CLUTCHING AT STRAWS

Since the news has broken of our signing of Craig Bellamy, thats all we are seeing and hearing is bad publicity about our club and its financial difficulties.

Boyle the Motherwell chairman was first to chip in, although i do see his point in a way, then sky kept on and on about how we are financing the deal and about the Motherwell debt.

Now they are giving it the big one about how Bellamy may not be registered and cleared to play for us.

So whats the difference when we signed Olifinjana, Drinkwater, koumas why didnt it crop up then, the motherwell debt was there then and they must have known about it.

Its all starting to piss me off now, why cant they just accept that Bellamy is a Cardiff city player now regardless and he WILL be in the team on Saturday.

SSN have denied the Bellamy story until they had to accept it.

Ive said the same about the Quinn debt in another thread, if the FL reject the Bellamy transfer then they should have rejected the others.

Found this copy of THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE REGULATIONS

http://www.football-league.co.uk/static ... 888,00.pdf

GOT THE PART THAT EXPLAINS THE LOAN PROCEDURE BELOW

47.1 The temporary transfer of the registration of a Contract Player shall only be approved for a
defined period and is subject to the conditions of such temporary transfer being known to
the Player and approved by the Board prior to registration with the League.
Temporary loan transfers shall only be accepted on the prescribed form a copy of which
shall also be supplied to The Football Association. The provisions of Regulation 41 shall
not apply to such transfers.
47.2 Temporary loan transfers shall be allowed to or from Clubs in membership of The Football
League, The Premier League, The Scottish Football League, The Scottish Premier League,
The Irish Football League and The FAI National League providing the rules and
Regulations of the respective Leagues so allow.
47.3 There shall be two categories of temporary loan transfers allowed - Short Term Loans and
Long Term Loans. The following restrictions shall apply to both types of loan:
47.3.1 A maximum of 5 loan Players (either Short Term or Long Term) can be named in the
sixteen Players listed on a team sheet for any individual Match. This figure shall
include any additional loan of a goalkeeper approved by the Executive under the
provisions of Regulation 49.
47.3.2 No more than 4 loan Players (either Short Term or Long Term) may join one Club
from another Club in any Season.
48.1 Short Term Loans. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 47.3, Short Term Loan
transfers shall only be approved in accordance with following provisions:
48.1.1 A Club can have up to 8 Players on Short Term Loan during any Season,
but no more than 4 at any one time.
48.1.2 Short Term Loan transfers shall be for a period of not less than 28 days or for more
than 93 days in any one Season. The loan period is inclusive of the start date and
finishing date.
48.1.3 The Short term loan of a goalkeeper may be subject to a recall clause (including
within the original 28 days) but this may only be implemented in exceptional
circumstances with the consent of the Executive.
48.1.4 The Executive shall not permit a Short term loan transfer for a period in excess of
93 days in any one Season save in extenuating circumstances, at the discretion of
the Executive.
48.1.5 Short term loans which subsequently become permanent transfers, or
simultaneously upon termination become Long Term Loans, shall not count against
a Club’s quota of Short Term Loans for that season.
48.2 Long Term Loans. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 47.3, Long Term Loan
transfers shall only be approved in accordance with the following provisions:
48.2.1 A Player can only be transferred on a Long Term Loan if he was under the age of
23 on the 30th June prior to the Season in which the Long Term Loan transfer is
intended to take place.
48.2.2 A Club can have up to 4 Players on Long Term Loan at any one time during any
Season.
48.2.3 The registration of a Long Term Loan will only be permitted during the period 1st
July to 31st December in any Season.
48.2.4 The period of a Long Term Loan shall expire no earlier than the end of the Season in
which the Long Term Loan takes place and a Player signed on such a transfer must
complete the loan period and may not be recalled by his original Club at any time
during that loan period save:
a when the Player is recalled and transferred permanently to another Club; and
b in the case of a goalkeeper whose agreement may contain a recall clause which
may only be implemented in exceptional circumstances with the consent
of the Executive.
48.2.5 Long term loan transfers which subsequently become permanent transfers before
31st December in the same season shall not count against a Club’s quota of such
Long Term Loans for that season.
49 Where a Club has already taken its full quota of Short Term Loan transfers in accordance with
Regulations 48.1.1, the Executive shall be empowered to approve a further temporary transfer of
an additional goalkeeper in accordance with the following provisions:
49.1 If all the professional goalkeepers at a Club are certified by an independent medical practitioner
as being unfit to play, a Club may register (either before or after the deadline laid down in
Regulation 37.4) a further goalkeeper on loan.
49.2 The Executive shall allow a Club to sign such a goalkeeper for a period of 7 days
(notwithstanding the provisions of Regulation 48.1.2), inclusive of the start and finishing date.
49.3 Any such loan transfer shall be subject to the League having received (including by facsimile)
the appropriate medical certificate(s) and the Executive having confirmed that the circumstances
conform with the provisions of this Regulation. The period of the loan may be renewed for 7
days at a time but further medical certification must be provided on each occasion.
49.4 Such loan transfers in respect of the same goalkeeper may not exceed 93 days in any
one Season.
49.5 Loan transfers of goalkeepers under this Regulation are in addition to the quotas for Short Term
Loan transfers permitted under Regulation 48.1.1.

What I'd like to know if the PL/FL were as dilligent with Portsmouth as they seem to be with us? Clearly not because they owe the tax man £37m and have general debts of £140m.

StT.

liverpool are racking inTErest at 2 mill a day!!!

THINK ITS A FORMALITY WHEN VINCENT SHOWS tHEM WHAt HE IS WORTH