The farce of the Transfer Embargo

[Champagneblade]

A couple of days ago I was looking at the threads on a few sites and noted one which stated that Bolton had a good transfer window.

They brought in Alnwick from Peterboro, Ameobi from Newcastle, Henry from Wolves, Anderson from Palace and Thorpe from Rotherham.

Not a bad last day. Experienced keeper, couple of wingers, centre half and a striker.

Then this morning I read how they have been under transfer embargo since December.

What sort of embargo is this? 5 signed all from the league above, one of them a perm deal.

Aren't these embargos meant to penalize those who cannot follow the rules? It seems not so. Like probably 80% of the division the embargo means they cannot pay fees, but yet when they can still offer good wages and freely sign relatively expensive loans, then what penalty is that?

I would have thought no signings, even having to use the youth team, would have been more relevant for teams who simply refuse to follow the same rules as everyone else until they could.

It also makes a farce of the Alnwick signing. Asks to go on list for personal reasons. Next minute he's rocking up at another club in the same division, probably on an improved deal having left for nothing. This personal reasons, it couldn't relate to the fact Bolton can't sign a player for a fee could it?

It seems at our level this sort of penalty is no penalty at all.

Nothing to do with Bolton's league position, it's the fact that similar to the West Ham debacle, there seems a real fear of punishing teams for not following the rules. Yet in non-league you get regular points deductions and in the case of Ilkeston, their games not played and punishment for not being able to honour them.

Anyone else thing such clubs didn't ought to be able to get away with it?

 

[bladesadviser]

I thought I had read it had been lifted after their take over. I remember Phil Parkinson saying it had been sorted before he agreed to join them

Your points are still valid re embargos

 

[PeteBlade]

The pigs did very similar the year they went up.

Not a pot to piss in, millions in debt, can't pay the tax bill, threats of being wound up, rumours of a wide range of local businesses being paid but they manage to bring in a whole host of free transfer on decent wages and didn't end up paying the bank back anyway!

 

[Grappler]

The pigs did very similar the year they went up.

Not a pot to piss in, millions in debt, can't pay the tax bill, threats of being wound up, rumours of a wide range of local businesses being paid but they manage to bring in a whole host of free transfer on decent wages and didn't end up paying the bank back anyway!

And Milan Manderic bought them on the understanding that the bank and local businesses accepted pennies in the pound, good bit of business for t'owd Milan.......

 

[Clarkey87]

You do realise that if we tried something like that, the Sheffield United effect will come into full swing and we'd get hammered by the FA including points deductions and fines.

It's the same if we broke the financial fair play limits.
No one has really been hammered over that but you can guarantee if we broke it, they'd want to make an example.