A club that, in the absence of bankruptcy, is itself responsible for the emergency invoked by having voluntarily and knowingly engaged in a financing system prohibited by FIFA, cannot be granted the urgent need for a court to rule on its case.
As a reminder, in 2015, the Belgian club of RFC Seraing was sanctioned by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee - a sanction later confirmed by the FIFA Appeals Body - for violations related to third-party ownership (TPO) and the influence of third parties, together with Doyen Sports Investments Ltd. (Articles 18bis and 18ter of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players). Therefore, on 17 September 2015, FIFA disciplinarily condemned the club to pay a fine of CHF 150,000 (approx. EUR...
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