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The FA fear that QPR will exercise the right to either have their disciplinary hearing on Tuesday delayed or abandoned completely.
QPR would have to make an application to the independent Regulatory Commission in the next 24 hours, citing claims that the club have already been found guilty before any defence evidence has been submitted.
QPR have been charged with seven breaches of regulations relating to third-party ownership and agents concerning Argentinean midfielder *Alejandro Faurlin.
Yet reports last week, quoting FA sources, claimed the evidence against QPR was damning and they could face a 15-point deduction and be forced to drop down from automatic promotion into the play-offs.
Although the FA have moved swiftly to distance themselves from these reports, Rangers are within their rights to claim there case has been tarnished and as a result they are unlikely to get a fair hearing.
Any significant delay in the hearing would effectively rule out QPR being docked points that would prevent them from securing automatic promotion.
The club claimed via their own website that they paid £3.5 million for Faurlin in 2009. The truth is they merely made a deferred payment to agents who owned the player’s economic rights of around £600,000.
Faurlin was also signed prior to the introduction of new regulations regarding third party ownership and QPR were transparent about the deal with both the Football League and the FA and provided documentation that there would be no third party influence.
And when they did buy out the rights to the player a year later they informed the Football League and paid the money through the FA.
The FA decided to investigate the deal when QPR boasted of paying £3.5 million and sent independent lawyers into the club in January of this year.
At worst it appears QPR used a licensed agent, but who wasn’t registered with the FA, and may be guilty of a clerical error.
And it seems unlikely that if the case is eventually heard they are more likely to receive a slap on the wrist and substantial fine.
QPR would have to make an application to the independent Regulatory Commission in the next 24 hours, citing claims that the club have already been found guilty before any defence evidence has been submitted.
QPR have been charged with seven breaches of regulations relating to third-party ownership and agents concerning Argentinean midfielder *Alejandro Faurlin.
Yet reports last week, quoting FA sources, claimed the evidence against QPR was damning and they could face a 15-point deduction and be forced to drop down from automatic promotion into the play-offs.
Although the FA have moved swiftly to distance themselves from these reports, Rangers are within their rights to claim there case has been tarnished and as a result they are unlikely to get a fair hearing.
Any significant delay in the hearing would effectively rule out QPR being docked points that would prevent them from securing automatic promotion.
The club claimed via their own website that they paid £3.5 million for Faurlin in 2009. The truth is they merely made a deferred payment to agents who owned the player’s economic rights of around £600,000.
Faurlin was also signed prior to the introduction of new regulations regarding third party ownership and QPR were transparent about the deal with both the Football League and the FA and provided documentation that there would be no third party influence.
And when they did buy out the rights to the player a year later they informed the Football League and paid the money through the FA.
The FA decided to investigate the deal when QPR boasted of paying £3.5 million and sent independent lawyers into the club in January of this year.
At worst it appears QPR used a licensed agent, but who wasn’t registered with the FA, and may be guilty of a clerical error.
And it seems unlikely that if the case is eventually heard they are more likely to receive a slap on the wrist and substantial fine.
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