CCFC Club Statement: Restriction reduced to two windows

We've already served one

Cardiff City will In addition to the fee restriction for two windows, the Club will also make a payment toward the EFL’s legal costs and arbitrators’ fees.


CARDIFF CITY FC:

cardiffcityfc Following dealings between the legal
representatives of Cardiff City Football Club and the EFL,
we can confirm:

The three-window fee restriction, previously in place, has been reduced to a two-window fee restriction. Cardiff City
Football Club has already served a one-window fee restriction in January 2023. It will therefore be eligible to
pay fees once again for transfers during the January
2024 transfer window.

The Club's Summer 2023 player recruitment plan has
already been prepared for some time with this potential
ruling in mind

Cardiff City Football Club are extremely pleased with this
decision, which recognises the exceptional set of
circumstances the Club finds itself in.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Capital Law for
their support throughout this process.

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Not perfect but better than nothing I suppose

Not perfect but better than nothing I suppose

I agree better than nothing.

We should never have let ourselves get in that position in the first place.

More heavy costs have occurred.

The good news is, we can strengthen next January properly.
So if going for promotion or trying to stay up, We can look forward to January.

Result, though I personally was hoping to get off completely.

Surely it puts us in a much better position for buy now, pay later. Loan until January etc..

Excellent news. We can sign players now and structure the payment so we pay in January. Always a way. Another reason to remain optimistic for the season ahead.

Surely it puts us in a much better position for buy now, pay later. Loan until January etc..

Good point. Fingers crossed!

Not perfect but better than nothing I suppose

I agree better than nothing.

We should never have let ourselves get in that position in the first place.

More heavy costs have occurred.

The good news is, we can strengthen next January properly.
So if going for promotion or trying to stay up, We can look forward to January.

Annis, with any luck, this will help Erol's agent work some magic. Surely there will be more ways around bringing players in than we had yesterday?

Still £100sMillion in debt though, aren't we? What's the plan for that?

Not perfect but better than nothing I suppose

I agree better than nothing.

We should never have let ourselves get in that position in the first place.

More heavy costs have occurred.

The good news is, we can strengthen next January properly.
So if going for promotion or trying to stay up, We can look forward to January.

Annis, with any luck, this will help Erol's agent work some magic. Surely there will be more ways around bringing players in than we had yesterday?

I think we will get around things easier now

I’d imagine we will start to see some signings coming in the next few days, we’ll reading into what the statement says about transfer plans being set.

Really good news and exactly what’s been said was my first thought, loan with a deal in place for January! Let’s hope there’s a bit more of a budget now

Good news for a change, I know we shouldn't have been there in the first place but that's gone.
loans with option to buy now open to us.

Excellent news. We can sign players now and structure the payment so we pay in January. Always a way. Another reason to remain optimistic for the season ahead.

I hope your right but the EFL and Ridsdale will be watching us like hawks for any sign of sharp practice and slap another ban or worse on us as punishment if found guilty.

There seems to be a rather telling line in that statement......

"The Club's Summer 2023 player recruitment plan has
already been prepared for some time with this potential
ruling in mind".

Clubs won't like players going out on loan within their last year of a contract but a loan with a fee in January is much more palatable.

Really good news this, loan now obligation to buy in January. Now let's get some signings through the door

Is a signed commitment so buy a loaned played once the sanctions have been removed above board or likely to land the club in hot water again ?

Excellent news. We can sign players now and structure the payment so we pay in January. Always a way. Another reason to remain optimistic for the season ahead.

I hope your right but the EFL and Ridsdale will be watching us like hawks for any sign of sharp practice and slap another ban or worse on us as punishment if found guilty.

Ridsdale an expert on "sharp practice".

Like telling fans that their season ticket money will be used to buy players and then using it to pay the taxman.

The fact that he retains a position of power within the EFL tells you all you need to know about that organisation.

This is a brilliant result for us.

As others have said, gives us a better chance of getting round the restrictions to sign better players this summer with fees able to be paid in January.

This is the probably the best result we could have hoped for so the club will rightly be very pleased.

We will see transfer movement now.

Is a signed commitment so buy a loaned played once the sanctions have been removed above board or likely to land the club in hot water again ?

