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RJH Glover · Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 369

Ex-Chelsea chairman Ken Bates has reported Chelsea to the FA, the Premier League and FIFA on tap up allogations of three players. Bates claims that the London club signed Chelsea signed youngsters Michael Woods and Tom Taiwo after making illegal approaches and also failed in their attempt to sign Danny Rose. Click here for the full story.
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This is a bit suspicious IMO seeing that Bates worked at Chelsea, if these allogations are true. Did this happen right under his nose or was he told about by one of his Chelsea colleagues? Be interesting to see what happens but these are serious allogations!

Yorkshire Glover · Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 284

RJH Glover wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote") Did this happen right under his nose or was he told about by one of his Chelsea colleagues?

A member of the coaching staff left Leeds and joined Chelsea. Bates alleges the former employee signed an agreement not to poach the Leeds Youth set-up. Yet within weeks Chelsea signed two Youth players and tried to sign a third youngster.

There is also a dispute as to compensation due from Chelsea to Leeds for the two signings that did go through.