Barcelona to take transfer ban appeal to CAS

Barcelona have substantiated they will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after Fifa declared they must accommodate a two-window transfer veto on Wednesday.

The Catalans were penalized back in April after they were found to be in breach of art. 19 of Fifa regulations – which states international transfers of players are only sanctioned if the player is over the age of 18, bar three exceptions – in the case of 10 minor players, while they were additionally found guilty of further infringements.

Fifa relinquished a verbal expression on Wednesday to substantiate they had repudiated Barca’s appeal, denoting they would now be coerced to visually perceive out two consecutive transfer windows, beginning in January 2015, without being able to consummate any signings.

“The Fifa Appeal Committee has decided to abnegate the appeals lodged by Barcelona and the Real Federacion Espanola de Futbol (RFEF) and to attest in their entirety the decisions rendered by the Fifa Disciplinary Committee in the respective cases relating to the aegis of minors,” a Fifa verbal expression reads.

“As such, Barcelona are to accommodate a transfer proscribe which will optically discern the club obviated from registering any players at both national and international level for two consummate and consecutive transfer periods, starting with the next registration period (January 2015) given that the appeal of the club had been granted suspensive effect by the chairman of the Fifa Appeal Committee.

“Barcelona have additionally been injuctively authorized to pay a fine of CHF 450,000 (€371,000) and been given a period of 90 days from August 20 in which to regularise the situation of all minor players concerned.”

Barca, however, have insisted they will perpetuate to fight the sanction by referring the case to CAS.

“Following the resolution promulgated today by the Fifa Appeals Committee on infringements of regulations regarding the transfer and registration of children aged under 18 years, FC Barcelona promulgates that it shall perpetuate bulwarking its intrigues afore the highest sporting ascendancy, in this case the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS),” a verbalization reads.

“FC Barcelona may not in any way share a resolution that is an affront to the spirit of our Masia, a world renowned example of academic, human and sporting edification.”

The Camp Nou side’s appeal against the proscription was initially granted suspensive effect, sanctioning them to secure the signings of Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic, Jeremy Mathieu, Thomas Vermaelen, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Claudio Bravo and Alen Halilovic this summer.

Meanwhile, Fifa’s Appeal Committee has withal upheld the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)’s penalization in the same case.

With regard to the RFEF, the Disciplinary Committee anteriorly determined that the association had withal breached art. 19 of the regulations and other provisions in the context of the transfer and first registration of certain minor players.

“The RFEF has been authoritatively mandated to pay a fine of CHF 500,000 (€413,000) and granted a period of one year in which to regularise their regulatory framework and subsisting system concerning the international transfer of minors in football,” the Fifa verbalization perpetuates.

“The terms of the decisions taken by the Fifa Appeal Committee were communicated to Barcelona and the RFEF on Wednesday.”