Barca's President " This ban is unjust"

J.M. Bartomeu, Barcelona's president says that the transfer ban handed to them by FIFA was unjust.

The Catalan club has been banned from buying players till the summer of 2015 as FIFA found the club guilty in the past few transfer windows while they were signing youth players.

Barcelona has said that they would be appealing against this ban.
"We are going to fight because this ban is a total unjust." said Bartomeu

The FIFA investigation for the under-18 players who played for Barcelona between 2009-2013 concluded that the club and the Spanish Football Federation are guilty of a 'serious' infringement of the rules of transfers of 10 players.

The rules of FIFA state that international transfers can only be permitted if the player is above the age of 18. Or unless the player in question follows any one the tree criteria.

1. Under 18's can only be permitted for an international transfer if the parents of the player move to that country for non-footballing reasons.

2. If he/she is from another country in the European Union or European Economic Area and is aged between 16 and 18.

3. If he/she lives within 100kms of the club.

After Chelsea appealed successfully against their two-year ban when they signed young Gael Kakuta from Lens, Barcelona confirmed a couple of days back that they would be appealing against this unjust ban on them just like the London club.

The rule seems to protect the minors against clubs which incorporate players without providing them rights and education, which are the basic needs for youth academies.

Barcelona were planing to buy big players like Juan Cuadrado, David Luiz and Marc-Ander ter Stegen, but due to the ban which unfortunately will last till the summer of 2015 would however affect their performance in the upcoming season as two key players ( V. Valdes and C. Puyol) would be retiring.
Barca would be on their tips to appeal against this unjust ban as they think that all the transfers in the last four years were legal.