Summer transfer window 2017

[takeshisteve22]

"Over the past few hours it has spread a rumor, relaunched by the Italian media and from Afrique Press, who argues that the problem arose during a medical yesterday's Franck Kessie with Milan is relative age of the Ivorian football player, having more years compared to 20 declared and legible on all official documents of the player. MilanNews.it has found an article, dating from 2013, which could give an explanation to the genesis of this hoax around age Kessie. In an article by Afrik-foot.com, it explains that Morocco, after being eliminated from the Ivory Coast in the U17 World Cup, he stressed that, on the official website of the Federation of the Elephants, was specified '1 January 1991' as date of birth dell'Atalanta the player. On the site of FIFA, however, it was given the correct date or '19 December 1996 '. A representative of the FIF (Football Federation of Côte d'Ivoire) had explained that it was a simple mistake of the computerized system management because, when not specified a date as in the case of Kessie, the system generated a date at random. Most likely, then Afrique Press this news combined with that of a small physical problem arose..The mandatory use of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was introduced by FIFA in 2009 for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup to help ascertain whether players are over age or not. MRI is considered to be 99% accurate until the age of 17, after which it becomes harder for medical professionals to calculate a person's age. Professor Jiri Dvorak of FIFA said: "The efficiency stops at 17 and it's just pure coincidence that Fifa made their competition an under-17 event".[15] Every bone in the arm and leg has an end plate from which bones grow. When the growth is completed (usually around the age of 17-18), then this end plate disappears on the MRI scans.[15] Dvorak concedes that the scan results "will be unjust to 1% of all examined players".
This MRI scan was also heavily enforced during 2013 U-17 world championship which Kessie was a part of. Kessie passed that test while many players did not. End of story..."

just read this earlier from another forum...done a little checking from other sources and it seems to figure..maybe Franck can sue the Afrique Press for libel/slander.??....it still looks if the transfer will be finalised tomorrow at the latest though..i never post much at all despite reading all the latest gossip since back in the old forum in 1998....it feels like 2002 all over again with some promising signings and a great start to the summer mercato..i haven't felt this buzzed in years tbh..so much for a mere mid-table, mediocre team, with shite, sub standard players..the new management seem to have their heads screwed on and have a real project in place..how i've heard Berlu & Uncle Festa repeat that phrase for nearly 8 or 9 years, but were nothing more than empty, hollow words...the times they are a changing..and about time too..i don't know how many more years of heartbreak i could've watched..even friends who are lifelong Milanistas, born and bred there,but live here now in Ireland, who happen to live nearby, have been saying the same the last week or so..good to be on the up. 



"Everything is OK with Kessie after supplementary controls. He will undergo tests at Milanello tomorrow. [@PietroMazzara]

Note: He was actually supposed to have his tests at Milanello today, but due to the issue they found yesterday, it was delayed.