The SCO Angers club, dead last in Ligue 1, has been sentenced to a recruitment ban for the next two transfer windows, due to a dispute over the transfer of Ilyes Chetti, the club announced in a press release on Thursday. . This sanction was pronounced by the Dispute Resolution Chamber of FIFA, following a dispute over the transfer of defender Ilyes Chetti from ES Tunis to SCO last summer.
Espérance de Tunis is contesting the termination of Chetti’s contract last summer which allowed the Algerian international to sign free for Angers. In a press release published Thursday, the French club announced “to appeal this decision before the CAS” because it does not consider itself “responsible for a termination of the contract prior to the hiring of the player Ilyes Chetti”.
The club was sentenced “jointly and severally to the payment” of a fine and a ban on registering new players for the next two transfer window periods”. The 28-year-old must also pay his former club the sum of 970,000 euros “as compensation for breach of contract without just cause, as well as a four-month suspension from any official match”.
In April, the Algerian international was suspended for a month by the club in another case: he was sentenced in April to four months in prison suspended by the criminal court of Angers for sexual assault. His situation at SCO Angers “will be re-examined by the end of the season”, according to the same source. In distress this season, the Angevins could be officially relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of the 33rd day of Ligue 1.
