Tottenham is a member of Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Barcelona under the clubs accused of tapping players in their pursuit of a transfer.
We will wait and see how Spurs' attempt to sign Morgan Gibbs-White from Nottingham Forest, but the precedent for things like this is a legal minefield. Things can become messy.
We have looked at a number of remarkable cases in which clubs are forced to defend themselves for claims that they have made illegal approaches for players.
Nottingham Forest has not made an official, public statement about the Gibbs-White situation-but club sources have informed media that they are considering legal action about the interest of Tottenham in their Star midfielder.
It has been a whirlwind -saga. The day after widespread reports that Spurs had landed the signature of the Rising Star England International by meeting its £ 60 million release clause, Forest has made it clear that they are not satisfied with how the approach was made – and are willing to fight their angle to prevent it from happening.
The transfer is now in the uncertain, where the bottleneck is whether a reported release clause confidentiality agreement in the Gibbs-White contract has been violated.
Expect it to walk and walk.
Liverpool signed Ziege from Middlesbrough after activating a £ 5.5 million release clause in his contract. Boro claimed that they had received offers from more than £ 8 million, but said the player was stored by the Reds.
In 2004, the case was only established a few days before it had to be established in the Supreme Court, where Boro chairman Steve Gibson and Liverpool director Rick Parry were both stubborn in the pursuit of what was seen as little more than a personal resentment.
Boro reportedly claimed a reimbursement of more than £ 2.5 million, a total found from different costs, including lost merchandise, estimated 10 points lost in the 2000-01 season, and even claimed that Liverpool owed them because they had to take Terry Venables to prevent relegation.
Mexes came to Roma from Boyhood Club Auxerre in 2004, only for a tap-up case to be successfully brought against the player and the club.
After calls and suspensions, Mexes eventually served a six-week ban at the end of his first season in Rome before he forced his former club himself to be a fine of € 7 million at Roma.
He was originally forbidden to play for six weeks, but it was canceled after a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Instead, the club was forbidden to sign someone other than free agents, who actually worked in favor of the middle behind, because he settled as a regular AS Roma when they finished second in the Serie A.
N'Zogbia spent time with the process in Newcastle, even though he had been contracted to Le Havre – although the player himself believed that it was a shorter deal than it actually was.
“At first, Le Havre offered me a one -year -old deal,” he said at the time. “Actually, the officials imprisoned me because I signed for three years.
“I was forced to leave Le Havre. Whether I stayed and was blocked, or I could go abroad because I could not sign for another club in France.”
The 19-year-old switched to Tyneside in an attempt to circumvent youth development laws that force a compensation payment for each player younger than 23 who moves between domestic clubs.
FIFA intervened and admitted N'Zogbia to be registered in Newcastle, who was instructed to pay £ 250,000 compensation.
Being noticed for dinner with the manager of a rival club is not the best way to do things, especially if you are planning a movement behind the scenes.
Cole was seen with Jose Mourinho in London, and a year later, after a notorious vast saga, moved through the city to join Chelsea.
As a result of the affair, Chelsea was fined £ 300,000 and reportedly came very close to a point deduction, Cole was fined £ 100,000 and his agent was suspended for 18 months, while Mourinho was beaten with a fine of £ 200,000.
Spurs reluctantly sold Keane to Liverpool after the striker became hugely popular during his six years in White Hart Lane, with chairman Daniel Levy Furious with the behavior of Rafa Benitez – although an official complaint was withdrawn.
“I was incredibly disappointed when I first heard, not only that Liverpool had worked behind the scenes to bring Robbie to Anfield, but that Robbie himself wanted to go,” he said, adding that he did not consider it a transfer deal. “
Keane later admitted that it was the wrong decision to move when he joined Tottenham again six months after his departure.
The move from Kakuta from Lens to Chelsea was the subject of a lot of media noise and led to a scandal in which two further English clubs were involved in the processing of players.
The 16-year-old winger joined the blues in 2007, with the problem that came to light two years later when he was about to break into the first team.
Lens initially turned out to be correct by FIFA, in which Chelsea ordered them to pay € 130,000, and the player himself ordered € 780,000 to pay.
CEO Peter Kenyon seemed to put the problem aside and to say: “People should not forget that this is something that happened two years ago.”
The Court of Arbitration for Sport destroyed the ruling, which also saw Chelsea 18 months to sign players, because Kakuta's contract with Lens turned out to be invalid.
After having promised so much, Kakuta had removed six loan spells from Chelsea and was eventually sold to Seville. Nowadays he plays in the Turkish second layer with Sakaryaspor. Of course he is.
“The player and his parents refused to retain the scheme because Manchester United offered very high sums of money to the parents with the aim of obtaining the transfer of their son”, a statement about Pogba that read on the website of Le Havre after the Kakuta story.
United threatened to sue the club and claimed that the transfer was completely legal before they were released by a FIFA judge.
Le Havre was not ready there.
“Contrary to what Manchester United State has not validated the transfer of Paul Pogba on their official website FIFA,” they said in response to the ruling.
“As they normally do in this kind of case, a provisional international certificate has issued. The decision of the international body is therefore a non-event.”
United was also accused of taking Fiorentina defender Michael Fornasier at the same time, although no formal complaint was submitted.
Manchester City was the third club in the scandal, because it was Rennes who called to get a punishment in Chelsea style after they claimed that Jeremy Helan had signed a pre-contract agreement at the age of 13.
It was in fact February 2009 that Helan let his professional contract expire before moving to England, and City replied that it was just an extension of a constant dispute between the player and the club, who prior to any interest.
“It's even more illegal than Kakuta,” said the Rennes chairman. “Manchester City must now realize the consequences of their attitude.”
Helan did not appear whatsoever for the city, but became a beloved figure on Sheffield on Wednesday before retired in 2016 to travel to Saudi Arabia and to devote himself to Islam.
In June 2017, reports suggested that Van Dijk wanted to move to Liverpool because Jurgen Klopp had sold him for his vision, whereby the Reds -Baas reportedly met the central defender in Blackpool of all places.
Southampton reacted angry and complained to the Premier League, and it was believed that they had the necessary documents to accuse Liverpool, but did nothing because the incident calmed down after Klopp's side had apologized.
They promised to end their interest in the player – only to make Dutch the most expensive defender in the world in January. Honestly to say that he was worth waiting for Liverpool.
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Griezmann was reportedly tailored to Atletico in the summer of 2017, but he chose to stay with his club under a transfer ban.
Barcelona's striving for the striker, however, became more and more public, to the point that a director of Atletico claimed that Barca had contacted the player's family.
The club was unhappy with the repeated contact of Barcelona, despite the fact that the player signed a contract extension until 2022, and Atletico stated that he was not for sale.
“Of course Griezmann will be able to leave at one point,” said Diego Simeone manager.
“If a player comes to me and says,” Coach, I have a chance to leave your life and want to leave, “and if he has left everything on the field for me like Griezmann, I will say,” No problem. “
The World Cup winner eventually went to Barcelona, where he spent a fairly unobtrusive few years before he returned to Athleti.
Manchester City was questioned by the Argentinian club Velez Sarsfield about their signing of the younger Benjamin Garrre in 2016.
Officials accused the city of ticking the conductor when he was only 15, and also focused on the FIFA rules, which states that no player can leave his home country before the age of 18 – unless both countries are in the EU.
However, FIFA chose the side of the city because they discovered that the striker had an Italian passport and was therefore free to move after he turned 16, a decision confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.