PeterParker wrote:South Stand Balti wrote:The rules state the countries have control of the players for 48 hours after the tournament. The club have no say and Ivory are taking the players back home when this tournament finishes. It's fucking ridiculous. Yaya flew out on Jan 6th and will not be available for us now until Feb 21st.
And this applies only if they are playing their final?
Sick. Ashley brought Cisse with a personal plane the next day Senegal went home and we have to wait a year to use our players
No it applies from whatever point the country is eliminated. If the country choose not to enforce the 48 hours then the players can go back to their clubs. Yaya was never going to play against chelsea even if they had been knocked out at the group stages last Wednesday as Ivory intended taking all the players back home for a presentation and Yaya would not have been released until Friday night. It seems ridiculous they planned a presentation for not even getting through the group. Maybe other countries don't bother with the presentation thing.