08 Jun 2015 08:39:38
I'm confused about transfer embargos but before you all groan, I do understand Forest's.

What I don't understand is how Barcelona have made a signing over the weekend for Aleix Vidal and get around it by not playing him until January 2016.

Surely an embargo is an embargo?

1.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 09:32:59
When your club is as big as Barcelona you can do Almost what you like

2.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 10:59:10
They also managed to sign Suarez for 60 odd million in it too!! All a con for bigger clubs around Europe and prem league.

3.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 11:09:25
Wasn't Suarez signed whilst they appealed the embargo though?

I'm guessing if we tried it, the league wouldn't ratify the paperwork due to the open-endedness of our embargo.

4.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 11:57:21
Barca transfer ban wasnt through ffp though i'm sure it was for illegal aproaches and signings of under 18s they can somehow still sign people but the ban in place until jan 2016 so they not eligable to play until after that date.

{Ed001's Note - correct, it was for moving children around the world illegally.}

5.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 12:26:44
Surely although different ruling bodies involved, we broke ffp, ie footballing rules, the other, ie Barcelona broke the law, so tighter restrictions should have been put in place for them.

{Ed001's Note - you would expect so, but this is a world where the more money you have the more you can get away with.}

6.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 13:04:58
Surely an embargo is an embargo regardless of the reasons as to why it was imposed or whether it's for a set period or indefinite.

As they say, football is corrupt and money really does talk.

7.) 08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015 16:22:37
Ed Isn't moving children around the world illegal and I'm sure it's called trafficking. Or do they get around the labelling because they buy every member of there family including great aunt Doris a house???

{Ed001's Note - they give the parents jobs and homes to get round it. Brian Clough used to do a very similar thing while managing Forest, I can remember him signing one youth player by buying the parents a new kitchen. Times have changed and it costs a bit more than a trip to B&Q to sign the top talents now though!}