From the Guardian
Sepp Blatter tonight said that clubs found guilty of poaching players should be docked points to discourage a repeat of the Gaël Kakuta affair. The Fifa president was speaking publicly for the first time since Chelsea were banned from signing new players until 2011 for illegally inducing Kakuta to break a contract with Lens.
"It is so right when you speak about taking points away," said Blatter, who was speaking at the launch of the Football Association of Wales's new training facilities. "The other day there was a big fight in Switzerland because the two leading clubs last season, Basle and Zürich, were not behaving well. In the first instance both of the clubs were punished to have matches without spectators, and then I was asked what is my opinion. My opinion is that to have a match without spectators you punish football. You don't punish the clubs.
"I have said I would take one point away from each one and then it would be finished and there would be no more problems. The best thing is to take points away. Take racism, if there is a fine of £100,000 or £200,000, you will always find someone that pays the fine. But if you take away points then this will be an example. The national associations must have the courage to do so and then you will stop that. You have to touch them were it hurts. Take away points and you will see it is finished."
He revealed that Fifa is investigating "many, many cases" similar to Kakuta's and also suggested that the Chelsea ruling has provoked a nervous reaction among other clubs. "I can tell you there are clubs who are, a little bit, looking in their books and some of them have already announced that such and such a player has 'no contract with us, he's still an amateur', just to make sure that he will not be under the jurisdiction of a congress decision to protect young players."