khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Anybody know if the transfer ban affects Barca's teams in other sports (i.e. Basketball and Handball) as well?
FIFA has no authority on other sports ,we were banned by FIFA not by the International Olympic Committee
Anybody know if the transfer ban affects Barca's teams in other sports (i.e. Basketball and Handball) as well?
Banned as well.Any news on whats happening to the kids affected in this?
From infos gathered by french medias that I read today about this matter, he doesn't mean that at all.This went unnoticed, because of the bdor today:
Blatter said today he wants to" talk to a club's representative to find a possible solution for Barça". That "a great club like FCB must be an example to the world, and that the important thing in football is to accept the decisions with respect, because in football you learn to win but also learn to lose."
I really don't know what he meant by that. The only solution would be lifting the ban, or exchanging it for a fine.
I have heard that we can buy players, just not register them and use them until our ban is lifted. If that is true we can buy players in the summer and just wait 6 months to use them, it´s not that bad to be honest.
We can agree to sign players but cannot actually sign anyone until next year.
Doubt many top players would want to just train for 6 months so it would more likely be a pre-agreement sort of thing
" Barca's appeal against the ban was dismissed in December and the club now faces the prospect of not being able to sign players for both 2015 transfer windows.
However, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu is hoping to meet with FIFA representatives - despite the club having cut off ties with football's governing body for the time being - as Barca seek a possible solution.
The Blaugrana are thought to be investigating two possible options.
The first would be to sign a player who would be able to train with the club and appear in friendly matches - not dissimilar to the signing of Luis Suarez while suspended last summer - but the players would remain unavailable to play in competitive fixtures until January.
Although, this would result in potential new signings losing significant match fitness.
Another, more realistic, possibility would include signing players as usual, but allowing them to remain with their clubs until the ban is lifted next year. "
My only fear is trying to do his best looking for loopholes is only going to piss off Blatter&Co and we end up getting heftier punishments.
If that's the case, then the board should send couple truckloads of money to Dortmund. Getting Reus and Gundogan in January and them being eligible for UCL would be golden.