The English Football Association asked FIFA to register Adrien Silva's transition from Sporting to Leicester.

On the last day of the summer transfer window, Lester purchased from Sporting for 25 million euros the Portuguese midfielder Adrien Silva, but for 14 seconds he was late with all the necessary documents to get from FIFA international transfer certificate.

According to the rules of the International Football Federation, now the European champion in 2016, will be able to receive a certificate no sooner than a new transfer window will open in January 2018, and accordingly will not perform until that time for Sporting, which no longer has the rights to Adrien Silva, For Leicester, who can not declare it in any tournament.

Help to resolve the situation took the English Football Association, which sent an official letter to FIFA with a request to enter the position of the player - reports the Air Force. The standard procedure for considering such petitions in the Committee on the status of players takes 30 days, so even if the issue is resolved positively, Silva will not appear on the field until the end of October.