Chelsea happy to support U18 transfer ban
Chelsea have declared they would support a ban of international transfers for U18 players.
The London club have been banned by FIFA from making any new signings for two transfer windows after being found guilty of inducing Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens in 2007, when the winger was 16.
Chelsea insist they have done no wrong and are appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.
FIFA and UEFA both want to outlaw international transfers of players aged under 18, and the bodies' presidents Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have respectively referred to the practice as being akin to "child slavery" and "child trafficking".
The club's director of communications and public affairs Simon Greenberg told BBC Radio Five Live: "Chelsea are fully supportive of that (the ban).
"We have to be careful that the rules and regulations are very clear because there's clearly a lot of people who believe there are grey areas at the moment.
"We have to make sure the rules and regulations are clear and legal in terms of European law. I think there's a lot of work to be done on that.
"I think we always supported the proposal. (Chief executive) Peter (Kenyon) is a member of the European Club Association.
"Chelsea, as an individual club and a responsible member of UEFA through their many competitions, and as a supporter of FIFA, we've always supported the ban of under-18 transfers - especially in the respect where this has been dubbed as 'child trafficking' or 'child slavery'."
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Comments (7)
joseph cat up yours.
Chelsea haterz burn. UP BLUES.
All those talking about the hypocrites that chelsea are..please tell how are they supposed to support the ban?
By stopping 'tapping' up such players when teams left right and centre are doing that? this is professional football for god's sake. Its not a childs play.
Why Lens have complained:
A financial agreement was never reached, and so the authorities have cried foul and used the ‘child-trafficking’ card. This is an accusation which is – at the very least – an insult to those children who are indeed trafficked across borders for truly heinous purposes as opposed to those who have moved abroad with their parents.
***** Lens have only complained not because of child trafficking but because no compensation was paid to them at the time of the signing.
This is stunningly hypocritical. After all, if the selling club were morally against such a move, then why were they asking for financial compensation? You either have principles or you don’t – there is no compromise in this matter.
What needs to be done:
Teams will only stop this once a proper legislation is in place, which there is not. the big losers are FIFA who even after so many years of seeing the contrasting rules regarding professional contracts in different countries turned a blind eye to the plight of these academies.
DONT TALK WITHOUT BEING WELL INFORMED. BEING A CHELSEA FAN I HAVE NO QUALMS ABOUT SAYING THAT YES WE ARE TO BLAME, BUT SO IS FIFA. ALL THEY ARE DOING IS HIDING FROM IT AND TAKING OUT PERSONAL GRUDGES.
A similar suit is going on against united and city as well...let's see how many of u retards still call it child trafficking. Chelsea academy has over 70% homegrown talent in the category of over 16. United havent produced a home grown talent in 8 years. Chelsea is not the only team indulging in this, but is the only team banned. That is the problem.
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