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Wycombe Wanderers Fined £10000 for Agent Rule Breach


by Hants on Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

The FA have investigated a breach of player/agent rules by Wycombe Wanderers and have taken disciplinary action against the Club. In the statement by the FA they have said:-

Wycombe Wanderers have been fined £10,000 and warned as to their future conduct after they admitted breaching The FA’s regulations in relation to player agent activity.

With regards to the same matter, football agent Phil Smith has had his agent’s licence wycombe_scoreboardsuspended with immediate effect for two years, 18 months of which has been suspended for two years.

The suspended element of this sanction will be invoked in full upon a proven breach of The FA football agent regulations during that period.

Smith, who denied the breaches was also warned as to his future conduct following the Independent Regulatory Commission hearing.

Wycombe have issued the following statement in response:-

Wycombe Wanderers Football Club has been issued with a fine of £10,000 for a breach of C2 of The FA’s Football Agents Regulations, in relation to the original sale of Matt Phillips to Blackpool in the summer of 2010.

During Wycombe Wanderers Trust’s period of due diligence of the club during its acquisition in 2012, they were assured there would be no outstanding liabilities in respect of this, or any other, transaction carried out by the previous management. We now understand this not to be the case.

The Football Club has cooperated in full with the FA, acting in good faith and bringing the matter to the attention of the authorities once the irregularities were discovered in September 2013. At no point before, during or after the investigation has the club attempted to deceive or conceal information from the FA.

Whilst the charge is related to the time of the previous owner, and that the £10,000 fine is a direct result of the action of those previously associated with the club, Wycombe Wanderers and Wycombe Wanderers Trust accept the charge and will not be making an appeal.

www.exeweb.com/2014/05/21/wycombe-wanderers-fined-10000-for-agent-rule-breach/

The more I think about it the more I think it could just be a way of getting some sort of financial compensation deal to compensate for the losses gained by getting relegated. We might be rewarded with some sort of package, which would be more realistic than actually being reinstated.

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Got to agree!

If the offence has already been dealt with by the FA resulting in a fine how can the club talk about a points deduction? The fact the offence occurred in 2010 doesn't help either!

Thinking about this logically we do not have a hope in hell of getting a reprieve through a Chairboys points deduction for the 2013/14 season.

However, there is a possibility in a worst case scenario for Wycombe (if there are other players involved) that they could end up with a further fine and points deduction for the 2014/15 season.

It would be interesting (and costly for us) if the issue went to arbitration and was not cleared before the start of the 2014/15 season.

In my view I would have preferred for us to accept relegation gracefully and not to clutch at straws.

I hope this is not the promised review. If this happened I would drop trou and drop a Cleveland steamer out on my kitchen counter.

Has Roadman made it over here yet?

Would be very interested to see what he thinks.

Personally, like most, it just smacks of desperation to me. But who knows, this is the circus ring of BRFC!!

Jesus Christ what a bunch of **ng hypocrites,after all the moaning and groaning about Trash using legal loopholes to try and scupper sainsburys our great leaders decide to go down a very similar route.Another nice little diversion to take the heat off the bod though and look out northampton,big brother Higgs will be after you next.