What you need to know:
Chelsea has until September 19, 2025 to respond to these accusations to the FA.
Chelsea is not having a good time. The Football Association (FA) formally accused the 74 -positions club related to irregular payments made to agents or intermediaries for some signings.
The problem is that most of them were made during The years 2010/11 and 2015/16, a period in which Roman Abramovich was owned by the team. In 2022, after the beginning of the war against Ukraine he was forced to sell it for his relationship with Vladimir Putin.
Now the FA is not clear whether it is fair or not, to sanction the new owners of Chelsea, for Abramovich’s bad handling. Less after The new administration was the one who gave notice of these irregularities.
The accusations of the FA against Chelsea
Chelsea received accusations for violating several regulations in at least three FA regulations. FA soccer agents regulationFA regulations on Work with intermediariesand regulations, regulations of Third parties investment in FA players.
Although, the investigated period covers movements from 2009 to 2022, the most serious irregularities were recorded during two specific seasons; 2010/11 and 2015/16. In these years, the club led by Roman Abramovich made several millionaire payments, which were not legally reportedto agents who helped close several signings.
Among the signings that could be related are those of Samuel Eto’o and Willian, in addition to the renovations of Eden Hazard, Antonio Conte, among others. Several payments made to companies were detected in the Virgin Islands. Coincidentally many of them coincide with the amounts that the agents of several players had requested as ‘commission’. In a nutshell, which did not comply with the Financial Fair Play.
“The Football Association has accused Chelsea FC today for violating regulations J1 and C2 of the FA Soccer Agents Regulation, Regulations A2 and A3 of the FA Regulations on intermediaries, and regulations A1 and B3 of the Investment Regulations of third parties in FA players ”. It is read in the official statement.
Now Chelsea has Until September 19, 2025 to respond to these accusations to the FA. The ‘Blue’ directive has cooperated with the investigation, not only gave the first notice to the authorities, it has also provided all the information they have. In 2023, they accepted 10 million euros to UEFA for ‘Incomplete Financial Reports’ left Abramovich.
It is there where the FA faces a dilemma. While irregularities exist, they were largely discovered, by the notice of the Blueco consortium that bought the team in 2022.
Until now, the sanction that the club could receive, from the deduction of points, fines or the prohibition of signings, is unknown.
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