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Old 09-06-2017, 01:49 PM   #426
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Originally Posted by d_phaneuf View Post
They have to do the right thing with Silva

That's not circumvention or anything which a deadline is there to enforce, this is someone's career and taking away 4 months of it over 14 seconds would be idiotic

Now idiotic is peak FIFA so who knows
they surely won't make an exception. I remember Red Bull Salzburg once missed the deadline by a minute or so when they tried to sign Robert Vittek from a Turkish club a few years ago, and they didn't make an exception either. I kind of get it too - you simply don't want to set a precedent either because then everybody wants an exception. It's just brutal for the parties involved, but I understand the "deadline is deadline" stance for sure.
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