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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/timdeking on 2024-07-29 20:31:31+00:00.
Original Title: [De Telegraaf] Feyenoord is tired of waiting and sues Boavista as they never paid any of the transfer fee for Robert Bozenik. It turns out Boavista should have 30 transfer bans for refusal of payments, but for some reason FIFA doesn’t enforce them.
DeepL translated Article summary:
The Portuguese club is on the verge of selling Bozenik to Italian Hellas Verona, adding to the transfer saga surrounding the 24-year-old international under the eyes of world soccer federation FIFA. The sum involved is not millions - Feyenoord has already reduced the ransom to a sloppy 1 million euros - but the case is exemplary of the many abuses in European club soccer, where countless clubs fail to keep payment agreements and FIFA fails to implement its self-determined sanctions.
Scandalous sanction lists Anyone who takes a moment to dive into the public FIFA Knowledge Management Portal at the world soccer association, as The Telegraph has done, discovers almost scandalous sanction lists of clubs. Boavista is among the leaders in Europe and has as many as 30 (!) transfer bans on its pants. It means the Portuguese club has flouted payment obligations an unimaginable number of times or failed to pay for players at all as in the case of Bozenik. A transfer ban imposed by FIFA generally means that a club then cannot attract players in the next or more transfer windows. In the past, Chelsea and Barcelona, among others, have faced transfer bans for breaking the rules with foreign youth players illegally entering training. The transfer ban was considered a serious sanction. The fact that 30 such sanctions have been imposed on Boavista indicates just how out of touch the Portuguese have been.
No right to exist In the Netherlands, a club would then no longer have any right to exist, and the KNVB would revoke the license or order it to put its affairs in order within a certain period of time. After all, the Dutch Football Association requires clubs to demonstrate that they have a healthy policy and are financially capable of completing a full league. In the case of Boavista, the club would probably have gone under long ago if the Portuguese Football Federation had intervened. That Boavista, which recently changed ownership again, is allowed to fumble on proves that neither FIFA nor the Portuguese federation is acting in any way. It fits the image of the world soccer federation, which talks about strict rules, sanctions and stricter soccer legislation but in practice leaves these clubs untouched.