Billy Gilmour - Rangers fined

[BEARGER 1,829]

Borrowed this from elsewhere, first I’ve heard about this. True?

 

 

Chelsea's transfer conduct involving wonderkid Billy Gilmour was one of two examples of third party ownership that lead the Premier League club being handed a two window transfer ban by FIFA. 

The west London club were given the ban in February of this year, prohibiting the club from acquiring any players as a result of their transfer conduct involving youngsters. 

FIFA have released findings dating back to Chelsea's failed appeal against the ban, which have revealed that the English outfit entered a third party agreement with Rangers involving 18-year-old Billy Gilmour.  

It has emerged that Gilmour was one of two players who FIFA determined were controlled by Chelsea while still on the books at other clubs. 

The midfielder joined the Blues from Rangers officially in August 2017 but in May of the same year the clubs agreed that the Scottish giants could not sell or loan Gilmour to any other club without the consent of Chelsea.

The agreement also stated that at any point the player could be released to train with Chelsea and play in friendly games whenever they pleased. 

The Gilmour case was also accompanied by findings that Chelsea had made a similar arrangement with Ajax over Juan Carlos Familia Castillo, who is currently on loan with the Dutch club. 

Rangers were fined £7,800 for their part in the Gilmour agreement. 

The 18-year-old is beginning to make a name for himself at Stamford Bridge and played in Chelsea's 2-1 defeat to Manchester United in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night.

[Stevie - 4lads Blog 922]

Yes it’s true 

 

it protected us when any deal would go to tribunal & we would get a lot less (cross border which we’ve done before) Billy was signing his First deal so we had no negotiation stance, if we didn’t agree we were due to get a lot less 

We got an enhanced fee, add ons & future incentives that suited us 

all of which we wouldn’t have got in another deal if we had waited 

a worthwhile risk & transfer loop to get a good deal 

 

We were smart & got a minimal fine 

[Bluedell 5,354]

There was an interesting discussion on the Daily Update on H&H on Friday, discussing the issue.

 

Did Rangers know that they'd done the wrong thing and take the risk as Stevie has suggested, or did they just not know the rules?

 

Did they know in advance what the punishment would be? Chelsea have obviously been given a transfer ban. Did we know for sure what the punishment would be? Was there a risk involved? Were we lucky rather than smart? Should we be taking such risks given we got our fingers burned with taking a risk with EBTs?

 

Morally, should we be deliberately breaking the rules if we did know that we were? If the directors are willing to do this, where else are they willing to break the rules? 

 

Interesting questions, and I don't think it's as clear cut to say we were smart.

[JohnMc 2,485]

Agreed BD. Can you imagine the nightmare we'd face if UEFA decided to impose a transfer ban on us. That said this type of thing has always gone on, 'tapping up' and gentleman's agreements are as old as the professional game. Sam English told how Bill Struth made payments to him through a foreman at John Brown shipyard when he was still a Yoker player so he wouldn't sign for anyone else. This feels like a modern version of that.