of course fifa should have dealt with stains on football such as msi. but the idea that players should only deal with upstanding clubs is laughable. football clubs all over the world are also being bought up by unscrupulous criminals using other people's money. the concept of fit and proper owners has simply been thrown out of the window in pursuit of money.

the entire financial side of football needs to be restructured so that only clubs and communities benefit and not dodgy businessmen. and it's never going to happen.

jem, london, uk

The Brazilian football is run by people like Ricardo Teixeira, who just cares about how much money the Brazilian Squad (him included) can make. He´s saling the matches all around against technically poor teams, but pays good fees to CBF (The Brazilian FA). The result we could see at the world cup last year.
On the teams level, the situation is as bad as.
Apart from teams like São Paulo and Santos, most of them are run by the same people for decades. People who use the teams for personal purpose. Corinthians´ (the 2nd most popular team in the country) President Ricardo Dualib naively believed that Kia J and MSI would sort out all the money matters like that. Corinthians are now in serious debt. It owes U$ 8 million to a French team for borrowing a footballer. Moneyless, Fifa can punish Corinthians for that, which means losing points in Brazilian tournament, ending up the seasn relegated to 2nd division.

Frank Honma, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Can't agree MORE with Tintin. Agents must never be allowed to own player rights. This is an exercise in agent greed. The FA and Premier League must come up with enforceable rules governing agent behavior. This dodgy agent has been allowed too much run of the land and must be stopped.

Joseph, Vancouver, Canada

Anybody needed to deliver the money to Mr Joorabchian, once it's been "paid" to West Ham? I shouldn't be too busy next month.

Peter Koeb, Geneva, Switzerland

I could give Sheffield Uniteds feeble attempts at "justice" some credence if they had complained at the time the decision to be fined and not docked points came out. They didn't (believing along with most West Ham fans that we were as good as down) Only started wailing and bleating when they were finally relegated via a very dubious home defeat. Get over it and stop crying. Its thier own fault nobody elses

David King, Denham,

players agents with little experience are been allowed to make alot of money.is it not time for players to be represented by professionals such as lawyers or accountants who are all regulated and have professional indemnity insurance.

b. akoodie, batley, west yorkshire

I think West Ham does not have the right of the player.

They keep denying this , cos they dont want to go down.

But , clearly, they did some bad businese last season.

G, oldcastle,

I'll bet West Ham would have been deducted points if Trevor Brooking had been an ex-Sheffield United player

Chris, Fishguard, Pembs

I agree with Tin-tin, but West Ham should be avoided as they are clearly a dodgy and deceitful club. That club has single handedly ruined the image of football in this country.
I only hope that this saga results in the Ham receiving an approriate punishment for their continued lying to the league and all its members both past and present.

Throw them out of the prem and have a 19 team league this season, 4 promotion places up for grabs in the championship this coming season.

As for the Hammers, well i would send them to the conference, that would wipe the smirks of their deceitful faces!!

Neil Colclough, Hull, UK

The real problem with the Teves affair is the speculation. Every man and his dog has had their say, but so far all rullings have gone in favour of the PL. If the high court rules agianst the PL then the PL legue is basically finishished as a credible organisation. We will be in the bizzare situation where every decision that goes against a club can be challenged in the courts. How may referees are going to be haulled in front of bewigged judges, justifying their decision not to award a crutial goal or penalty or sending / not sending a player off that caused a club to get relegated. Its too easy for fottball to get murkey , too much ego, too much expectation, too much money, Just look at the state Leeds are in now and before them Notts Forrest..

Barry, Hornchurch, UK

Can we get over this "won it on the field" mentality?

Ben Johnson won "it" on the track - what happened to him and all other cheats?

Point proven

k nolan, dorchester, uk

What exactly did West Ham do wrong, bearing in mind all transfers and loan agreements are carried out under the watchful eyes of the Football League and Fottball Association?

Pretty simple - they concealed documents relating to the transfer, told direct lies to the FA, and then, when finally caught out, and fined, claimed to have "ripped up" the deal with MSI, removing thir claims to Tevez, in order to continue playing him. A claim that's subsequently proven to be utter nonsense.

Allesandro Del Bin, Bang,

I don't know about the European football clubs, but the brazilian ones are all about money laudering. So the "news" do not surprise me not even a bit.

Fabio C, London, UK

Tintin

In an ideal world what you said above would be perfect. However, if you have seen the struggles and hardship that hundreds of gifted football players in South America have to face, you won't be saying that. Yes. They need to be careful but sometimes, this may be their only way out.

How ever, it is clear that there are lessons to be learned from this case.

I can't imagine West Ham going over there to try and sign some potentially great players.

Joe, Cardiff,

Would the arbitration panel please say why they would have deducted points from West Ham, in the original judgement? What exactly did West Ham do wrong, bearing in mind all transfers and loan agreements are carried out under the watchful eyes of the Football League and Fottball Association? It seems to most West Ham supporters that this is purely emotional sentimentality from the panel towards clubs not worthy of staying in the Premiership by their performance, but try to pin the blame on i,s not dotted and T,s not being crossed. Instead of deducting points, they should make their rules clearer for future transactions.

Simon Cotton, West Mersea, Essex

Players probably don't know any better and can't be blamed for finding they are dealing with dodgy businessmen.

However football clubs are run by experienced men of the world who know exactly with whom they are dealing. They should suffer the consequences if their deals turn out to be tainted.

Snowy, Northumberland, UK

Hopefully South American players will learn from this fiasco and stop signing agreements with dodgy businessmen instead of a proper football club

Tintin, London, UK