by different rule for contract offer to young player

By: walter

walter — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:40:10 +0000

Except that Chelsea has broken the rules, by tapping up the player, and gets away unpunished.

By: lordgunner

lordgunner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:19:31 +0000

it simple lens are in financial deep sh*t and need money to survive because in France the law are more strict about debit than in England, they could find themself relegate or worst bankrupt if they are not starting repay their loan and late payment .The ch av have some and show some cash.Lens are happy,Chelsea are happy so it s like a normal transfer and Lens take the complain away. case close

By: walter

walter — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:56:12 +0000

When I read that the ban had been lifted my first thought was: who has been bribed for this ?

I think Lens got some money (under the table ???) as they are now suddenly saying : “there was never a problem in the first place”.
This is to make one laugh because this means Lens are incompetent all over or…. money has been exchanged to change their point of view.

This has the smell of the sewer all over it and I can smell it all the way to here.

By: Tazz

Tazz — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:05:15 +0000

Fifa, and Uefa under Platini have committed more goof-ups than JT himself! Btw we must cash-in (pun intended) on the captaincy ‘Blues’ at the Bridge & try to upset them with a resounding victory. We did it last season remember? One more time. ROAR ARSENAL..

http://11gunners.com/opinion/6-must-do%E2%80%99s-as-arsenal-await-another-6-pointer/3063/

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:44:25 +0000

It’s a terrible thing and I’m a little ashamed to even think it but what did everyone expect? That corruption is rife in football is well known, at least to anyone who reads this site on a regular basis. Would Chelsea be willing to offer bribes or operate outside of the laws governing football? Well it’s hardly their first offence. We have the cases of Ashley Cole and Frank Arnesen, and I’m pretty sure that other readers will be able to bring up other occasions where Chelsea have not even attempted to operate within the spirit of the law let alone actually within it.

Part of the problem is demonstrated by the cases of Cole and Arnesen. Cole was clearly tapped up and Arsenal did all they could to have Chelsea punished, Tottenham dropped their trousers bent over and took a bribe (£9 million or so as it was reported) and thus Chelsea got away with it, the irony of Arensen being the guy who brokered the deal for Kakuta seems to have been missed by much of the media. The ruling bodies should have stepped in and docked Chelsea points and fined Tottenham for “attempting to pervert the course of justice” or what ever the term is under sporting law.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:35:31 +0000

AGS – that is it. The X Files. In fact all of football can be described in terms of the X Files. The evil slimy creepy monster scuttling around in the shadows (guess who), the big greasy slug that knocks others out of the way (ditto). Yes it fits.

By: AGS

AGS — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:32:41 +0000

Excellent article. I have been thinking this myself since I heard about the verdict yesterday – how could FIFA have got it so completely wrong, not to spot an invalid contract from the start? I doubt we’ll ever know. Maybe we need to get Moulder and Scully on the case.

By: Pete The First

Pete The First — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:55:50 +0000

Are we surprised?

Money talks with UEFA. Lens have accepted a bung to make this go away.

By: J Thomkins

J Thomkins — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:22:50 +0000

What else have we come to expect. The Champions League draw is fixed. There is no ability to right a poor refereeing decision. The entire game and its structure is made dfor manipulation. I think the sooner a break away european league is established all the better. Then the big whigs in fifa might take notice of how they’ve driven the game into the ground.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:12:54 +0000

What do you expect from a club owned by a billionaire who has been repeatedly accused of theft, blackmail, bribery, gang-violence loan-fraud, and anti-trust violation? (From Wikipedia. The list of his “alleged crimes and wrongdoing” is stunning.)

What do you expect from a club captained by John Terry?

Arsenal vs. Chelsea is a bit of a morality play. Let’s hope the good guys win.

Go Gunners!