FIFA has imposed transfer bans on European clubs for transfers of young players. In this case FIFA investigated the Argentine's club complaint in September 2016 and denied their complaint. Therefore this case is different in that the case is being brought not by FIFA against City but by the Argentine club against FIFA and City.
- Claims that City are putting through transfers in a rush to beat this are wrong. We could have done that before now and did not
- Claims of UEFA/FIFA/Gill bias in this case are irrelevant as the football authorities investigated the complaint against City and denied it
Like most I know little about transfer regulations, but the fact that FIFA have already investigated this and cleared City of wrong doing, but in a similar time period found other clubs guilty of similar offences, makes me feel confident about the outcome.
Can the CAS even impose a transfer ban? Most of the cases seem to be where a club, or individual appeals a sanction and the CAS either upholds it, or halves it etc. In this case there is no sanction to apply, so if the CAS find that MCFC broke FIFA's rules, can they then enforce a sanction? Perhaps they can just instruct FIFA to review the case again? Any views?