DJ Dunk

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Seventeen transfers and five clubs have been named in Lord Stevens' findings from his inquiry into alleged illegal payments by Premier League clubs. Chelsea, Newcastle, Bolton, Portsmouth and Middlesbrough were all named as having breached transfer regulations.
The clubs face a further investigation from the Football Association but it is understood Newcastle and Bolton are viewed as the most serious miscreants.
Stevens has also expressed concern about 15 agents and two managers.
One is Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce, and a conflict of interest with his former agent son Craig and Bolton Wanderers.
The other is Graeme Souness, with with Stevens reporting "inconsistencies in evidence" provided by the former Newcastle manager and Kenneth Shepherd, son of Magpies chairman Freddy Shepherd.
Of the 17 transfers, four relate to Newcastle signings (Emre Belozoglu, Jean Alain Boumsong, Amady Faye, Albert Luque), four to Bolton (Ali Al-Habsi, Tal Ben Haim, Blessing Kaku, Julio Correia), three to Chelsea (Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Michael Essien), three to Portsmouth (Collins Mbesuma, Benjani Mwaruwari, Aliou Cisse) and two to Middlesbrough (Aiyegbeni Yakubu and Fabio Rochemback) while one transfer has not been disclosed.
Lord Stevens said in a statement: "Many lessons have been learned and strict adherence to and enforcement of the recommendations should ensure that the game and the transfer market can proceed in an untainted and transparent manner."
The Premier League will now send the findings to the FA and Fifa.

STi wanna Subaru

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Chelski involved... what a shock

Newcastle and Big Sam seem a match made in heaven

Will the Fa and Fifa do anything about it though?

555 Markus

From BBC SPORT | Football | Five clubs named in Stevens probe

"Zahavi did not open his bank accounts for inspection and is accused of failing to co-operate fully with the inquiry. The report also recommended that Fifa should investigate Zahavi's conduct."

This is why three of Chelsea's transfers remain "uncleared", and "there is no evidence of irregular payments to club officials or players."

alcazar

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Anyone else note the total lack of an English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh name in that list of players?

Could there be summat in that?

Alcazar

mickywrx

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Emre apart at times they were all dodgy signings. We were robbed blind buying that pile of sh1te

richiewong

Exactly 3 **** players that aren't at the club anymore

Its the agents that are being looked into and not the clubs, just to add Ashley now has full control of NUFC and is likely to take the club off the stockmarket on Monday