I would have said yes when the only option was to loan and near enough commit to buy in, what would basically be the following season.

However, now the whole deal can be done within the same season and while the player was still in contract.

I think this happens quite often anyway as players in the last year of their contract can seek out other clubs when in the last 6 months of a contract i.e. January

How many loan players are we allowed at any one time?

How many loan players are we allowed at any one time?

Paul, it’s 4

Cheers Annis.

That could be a little bit restrictive but as you say there are ways and means of working with this.

There seems to be a rather telling line in that statement......

"The Club's Summer 2023 player recruitment plan has
already been prepared for some time with this potential
ruling in mind".

Clubs won't like players going out on loan within their last year of a contract but a loan with a fee in January is much more palatable.

Agree loan with mandatory buy in January.

There seems to be a rather telling line in that statement......

"The Club's Summer 2023 player recruitment plan has
already been prepared for some time with this potential
ruling in mind".

Clubs won't like players going out on loan within their last year of a contract but a loan with a fee in January is much more palatable.

Agree loan with mandatory buy in January.

But, based on what Annis has said, we can only have four players on loan with a view to purchase in January.

We need a lot more than 4 players??

Don't want to piss on anyone's chips but I seem to recall that the embargo meant that not only could we not pay a fee for a player but we could also not "Commit to pay a fee" either which if correct would scupper any chance of us loaning a player now
and paying for them in January.

Glad to be proven wrong if anyone can clarify but it looks to me that we're no better off now than we were in January.

Don't want to piss on anyone's chips but I seem to recall that the embargo meant that not only could we not pay a fee for a player but we could also not "Commit to pay a fee" either which if correct would scupper any chance of us loaning a player now
and paying for them in January.

Glad to be proven wrong if anyone can clarify but it looks to me that we're no better off now than we were in January.

EFL can't stop us doing certain things.

That includes, for example, loaning a player from now until January with an obligation to buy for an agreed price when the window opens in January.

Don't want to piss on anyone's chips but I seem to recall that the embargo meant that not only could we not pay a fee for a player but we could also not "Commit to pay a fee" either which if correct would scupper any chance of us loaning a player now
and paying for them in January.

Glad to be proven wrong if anyone can clarify but it looks to me that we're no better off now than we were in January.

EFL can't stop us doing certain things.

That includes, for example, loaning a player from now until January with an obligation to buy for an agreed price when the window opens in January.

Are you sure? Surely that's a "commitment to buy" in January?

I suppose we'll find out soon enough if any players do indeed get signed on that basis.

Don't want to piss on anyone's chips but I seem to recall that the embargo meant that not only could we not pay a fee for a player but we could also not "Commit to pay a fee" either which if correct would scupper any chance of us loaning a player now
and paying for them in January.

Glad to be proven wrong if anyone can clarify but it looks to me that we're no better off now than we were in January.

EFL can't stop us doing certain things.

That includes, for example, loaning a player from now until January with an obligation to buy for an agreed price when the window opens in January.

Are you sure? Surely that's a "commitment to buy" in January?

I suppose we'll find out soon enough if any players do indeed get signed on that basis.

But the initial deal is made, it's a loan. The obligation to buy doesn't come until effect until January.

This is how other clubs have operated when under a one window transfer fee ban.

Don't want to piss on anyone's chips but I seem to recall that the embargo meant that not only could we not pay a fee for a player but we could also not "Commit to pay a fee" either which if correct would scupper any chance of us loaning a player now
and paying for them in January.

Glad to be proven wrong if anyone can clarify but it looks to me that we're no better off now than we were in January.

EFL can't stop us doing certain things.

That includes, for example, loaning a player from now until January with an obligation to buy for an agreed price when the window opens in January.

Are you sure? Surely that's a "commitment to buy" in January?

I suppose we'll find out soon enough if any players do indeed get signed on that basis.

Our ability to loan then buy has come about because the loan and January purchase are in the same season.

Without the reduction in the ban by one window, season long loans, especially when a player is in the last year of a contract, are very rare and not beneficial to the selling club

This is a long read but tells you everything.

https://footballhandbook.com/loan-with- ... t=cmp-true

Chance of getting kipre back now if he's fancied by the new gaffer