The license commission have announced that FC Twente will be banned from Europe for the next three years.
- By Michael Bell
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FC Twente have been under investigation from the KNVB after the leaking of contracts with investment company Doyen, which showed the club did not have control on certain player’s transfers.
The investigation has found that the Enschede club deliberately misled the licence commission and the verdict is that Twente will be banned from Europe for three years, fined over €45,000 and have their licence conditionally revoked.
A statement on the KNVB website announced that Twente’s licence will be revoked if the club do not “fully cooperate with an independent investigation into the current structure of the club.”
Twente have been tasked with finding out who is responsible for the contracts with Doyen and removing them from their role, as well as getting their structure back in order by the 1st of May 2016. If the License commission are not fully satisfied by then, Twente will have their licence taken from them.
The reason for the ban from European competitions is that an investigation learned that Twente had gained a UEFA Licence during the 2014/15 season wrongly, and participated in the Europa league. The license was obtained with inaccurate and incomplete information.
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I hardly think that Twente management has resorted to such practices because they are making money. Dutch football is in trouble UEFA has caused such an unbalance. The rich teams are getting richer and the gap is widening all the time. Greed, immorality and idolatry will be all our downfall. We are products of are own demise. Sport has become as corrupt as man is and it will never go away. I am sorry this has happened. Guys like Blatter and Platini have created corporate monsters that had nothing to do with the ethics sport and have only increased or forced smaller clubs into having to find unorthodox ways of having to just survive.