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Allowed to keep using a player they hadn’t paid the fee for, how did they get away with that ! At least Cardiff haven’t had Sala playing while they tried to avoid paying for him.
No idea, that's the million dollar question, but there are plenty of reports to suggest that was the case. How does an organisation also be allowed to continue to trade when they haven't paid HMRC the £26m they owe them? It happened though.
I know it happened !
I would say using a player for whom you’ve not paid the agreed fee is worse than owing tax. If a club fails to pay any part of a transfer fee the player should immediately become ineligible. I do recall that Arsenal (?) didn’t demand payment because it woukd have finished Derby and they would never have got the money….
Pretty much yeah - why he wasn't made ineligible I don't know. It was basically just letting someone get away and benefit from not paying somebody which ultimately didn't cause any chaos, but I can imagine we'd have had a pretty strong case against Derby if they stayed up at the expense of us. The footballing industry for you.