Adrien Silva - Terms Agreed

[walkerleeds]

Hahaha no way are they denying us the chance to play our multi million pound signing for the sake of 14 seconds?  This is the most laughable thing I have ever heard.

[trabuch]

1 minute ago, noodles said:

a deadline is a deadline.

 

doesnt matter if it is 1 second, 14 seconds or 14 hours.

What about if it is 0.00000000000001s - that would be stupid no?

[Finn Claw II]

Also close the window a week before the season starts and allow a longer grace period for deals agreed subject to papaerwork / medicals

[chicagofox]

Just now, walkerleeds said:

Hahaha no way are they denying us the chance to play our multi million pound signing for the sake of 14 seconds?  This is the most laughable thing I have ever heard.

Its actually very plausible.  

[Wymsey]

"Small margin for error", etc.

[onekeithweller]

1 minute ago, 4everfox said:

Why is Danny Drinkwater a Chelsea player when the club said he would not be sold unless Silva was brought in first? I have no reason to believe the club are at fault here else Drinkwater's transfer would have been rejected by FIFA too, because it was completed after the Silva deal right? This whole situation stinks of big club bias and corruption to me. 

Drinkwater to Chelsea wasn't an international transfer. FIFA not involved.

[noodles]

1 minute ago, trabuch said:

What about if it is 0.00000000000001s - that would be stupid no?

if its completed by ....pm, then its the rule, once it hits that moment and deals are not allowed.

 

clubs have months to sort the deals and get an extension allowed on d/d if they meet the criteria, 

 

sadly its just one of those things, at least he will be fresh come january.

[4everfox]

Just now, onekeithweller said:

Drinkwater to Chelsea wasn't an international transfer. FIFA not involved.

Ah sh!t. In that case this whole situation stinks of corruption for me. 

[Buzzell]

4 minutes ago, walkerleeds said:

Hahaha no way are they denying us the chance to play our multi million pound signing for the sake of 14 seconds?  This is the most laughable thing I have ever heard.

Rules are rules I'm afraid. 

[trabuch]

Just now, noodles said:

if its completed by ....pm, then its the rule, once it hits that moment and deals are not allowed.

 

clubs have months to sort the deals and get an extension allowed on d/d if they meet the criteria, 

 

sadly its just one of those things, at least he will be fresh come january.

Who is doing these measurements? CERN?

[onekeithweller]

Just now, trabuch said:

Who is doing these measurements? CERN?

Timex

[noodles]

Just now, trabuch said:

Who is doing these measurements? CERN?

 

clubs all knew the rules.

[Ted Maul]

It's times like these where I wish we still had Big Nige around to stick a headbutt on the culprit.

[foxes_rule1978]

9 minutes ago, noodles said:

a deadline is a deadline.

 

doesnt matter if it is 1 second, 14 seconds or 14 hours.

I get that if the first bit of paper wasn't done by 14 seconds, but the fact it is just the last bit of paper and only out by a mere 14 seconds is being a bit silly in my view. They are now refusing silva to play for 4 months because of it 

[Dan]

Only we could do this. There's no club like Leicester. Not one.

[Filberts lovechild]

FFS! Surely he'll want to be playing with it being a WC season. Not sure how we go about this one, is a loan elsewhere possible?

[SheppyFox]

FIFA are obviously prejudiced toward the Portuguese. Racism, no other explanation.

[st albans fox]

I bet we still have a 1990's type fax machine which processes a page every 60 secs !!

[noodles]

1 minute ago, Filberts lovechild said:

FFS! Surely he'll want to be playing with it being a WC season. Not sure how we go about this one, is a loan elsewhere possible?

russia?

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Filberts lovechild said:

FFS! Surely he'll want to be playing with it being a WC season. Not sure how we go about this one, is a loan elsewhere possible?

not sure about this argument. he will have plenty of time to get his form and he will be fresher for not playing a whole season

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

5 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

My wife and kids hate me and everything about my life is terrible.

 

If only there were someone I could project all my problems on to

@Col city fan

 

[UPinCarolina]

Haha, we suck...this is actually pathetic.

I'm not as upset as I am impressed with how badly we dicked ourselves.

[marcymarc666]

 

[walkerleeds]

Just now, buzzer_b said:

Rules are rules I'm afraid. 

 

Rules are rules, but this isn't like any other industry is it? This is a corrupt, multi billion pound industry and a marquee signing should be allowed to go through given we are literally talking about seconds here.

 

Heads do need to roll for leaving it so late,  but that shouldn't deny us and the player in my opinion. 

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

Why is Danny Drinkwater a Chelsea player when the club said he would not be sold unless Silva was brought in first? I have no reason to believe the club are at fault here else Drinkwater's transfer would have been rejected by FIFA too, because it was completed after the Silva deal right? This whole situation stinks of big club bias and corruption to me. 

Surely If DD was done after silva then his would get rejected to. Or is it the process after the deals done? 

 

Maybe they decided to pop some champagne