It is finally next February that the Court of Arbitration for Sport will judge the case of Pape Gueye, who could ban OM from recruiting during two transfer windows.
L’OM will finally know, after being banned from recruitment by the Fifa dispute resolution chamber, for having hired free Pope Gueye. In April 2020, when there is a problem with the end of his contract at Le Havre, the midfielder had signed up with Watford, but his agent then sent a termination letter for an irregularity in the signed pre-contract.
As Indicated The Team On Thursday, the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) set the hearing of the Pape Gueye case for February 15 and 16. OM had appealed to the CAS last January and the case was to be judged this fall, which thus allowed Pablo Longoria to recruit as he wished during the summer.
The Marseille club rightly took the opportunity to recruit Colombian striker Luis Suarez in Granada, for 10 million euros. Or Suarez obviously belonged 50% to Watford and some concluded that OM had found a deal with the English club to get out of the conflict around Pape Gueye. This does not prevent the CAS from studying the decision given by Fifa…
Gueye can go to Qatar
If the CAS confirms FIFA’s sanction in February 2023, OM would then be in a catastrophic situation, with the impossibility of recruiting during the next summer transfer window, then in January 2024. It would be terrible for Frank McCourt’s club, still launched in its player trading policy, with an American owner who may have strong cash inflows.
For his part, Gueye, initially suspended for 4 months, has the possibility of playing the World Cup with Senegal in Qatar, from November 20. The Teranga Lions against the Netherlands, Qatar and Ecuador. The 23-year-old started in the Senegalese’s first match against Bolivia (2-0 victory) before remaining on the bench against Iran (1-1) on Tuesday.