Manchester City under investigation by FIFA after complaint from Rennes – Wednesday, September 9, 2009
With English Premier League club Chelsea recently receiving a transfer window ban from FIFA, several other clubs are being investigated. The issue is clubs inducing players to break their contracts and transfer, which FIFA views a serious violation and why they handed Chelsea such a stiff ban (two transfer windows). Recently, Manchester City has been revealed to be under investigation from FIFA after a complaint from French Ligue 1 side Rennes (Stade Rennais) has been issued. Here’s the full story, courtesy of SkySports.com
Manchester City under investigation by FIFA
Fifa has confirmed it is investigating a complaint by Rennes against Manchester City over the signing of Jeremy Helan.
Rennes’ technical director Pierre Dreossirevealed that the French club had lodged a complaint to Fifa after City’s signing of Helan earlier this year.
Sky Sports News understands Rennes lodged their complaint with Fifa as early as last Spring as Rennes believe the 17-year-old was poached from them by City.
Fifa said in a statement: “We can confirm that there is a case pending with Fifa’s Player Status Department involving Jeremy Helan, Stade Rennais FC
and Manchester City.“
If found guilty of inducing a youngster to break a contract, City could well find themselves in hot water with football’s governing body after Chelsea were recently banned from signing new players until January 2011 over their pursuit ofGael Kakuta.
However, City are expected to contest the complaint, and are likely to argue that there was already a civil court dispute in France between Helan and Rennes before they signed the teenager. – SkySports.com – http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5543909,00.html
