The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has suspended Turkey Super Lig side Bursaspor from European competitions for one year for failing to pay the fee for Chipolopolo striker Collins Mbesuma when he moved from England side Portsmouth in 2007.
UEFA banned Bursaspor on Wednesday alongside two other Turkey Super Lig sides, Besiktas and Gaziantepspor who were also slapped with one-year bans for other financial misdemeanours.
According to Anatolia news agency of Turkey, Bursaspor chairman Ibrahim Yazici reacted harshly to the ban.
“We were not supposed to face a ban. This is a murder of law,” Yazici said.
Yazici said 2010 Turkey Super Lig champions Bursaspor would, like Besiktas, appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
“I cannot understand how a club without debt like Bursaspor can be hit with a ban. We believe that UEFA will return from its mistake,” Yazici said.
Bursaspor where scheduled to play in the upcoming Europa Cup League qualifiers after finishing fifth in the Turkey Super Lig.
Mbesuma joined Portsmouth from Kaizer Chiefs in 2005 after scoring a South Africa record of 27 goals in 33 matches then moved to Bursaspor in 2007 after a one season loan at Portugal side CS Maritimo where he scored seven goals in 23 matches.
The former Roan United prolific striker, who currently plays for Durban-based Lamontville Golden Arrows, left Bursaspor in 2007 on mutual consent to return to South Africa after playing only six matches for the Bursa-based outfit.
Turkey glamour side Besiktas, which was also scheduled to play Europa League qualifiers after finishing fourth in the league, was punished for failing to pay its players regularly according to the team’s lawyer.
Gaziantepspor on the other hand did not win UEFA qualification this year meaning their ban would be imposed in the first season when the team qualifies for a European cup competition.
Eskisehirspor would replace Besiktas in the Europa Cup qualifiers, but UEFA was yet to announce whether another Turkish team would replace Bursaspor in the same competition.
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Who was t be paid. Is it Mbesuma or the club that loaned him out to Busaspor????
How much is involved. Liato can bail them out.
Nishinga bushe?
Weldone to UEFA. JUSTICE MUST prevail
How much is involved? mbesuma in the pic what was he doing-signing or pretending to sign. Ku gwira pen sibalesa manje ka gwiridwe. writing or signing whilst looking the other way thats why they gong’a you but imwe tu bursaspor pay him what is due to him. atase
Oh yes please give us the amount. We need to know.
Bursaspor has refused to pay because they were gongad by Portsmouth. Imagine how do u pay $5m for Mbesuma even me I wud ve refused. So Bursaspor I urge u not to pay.
dont pay them…how do you pay for some guy who doesnt even know how to hold a pen…ngani writing kaya…..reading…ni Jelita and Mulenga and Sarah and robert only…
akasoo naimwe bamwine but alisungapo na talent yakwe te fyo?
No 6 We do appreciate that you are able to have a computer and can write SHIT but please certain articles need to be commented on with the respect they deserve. What wrong with UEFA reacting in the manner they did. We dont need such *****ic comments pleeeeaaaaaseeeee
ba fee-colour bonse mwe baletuka Mbesuma tamwateyapo na bola… Matter-call yenu… He deserves the money coz he worked for it and the more reason why UEFA banned them
Serious contracts should be signed while sitted and looking at the contract paper. Kaya!
Wats wrong us Zambians ayi? Why don’t we support one another, wats really wrong???????? Why are we like this????? @ CYCLE MATA, u may know how to write but believe me, u will die poorer than Mbesuma, hez been to places and has done sumthing for his future while still young!!!! In case u dont know bashi Morientes (Mbesuma) has got cash my friends!!!! U can spend years at school but that doesnt matter, wat maters is what u do in lyf, God has given us different talents, MIND U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>>>>>>>>>>
Lol! This is not Collins money you pathetic dreamers! It is the transfer fee the Turkish club is supposed to pay Portsmouth. It seems the Turks realised very late that they had signed a pig for a footballer.
Portsmouth claimed different amounts for the transfer fee, they changed their mind 11 times, can u believe this :)) ranging from 200K Euros to 500K Euros, and finally they shake hands for 300K including interest. This was 7 months ago, but UEFA though that Bursaspor paid it late on purpose which is not true because Portsmouth was changing the bid during the process. Unfair decision by UEFA, they better watch Greek clubs.
@ex zit…*****,you dont even know me n how much dough i have….i earn 15 times than him n can look@after you n your family 4 15 years without you raising a finger to toil…come to states i get you a job sucker…id1otas…..