Five clubs named in Stevens probe

[veron28]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6755991.stm

Seventeen transfers and five Premier League clubs have been named in Lord Stevens' final report into alleged transfer irregularities.
Deals involving Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Bolton, Portsmouth and Newcastle have been highlighted in the report.

They may face a further FA probe but there is no evidence of irregular payments to club officials or players.

Bosses Sam Allardyce and Graeme Souness have been mentioned in the report along with 15 agents, including Pini Zahavi.

There was a perceived conflict of interest with Newcastle boss Allardyce and his former agent son Craig and Bolton Wanderers.

Stevens also reported "inconsistencies in evidence" provided by the former Newcastle manager Souness and Kenneth Shepherd, son of Magpies chairman Freddy Shepherd.

The 17 transfers in question:


Bolton
Ali Al-Habsi, Tal Ben Haim, Blessing Kaku, Julio Correia.
Chelsea
Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Michael Essien.
Middlesbrough
Fabio Rochemback, Yakubu.
Newcastle
Jean Alain Boumsong, Emre Belozoglu, Amady Faye, Albert Luque.
Portsmouth
Collins Mbesuma, Benjani Mwaruwari, Aliou Cisse.
One other transfer has not yet been disclosed.

Lord Stevens said in a statement: "Many lessons have been learned and strict adherence to and enforcement of the recommendations should ensure that the game and the transfer market can proceed in an untainted and transparent manner."

The Premier League will now send the findings to the FA and Fifa.

An FA spokesman said: "Following the final report of the Premier League's Quest Inquiry, the FA will give full consideration to its contents and the documentation that is due to be passed on by the Premier League and Quest.

"The FA has provided full co-operation and support to the Premier League and Quest and will now go through their information as part of our governance and regulation process. This will determine what action is required."

 

[jani]

yes, Calciopoli!

 

[Filipower]

maybe Chelsea is going to second division and they'll give the trophy to United.



oh wait.

 

[Seán D]

This is disgraceful, Chelsea should be stripped of the players and promptly relegated



btw, some of the transfers named are probably due to lack of infomation given, and Zahavi is the agent who sets up alot of Chelsea deals. The club were probably going by the book, but because Zahavi was unco-operative Chelsea get named.

 

[crswind17]

yes, Calciopoli!

That is different a bit

I wonder what will be the end of this

 

[MikeyM]

This will be interesting to see. Especially how our traditionally inept FA handle the probe. If it turns out that the clubs are guilty then they need to be punished equally severely, and I believe that should be in the form of points deductions and if severe enough, relegation - coupled with the exclusion of those individuals directly implicated (i.e agents and representatives)

I know I'm going to get alot of heat for this, but I wonder if the FA have a bad habit of being lenient on the bigger clubs and if found guilty I am skeptical that the larger clubs (in this case, Chelsea) will be treated equally (as happened in Serie A)

Also as I said before, our FA is woefully inept at self government and perhaps a truly independent body should be charged with the inquiry. Look at the totla mess they made with the Tevez affair.


Mike

 

[sl benfica]

Nothing happen in the Tevez affair, because ManU were guilty of the samething and the EPL and FA didn't want to ruin their title hopes.

 

[Seán D]

This will be interesting to see. Especially how our traditionally inept FA handle the probe. If it turns out that the clubs are guilty then they need to be punished equally severely, and I believe that should be in the form of points deductions and if severe enough, relegation - coupled with the exclusion of those individuals directly implicated (i.e agents and representatives)

I know I'm going to get alot of heat for this, but I wonder if the FA have a bad habit of being lenient on the bigger clubs and if found guilty I am skeptical that the larger clubs (in this case, Chelsea) will be treated equally (as happened in Serie A)

Also as I said before, our FA is woefully inept at self government and perhaps a truly independent body should be charged with the inquiry. Look at the totla mess they made with the Tevez affair.


Mike

Id bet my house that Chelsea have nothing to hide and won't get charged. It will be the agent, Mr. Zahavi not being co-operative with the inquiry.

 

[ShearerM4]

Newcastle
Jean Alain Boumsong, Emre Belozoglu, Amady Faye, Albert Luque.

Ahhh Graeme Souness, the man who just keeps on taking.

 

[Seán D]

Ahhh Graeme Souness, the man who just keeps on taking.

Souness was not co-operating with the inquiry either so could have something to do with it.

 

[Bobby]

This is disgraceful, Chelsea should be stripped of the players and promptly relegated
.

And placed under a blanket transfer ban

 

[dubcrazy]

seems like all the transfers that were mentioned was of cause of lact of co-operation so i wouldnt be surprised if nothin at all happenes but of someone is found guilty they should indeed be punished serverley

 

[Stotty]

Nothing happen in the Tevez affair, because ManU were guilty of the samething and the EPL and FA didn't want to ruin their title hopes.

Er no. Get your facts right. Everton, United AND the Premierleague came out and commented the transfer was kosher.

 

[Help?]

Nothing happen in the Tevez affair, because ManU were guilty of the samething and the EPL and FA didn't want to ruin their title hopes.

Just hide somewhere and don't express your retarded posts here again, if you got nothing smart, factual or just contributive to say, then don't say it at all.







As for the reports, nothing new came out of this, we all knew long time ago that agents like Pini Zahavi were getting paid off under the table to close the deals. Nothing will happen to the clubs named and Zahavi will still have his 10 mill he got from all those transfers, so props to Lord Stevens for sticking to his goal and putting a lot of effort into this, but he just wasted a year of his life and 3 million pounds into an investigation that will come to nothing.