French Football Federation Suspend Club President For ‘Joke’ Lionel Messi Bid
By Chris Wright
The French Football Federation (FFF) have suspended the coach of FC Borne, a village side that play in the second division of the Haute-Loire league, for making an official bid for Lionel Messi ‘as a joke’ earlier this week.
Borne made an offer to Barcelona for Messi’s services but the transfer was immediately flagged and reported by the killjoys over at FFF’s player registration office, who refused to submit the paperwork to the Spanish FA.
For his troubles, Borne president Cedric Enjolras was then suspended for the next months six months:
Yves Begon, the happy-go-lucky head of the FFF registration office, was unimpressed by Enjolras’ hi-jinks:
“One cannot accept such behaviour. It is perhaps a joke but we are here to judge the facts.”
Said Enjolras himself:
“To submit bids among small clubs, you need to fill out forms on the internet. I decided to register a bid so I typed the name Lionel Messi, his date of birth and his parent club into the system.
“Then the league transmitted the request to the federation. They were shocked by it and refused to send it to their Spanish counterparts. I have been suspended for six months, of which three are suspended.
“It was just a joke, to amuse friends, now I’m going to have spend three months in the bar.”
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god the FFF need to get a sense of humour
funny by him, tight by fff
Im confused. Why has he been suspended? is it because he tried to sign a player that was “too good” for his team?
Am I the only one who thinks this is wrong? To a lesser extent isnt this a similar case to when Spurs bought Van der Vaart??
@Gaz
Perhaps a better example would be Tevez and Mascherano to West Ham, but I agree it’s ridiculous.
I agree, its a joke, at least now people will know of FC Borne
I think the bigger issue was not that they tried to buy Messi, but that they tried to buy Messi for something like $500. It sounds harsh, but you can’t have someone clogging up a federation’s offices with trash bids.
why not ???? its a free transfer market
Heard he was hammered when he did it! (from another article)
He should have bid elevendy-billion dollars
Borne Identity.
Imagine if the transfer actually happened.
It would be Dec 21 2012 full year ahead of schedule.
A bit like that time arsenal signed squillaci.
So Messi is this Unapproachable, godlike creature now? A guy gets suspended after a joke involving him. This is ludicrous.
jokes…
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