City escape transfer ban, fined £315,000
http://www.hrlnews.com/2019/08/city-escape-transfer-ban-fined-315000.html
Manchester City have avoided a transfer
ban after FIFA found the Premier League club guilty of falling foul of
regulations regarding the international transfer and registration of
players under the age of 18.
Instead, football’s governing body has
fined the Abu Dhabi-owned side £315,000 which may come as a surprise to
some after Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Chelsea were
banned from signing new players as punishment for similar offences.
Chelsea are currently serving a transfer
ban for breaching article 19 of the Regulations on the Status and
Transfer of Players in the case of 29 minors, and the club was unable to
sign players this summer as part of a one-year punishment.
Barcelona, meanwhile, served a ban in
2014 while Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid were also hit with
punishments for the same offence.
