The scum to face transfer ban as well??

[Neil Young]

Platini: I wish fredo and Craig would just shut the **** up.

[Le Chef]

Barca poached Messi and induced his parents by promising growth injections - How fecked up is that.

Real madrid, can't be arsed with a youth team

[saj]

Barca poached Messi and induced his parents by promising growth injections - How fecked up is that.

Real madrid, can't be arsed with a youth team

Both those facts are bull****. Messi had a grwth deficiency and whatever team he was playing for in Argentina didn't want to pay for the treatment or couldn't afford it. So Barca offered to pay for his treatment if he went to play for them.

Real Madrid have produced more top quality players than any other Spanish team including Barcelona and Sevilla. Look at how many of their former youth players are either playing for them or playing for other teams at a high level: Mata, Negredo, Arbeloa, Casillas, De la Red etc etc etc.

[BigChief]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...erguson466.jpg

Dunno why but I find this picture highly amusing. What is Platini thinking?

Platini is thinking: "I shouldn't have quit acting"

(yes its a Depardieu joke)

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Platini is thinking: "I shouldn't have quit acting"

(yes its a Depardieu joke)

[whooosh.........]

[Darkon]

Platini is thinking: "I shouldn't have quit acting"

(yes its a Depardieu joke)

where is that tumbleweed smiley when you need it the most!

[Parm]

The big difference is (perhaps) that what chelsea and now the scum are accused of is poaching youngsters that where under contract, while the Buchtmann wasn't.

That's the crux of it, FIFA can't do anything against the bigger clubs poaching unless the players were under a current club contract

[Parm]

Both those facts are bull****. Messi had a grwth deficiency and whatever team he was playing for in Argentina didn't want to pay for the treatment or couldn't afford it. So Barca offered to pay for his treatment if he went to play for them.

Real Madrid have produced more top quality players than any other Spanish team including Barcelona and Sevilla. Look at how many of their former youth players are either playing for them or playing for other teams at a high level: Mata, Negredo, Arbeloa, Casillas, De la Red etc etc etc.

****, how small must messi have been then?

[Exiled_red]

The thing with these type of issues is that the rules are different all across the world and are even different from country to country in Europe, until the rules are consistent the "trafficing" of you footballers will happen. The irony is that there are rules in England to prevent clubs poaching each others younger kids to their academies due to the 90 minute rule or whatever it is called

[Bender]

Le Havre president Jean-Pierre Louvel has contacted Fifa about Manchester United's signing of Paul Pogba.

Chelsea were hit with an 18-month transfer embargo earlier this week following their illegal purchase of Gael Kakuka from Lens in 2007.

Le Havre were quick to praise Fifa for taking such a stance and threatened to report United for the way they approached teenage star Pogba.

World football's governing body announced on Friday they had yet to receive an official complaint from Le Havre but Louvel claims he has now submitted the case.

The French official hopes Fifa will come down just as hard on United as they did with the Blues.

"The player had a no-hire agreement, and so had to sign his first contract in France," Louvel told radio station France Info.

"But he didn't sign it because Manchester United contacted the parents and made astronomical and excessive financial propositions for a 15-year-old boy.

"We have submitted the case to Fifa. The letter to leave has not been agreed by the French Federation, so today Fifa has been referred.

"I hope we will get the same result (as the Gaël Kakuta case), which could justify to those clubs they can't do anything and they have rules to respect."

Fifa have yet to confirm receipt of the complaint, while United insisted on Friday they would challenge any case brought against them.

[fah-q]

Apparently Fiorentina have complained to Fifa about one of their ex players moving to the Mancs too.

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Apparently Fiorentina have complained to Fifa about one of their ex players moving to the Mancs too.

Macheda perhaps?

[Molby]

Macheda perhaps?

I hope they are ****ting themselves over this.......if they are guilty they need to suffer the same consequences as the rent boys.

I wish that lad had've stayed in Italy - if he hadn't have got that goal against villa last season - they were in trouble and stevie would have lifted no 19.

Ah well, it's all in the past now......................good player though, wish we had him.

[peekay]

I hope they are ****ting themselves over this.......if they are guilty they need to suffer the same consequences as the rent boys.

I wish that lad had've stayed in Italy - if he hadn't have got that goal against villa last season - they were in trouble and stevie would have lifted no 19.

Ah well, it's all in the past now......................good player though, wish we had him.

Nope - not Macheda. They poached Macheda from one the rome based clubs- either lazio or roma. Fiorentina are complaining about a 16 year old defender whom the Mancs signed this summer.

[dww]

Nope - not Macheda. They poached Macheda from one the rome based clubs- either lazio or roma. Fiorentina are complaining about a 16 year old defender whom the Mancs signed this summer.

I don't think that Italy has contracts for under 16s and unlike France and Spain there aren't pre-contract agreements either as far as I understand. So I'm going to guess that this is just desperate band wagon jumping. I fear we will see a lot of this sort of thing in the coming months.