DBasia.news – Chelsea did not stay silent for the punishment FIFA gave them. The Blues insist they will immediately appeal the sentence.
Previously, FIFA sentenced Chelsea to register new players in the next two transfer exchanges. FIFA assesses the Blues violate the rules of transfer of underage players.
Chelsea is considered to violate Article 19 concerning the transfer of underage players. Also, they also violated article 18 for some player transfers.
Overall, 92 Chelsea players have problems. However, only 29 of them are still owned by the Blues.
Chelsea also intended to appeal the sentence. They considered FIFA should not need to count 63 other players.
“The decision to ban players from registering in two transfer markets and a fine of 600,000 Francs. Chelsea objected and would appeal,” the official statement said.
“The club wants to respect the important work that FIFA is doing to protect the weak and have been cooperative during the investigation.”
“Indeed, Chelsea were exposed to problems about articles 19.1 and 19.3 about 92 players. We want to show, there is no relationship with 63 of these players.”
“Unfortunately FIFA does not accept our request about 29 other players. Chelsea will immediately send an appeal to FIFA as soon as possible, “the statement continued.