Tottenham Hotspur Breaches of Jermain Defoe Transfer - Times Exclusive

[HildoSpur]

Levy would be banned or be forced to resign presumably

Hard to know really, did that happen in other cases? Did Chelsea have their CEO/chairman banned when they were charged?

 

[wrd]

If we broke the rules then we should suffer the consequences. I think when you break the rules, what should be looked at is, what was the advantage you were trying to obtain and it appears in this instance it was about trying to save money, so I hope that the punishment is toward that end up but it may be far worse.

I know it doesn't feel fair in relation to what other teams do and don't do but that's not our concern, if we've knowingly broken the rules then a punishment is the consequence.

 

[0v3rl0r9]

Tottenham, Defoe, Mitchell Thomas and Stuart Peters declined to comment.

Harry Redknapp on the other hand is regaling this at every posh dinner and dance up and down the country.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Hard to know really, did that happen in other cases? Did Chelsea have their CEO/chairman banned when they were charged?

My guess would certainly be a transfer ban and a fine. Not sure we'd be deducted points but maybe they will throw the book at us to. Of course this could get pretty bad for Levy also if he knew what he was doing ....

Leeds United’s owner Massimo Cellino banned for 18 months by FA

Leeds United’s owner, Massimo Cellino, has been banned for 18 months – effective from 1 February 2017 – for breaking the Football Association’s agent regulations

www.theguardian.com

 

[dirtyh]

regardless of the outcome it's hilarious that these 'under the microscope' breaches are coming out when there's so much evidence of massive blatant cheating from the chavs and city yet we all know they'll escape scot free. football is totally bs in this country now.

 

[Gspurs11]

Despite this being an exclusive, there's no new evidence to review this from the FA's perspective. They would consider "new" evidence, but I don't think The Times piece says anything that hasn't already been reviewed

 

[HildoSpur]

Well that is interesting. Would certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons if Levy got banned.

 

[thebenjamin]

is it the FA or the PL?

 

[HildoSpur]

is it the FA or the PL?

This is the FA

 

[Viking78]

We need to go big in January then if there's a ban looming

 

[For the love of Spurs]

regardless of the outcome it's hilarious that these 'under the microscope' breaches are coming out when there's so much evidence of massive blatant cheating from the chavs and city yet we all know they'll escape scot free. football is totally bs in this country now.

I don’t think they will escape. The problem is City and Chelsea are 115 charges and Chavs might apparently be more than 115 charges involving off shore accounts, made up sponsorship and potential tax evasion. They are massive breaches and could end up with criminal not just FFP charges with directors going to jail. They take a huge amount of time and you can’t really do them drip feed, they have to be done as one to get the correct punishment.

The cases such as Everton is far more basic and our case looks even simpler then Everton’s and isn’t even FFP related as FFP didn’t exist then. This is the type of event you get a transfer ban for or maybe fine but if we did it then a transfer ban or fine is what we will get.

no-one is pretending a deal not done exactly by the books is the same as massive fraud over a decade like City or Chelsea. It’s like comparing stealing an apple with terrorism and murder but that aside there are still proportional punishments for stealing an apple just as terrorism also has its punishment.

 

[For the love of Spurs]

We need to go big in January then if there's a ban looming

exactly. 3-4 players in Jan if a ban is coming for the summer.

 

[easley91]

Just so I understand what's happening here..

This was already looked at way back when and dismissed, but could be reviewed IF new evidence is brought to light? Is the article that has come out today suggesting new evidence or that it could be reviewed again depending on anything new?

 

[glacierSpurs]

If I am reading the summary posted by @bubble07 correctly - that legal dispute between Defoe and his agent took place in 2010...

SO, why is it coming to light now?

And so much detailed info so quickly, you have to laugh lol. As if they couldn't wait to punish us.

 

[spursfan77]

Unfortunately from what it seems they weren't even digging into us, this situation just sort of fell into their lap. Im sure with that being said they wont pull their punches if we can't come up with a good enough defence. Reality is this is pretty much been served up on plate for them, the Chelsea and City situation is a lot more complex for them to deal with. Much like Everton, we would be an easy target to show the world that they are doing something about rule breaches.

Surely it affects Portsmouth too? They won’t be able to afford punishments like we can. If it’s proven of course.

 

[rossdapep]

An unprecedented punishment the Premier League has seen that's for sure

That should certainly be the case.

Just in case I am being misunderstood. I have always understood and said that Everton's case was straighforward which meant it was quicker to deal with.

Not only that but Everton cooperated.

Ours will probably be the same.

City basically ignored the PL when asked to provide documents and there are so many charges that they probably have to go down a deep road with each one.

That is obviously gonna take time and you want them to dig all the dirt they can so that they can go hard and not allow City to get off on a technicality like they did with UEFA

 

[For the love of Spurs]

That should certainly be the case.

Just in case I am being misunderstood. I have always understood and said that Everton's case was straighforward which meant it was quicker to deal with.

Not only that but Everton cooperated.

Ours will probably be the same.

City basically ignored the PL when asked to provide documents and there are so many charges that they probably have to go down a deep road with each one.

That is obviously gonna take time and you want them to dig all the dirt they can so that they can go hard and not allow City to get off on a technicality like they did with UEFA

I think with the Everton the FA said they didn’t co-operate but Everton said they did so that isn’t clear.

as for City that just seems unbelievable in scale, Chelsea’s also seems to be of a similar size so will probably drag on for years.

 

[Real_madyidd]

I am glad to see that there is apparently no statute of limitations in football and that historic cases that have already been dealt with can be looked at again.

I would like to draw the FAs attention to "that lot up the road" and how they came to be a top flight team. They have benefited from their corruption massively. I suggest a punishment of banishment for 80 years.

 

[mil1lion]

We will get a 3 points deduction and Liverpool fans will call it justice

 

[Cavehillspur]

Big fat can of worms getting cracked open here.