I firmly believe he would have been in with a shout had we actually signed him in time. Superb little footballer, just what we need right now. Can't help but think if Man United or Chelsea had signed a player 14 seconds late that we would be none the wiser and the deal would have gone through. Seems like a tremendous amount of jobsworthyness. Effectively Silva is being suspended from football for around about the same amount of time Suarez got for biting three separate people.
Its not technically a suspension is it. The player isn't being punished. He is not a Leicester player, thats the reason he cannot play.
Are you sure about that? He's not being allowed to play for 4 months through no fault of his own. I'd call that a fairly severe punishment.
He's not being allowed to play because he is not registered to a football club. I understand what you are saying, and it is ****ing daft for the PL to be all uppity over 14 seconds. if it were me i'd be like "**** it, let it pass". But they are being arseholes and sticking to the rules verbatim. If anything it's the fault of Leicester and the selling club not getting their **** together in time. I am sure the player is still getting his weekly wage by Leicester right? If so, the player is getting paid 10s of thousands a week for **** all, I wouldn't exactly call that a punishment.
LCFC can't really blame anybody but yourselves to be fair. The transfer window is open for around 8 million seconds June-August and you needed 14 more, that's really just ******ed.
The ruling is a great example of the term "Harsh but fair". Harsh in that it is cruel to make Leicester keep their £22m signing on the bench for months, unable to utilise him, when they could easily just say, "Oh, ok, he can play" But fair in that the rules stated that player registrations needed to be submitted by a certain time and date, the window in which to buy and register players was huge and made clear to all from day one, and Leicester missed it, pure and simple. Harsh....but fair.
Why would we pay him a wage if he's not our player? Why should we? Do you get paid to not do your job? At the end of the day, there are a million little things than can hold up 14 seconds.
You're around 8 million miles off to be fair. We couldn't afford to sign Silva unless Chelsea bought Drinkwater. In an ideal world we'd have kept Danny and it looked like it would be that way until about 10pm on the day. But then Ross Barkley decided he didn't want to be a Chelsea player and then panicked and got Drinkwater in just before the window closed leaving us little time to get Silva. 14 seconds can be put down to anything. Traffic, broadband speed, even things like reading, translating... there's so much that goes on.
You didn't have to sell Drinkwater to us. As a matter of fact I wish you hadn't No one held a gun to your heads.
The player handed in a transfer request on the day and you stumped up something daft like 32m. Well fookin give him back then
All i'm reading is First its FIFAs fault for sticking to their rules. Then its Chelseas fault for buying their player. Nothing to do with Leicester just not handing in their form on time.
Clearly a bit more to it than that. As I've said. There are a million things that could have held the transfer up. I fully understand why FIFA rejected the transfer initially but surely under review they realise that not allowing the player to play for 4 months because of 14 seconds of missed time (that could have been at the fault of anyone) is completely ****ing barmy? If Leicester were a big club we wouldn't have heard about it. It would have been swept under the carpet and agreed. It's taken me more than 14 seconds to type this post. That's how stupid the whole thing is.
Exactly. I sympathise with Leicester, and its a harsh ruling, but it is fair, they are only operating within their rules. If you had followed the rules, then you would have your player, simple as.
