Adrien Silva

[Brown Nose]

How embarrassing.

However doesn't this amount to a restraint of trade that Silva could challenge legally? He's a Leicester player according to him, and both clubs involved.

How can FIFA stop him from playing football for 4 months for missing a ludicrously stepped deadline by a few minutes?

 

[LudlowFox]

How can they? Because (and I hate to say it) dems dere da rules.

 

[Jeff]

How can FIFA stop him from playing football for 4 months for missing a ludicrously stepped deadline by a few minutes?

Maybe it's not because of a missed deadline, it could be something else.

There's no excuse for either club leaving it so late. They had all summer to get it sorted out.

 

[M17TT C]

How does the transfer window get around European free movement of labour laws as it quite clearly restricts it??

 

[SJN-Fox]

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

How does the transfer window get around European free movement of labour laws as it quite clearly restricts it??

It sits very uneasily within the whole framework of EU legislation with regard to freedom of movement, restraint of trade and unfair contract issues, which the transfer system, FFP and the cartel-like behaviour of UEFA all impact on.

The EU's White Paper on Sport about ten years ago more or less accepted the status quo, with sport as a special case but not immune from specific provisions laid down in EU law.

As the Bosman case took well over four years to be resolved, I think the issue in regard to Silva is not resolvable in the time available.

 

[Lako42]

They aren't stopping him being a Leicester players are they?

He just can't play, so still being paid and still working.

 

[SwedeFox]

How does the transfer window get around European free movement of labour laws as it quite clearly restricts it??

Good shout actually. Get him down the training ground to repaint something so he doesn't sit around doing nothing

 

[LudlowFox]

They aren't stopping him being a Leicester players are they?

Indeed.

One might think of the FIFA approval being more of a licence than a strict restraint of trade. Silva has the right to work, and can work once 'licenced'.

 

[pork pie fox]

On the Beeb website now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41118927

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Supposedly we sent the paperwork over before the deadline, and it arrived their end 14 seconds after it. Plausible. We could always argue FIFAs feckin clocks are wrong....

 

[LudlowFox]

Supposedly we sent the paperwork over before the deadline

Not by fax I hope.

It's all rather silly isn't it? 14 seconds, 14 minutes or 14 sodding days... end result is the same. Whatever, wtf, hardly the end of the world. What's done is done - or not done, as the case may be. C'est la vie etc etc.

We're not the first club to forget to put paper in the fax machine (or whatever) and we certainly won't be the last. Sometimes you accept there's been a cock-up. It is what it is and you move on.

Now what's on daytime TV?

 

[fitz]

Perhaps we could argue that they just need a couple of new swanky gold watches that will give them the correct time. Send a few over as a gift and no doubt they'll realise all is fine. Perhaps package them in with some notes to make sure they arrive intact.

 

[Willlow]

If the paperwork arrived too late how have we still signed him? Surely that whole deal is void if it hasn't been accepted?

 

[Volpone]

How embarrassing.

However doesn't this amount to a restraint of trade that Silva could challenge legally? He's a Leicester player according to him, and both clubs involved.

How can FIFA stop him from playing football for 4 months for missing a ludicrously stepped deadline by a few minutes?

Not embarrassing for us. FIFA now look totally stupid.

Publicising 14 seconds makes them just look ridiculous.

Where the hell is common sense? If it involved Real Madrid or Barcelona you can bet there wouldn't have been an issue.

 

[Rock Fox]

Supposedly we sent the paperwork over before the deadline, and it arrived their end 14 seconds after it. Plausible. We could always argue FIFAs feckin clocks are wrong....

If you miss a train by 14 seconds you've missed it - of course you could always argue with the rail company that their feckin clocks are wrong. The railways will assure you there will be another one along shortly, like in January ...

 

[Miles Away]

My sympathy lies with the player. 14 seconds cost him 4 months of his playing career in his prime.

 

[Moose]

Fifa of course have always been known as a credible organisation who uphold the highest standards of professional conduct. Hopefully we learn the appropriate lesson from this debacle and next time make sure the brown paper bag we send them is properly stuffed full.

 

[SwedeFox]

My sympathy lies with the player. 14 seconds cost him 4 months of his playing career in his prime.

Most likely due to no fault of his own as well. He must be furious.

Making the case that the common sense deadline is 15 seconds later than the regular deadline will be tricky though

 

[Miles Away]

Most likely due to no fault of his own as well. He must be furious.

Making the case that the common sense deadline is 15 seconds later than the regular deadline will be tricky though

Oh. We've had it. Now that it's public they won't budge. He will train until the window reopens.

This could get worse too, if Silvia feels litigious. Could open up all sorts of labour issues.