Egged on by the Gallic Gonk, no doubt. I see there are no German clubs targeted...he must be collaborating.
Meanwhile, in the case of this youth he is, infact, involved in a legal battle with Rennes himself over the nature of the contract that was signed.
FIFA would have to wait for the outcome of that case first, and then carry out any investigation (which could not be done before due to the fact that they would be open to a kicking in court from us if they find us guilty, impose a penalty, and then Helan is found to have just cause in his case).
Any ban that they would impose would be turned over by the CAS anyway due to the fact that it will have been Helan's fault in declaring himself able to transfer when he was not (City will drop him like a hot potato if he loses his case).
Option 2 would be for our owners to buy Rennes, burn it to the ground and stake the directors over an ant hill.
In further updates, it appears Rennes are trying to uphold an agreement signed when the player was
13 years old (good luck with that, as European law dictates than no one under 16 can be the signatory of a legally binding contract), and that City also have in their possession a clearance document from the French Football Federation indicating that the player was free to sign with City in Feb 2008, when he was 16.
Time to do a Man U I think and counter-sue.
"The players come from all over the world, the money from deep underneath the Persian Gulf, but, as another, older City poster campaign put it, this is their city. They may now exist in the global spotlight, but they intend to keep it that way."
