QPR banned from signing non-EU players image: http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/929d72b766872c342d5234d113fbd30f?s=45&d=mm&r=g please log in to view this image Date: 16th June 2015 at 8:39 pm Written by: Ryan Ingham | Comments (0) Football News 24/7 Queens Park Rangers are now in a crisis after being banned from signing any non-EU players, according to the Guardian. image: http://cdn.footballleagueworld.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sandro-300x200.jpg please log in to view this image The failure to follow the correct procedure in the Sandro deal from Spurs, now means QPR are banned from signing non-EU players until the issue from resolved The club have received their ban after they failed to follow the correct procedures in the transfer of Brazilian midfielder Sandro from Tottenham Hotspur. The midfielder has now been suspended by the Home Office until the matter is resolved and risks losing his contract at QPR if the matter cannot be resolved. The Home Office are now set to start an inquiry in the coming weeks before deciding if the player will be allowed to continue playing at Loftus Road and if not, his contract will the become null and void. Although this is a bad situation for QPR, the club are currently looking to offload big money stars following relegation from the Premier League. Sandro is understood to be on around £50,000-a-week and still has two years on the contract, which could force the club to push through a transfer to a new club. Although controversial, this inquiry could allow QPR to lose Sandro without having to pay the player off or spend time trying to offer him to other clubs. The issue came to light in May, after the club realised they had not filed for his UK residency visa after his move from Spurs, meaning that his EU work permit was invalid. Although it is the player’s duty to fill in the paperwork, the club are the one who file and send off the paperwork, which QPR didn’t do. The Home Office have been in contact with the club since May 7 and told the Hoops not to feature the player until the matter was resolved, hence his exclusion from QPR’s final games. QPR will now have 20 days to submit all the information to the Home Office in response to the suspension and then a further 20 days to sort out the work permit. Although the blame does lie with the club, QPR have still done nothing wrong in the matter, apart from making an oversight. Read more at http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/qpr-banned-from-signing-non-eu-players/#OLzVxdd7RvqYpqqD.99
Isnt that Lugono Australian? With the transfer window officially closed are we allowed to complete that deal?
Just wondering how many (ultimately) good signings we have made in the last few years from outside the EU. Ale Faurlin, Ryan Nelsen,
In light of the allegation that the club failed to get Sandro a UK visa for the whole of his time with QPR, surely the garrulous Mr Fernandes should offer fans a clarification and/or an explanation in one of his many tweets. I won't condemn until we're sure of the facts, but if it is true, it's incompetence and unprofessionalism by the club in its purest form
No need to condemn at all...it was probably a mistake, we all make them, even people working for QPR. No one is infallible.
Are you serious? The club pays several millions (amount undisclosed) for a key foreign player in a highly publicised move and completely forgets during the whole season to get him a work visa... Of course it was a mistake, but some mistakes are forgivable and some are simply gross negligence. Frank Spencer would have made a better fist of it than QPR's administrative department
The man responsible for this and many other business management cock-ups was Beard. It's a relief that he was sacked some time back but I fear his legacy will be with us for some time to come not least regarding the demise of the new stadium. Only at QPR could the man who drove through the Olympic business plan provide such poor service to a subsequent employer. And in the light of this TF was very lucky not to be voted out of the Chairman's role by his fellow owners.
Mmm Betty! Sure people make mistakes but make too many and the word incompetence springs to mind. Any more mistakes and we will have a catalogue to rival Argos.
I think this will be pointed out to the Home Office. "Wasn't us, Sir. It was him, Sir. So we sacked him, Sir".
So, in an alternate universe where we stayed up courtesy of playing Isla and Vargas in their correct positions, we would not now be allowed to sign them properly because of poor corporate governance. Good job it doesn't matter really.
A Home Office investigation revealed QPR midfielder Sandro did not have a work permit and it has suspended Rangers' sponsor licence, which allows clubs to apply for visas for players from non-EU countries. Without the licence Rangers can still sign players from non-EU countries but they cannot play until the suspension is lifted. Sandro cannot play until he has a working visa.
I read his residency permit run out and they, he and club, forgot to renew. Lack of residency visa or permit, invalidated the work permit, which the club had obtained. I know it comes to the same end...amateurish....but let's actually get facts correct before we slate people, even ones who are not at the club and seemed to leave quickly about a month before the end of the season
Plus he has the world's crappiest agent, isn't this the kind of stuff they are meant to do for 20% of his income? Clusterfuck. Omnishambles.
