So the verdict of the tapping up probe is that all involved parties were guilty and were given the following punishment:

100K fine for Cole
300k fine for Chelsea
200k fine for Mourinho

And if Chesea do it again next season they will lose 3 points.

I think Chelsea have got off lightly with this. A 300k fine is nothing, especially if it gets them one of the top players in Europe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4596209.stm

The whole Ashely Cole saga is a joke. Cole is going to appeal big style and re-do the rules like the Bosman rule. Why can't football be like every other proffesion, is Cole was a banker, he could go to another bank and see what they offered him. All fines will be cleared when everone appeals and the rules are going to be re-written. The FA have brought this upon themselves and now they have lost their rule.

Originally posted by Lickszz

I think Chelsea have got off lightly with this. A 300k fine is nothing, especially if it gets them one of the top players in Europe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4596209.stm

So what do you do?

Fine them 20 million cos thats what Ashley Cole would cost them?

It just doesn't work like that.

No, I was thinking more along the lines of a more substantial point deduction with immediate effect.

How about 10 points.

Originally posted by Arnold
The whole Ashely Cole saga is a joke. Cole is going to appeal big style and re-do the rules like the Bosman rule. Why can't football be like every other proffesion, is Cole was a banker, he could go to another bank and see what they offered him. All fines will be cleared when everone appeals and the rules are going to be re-written. The FA have brought this upon themselves and now they have lost their rule.

Fair point.

Players' contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, so I don't know why the FA are making a big song and dance about it...unless the FA are going to start enforcing contracts, and ensuring that terms are served.

As for Cole himself, he's hardly underpaid at the moment.

Originally posted by Lickszz
No, I was thinking more along the lines of a more substantial point deduction with immediate effect.

How about 10 points.

although i feel the fines handed out to chelsea was lenient, (apparently abromovich earns £300,000 every 17 minutes) i think a 10 point deduction is hardly fair.

you have to look at it in the sense of.... is theis the first time a player has been "tapped" up, very much no. its only because of the outstanding evidence in this case, something has had to be done. and it has.

Originally posted by Arnold
The whole Ashely Cole saga is a joke. Cole is going to appeal big style and re-do the rules like the Bosman rule. Why can't football be like every other proffesion, is Cole was a banker, he could go to another bank and see what they offered him. All fines will be cleared when everone appeals and the rules are going to be re-written. The FA have brought this upon themselves and now they have lost their rule.

as for comparing ashley cole to a banker..... it is not really relevant, what other jobs do you really know where people earn the amount that footbalers earn? it does seem harsh that you can not speak to other employers till you are in the final 6 months of your contract, but you have to look it in the light that, if it was allowed, then there would beeven higher wages being banded about,

it would be a simple case of players saying..... "chelsea have offered me this much, match it or i go" there has to be some point in which we draw a line, and i think the rule stopping them talking is a good rule.

although i am not a fan of david dein.... i think his comments regarding the saga of all this are very good....

http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.asp?hlid=282035&CPID=8&CLID=3&lid=&title=Dein+concern+at+Cole+fallout&channel=Premiership

i think chelsea should have had a ban on buying cole to be honest

Originally posted by Robbie_Lovin
although i feel the fines handed out to chelsea was lenient, (apparently abromovich earns £300,000 every 17 minutes) i think a 10 point deduction is hardly fair.

you have to look at it in the sense of.... is theis the first time a player has been "tapped" up, very much no. its only because of the outstanding evidence in this case, something has had to be done. and it has.


Well for me it's not the issue of whether it is the first time or not. If these illegal approaches are to be stamped out within the game then someone needs to be made an example of. Why not start here and set the precedent for future breaches of the footballing rules.

the fine on chelsea should have been heavier, because 300000 pounds is like 3 pounds to the russian billionaire, they shoudl have been given point deduction for next season

i hate a club like that who thing they can do anything only because they got money. well i think they can but must be stopped or the fa should atleast keep an eye on them so they would not do such things again

Originally posted by wassup
the fine on chelsea should have been heavier, because 300000 pounds is like 3 pounds to the russian billionaire, they shoudl have been given point deduction for next season

Points reduction, of course, would be a major and effective deterrant against a lot of wrongdoing by managers and players, but do we want to end up with league championships being decided in the courts? because that is exactly what would happen if points reduction was a regularly used punishment.

The truth of the matter is that the richest clubs do best generally, that was true before Roman Abramovich; the quetions are
1 Do we seriously want to do something about it
2 What can you legally do about it in a free capitalist economy