Ban Essien agent - Blatter

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has suggested Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien’s agent should be suspended until an appeal is heard against his conviction for financial irregularities over a previous transfer involving the midfielder.

Fabien Piveteau is still a licensed agent with the French Football Federation despite having been convicted in May of being an accessory to the diversion of funds during the midfielder’s move from Bastia to Lyon in 2003.

Piveteau received a two-year suspended sentence, against which he immediately appealed and is currently waiting the outcome of the hearing.

“The FFF could [suspend him],” Blatter told The Guardian.

“They could suspend this agent until the moment when the [appeal] decision is finally taken.”

However, Christophe Drouvroy, the FFF’s deputy legal director, said no action would be taken until the appeal had been concluded.

“French law forbids that someone may hold a licence as a players’ agent if he is definitely condemned...he would be stripped of his licence,” he said.