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Fulham will have to wait until Friday to learn whether FIFA are to penalise them for the way they have handled the £11.5million transfer of Steve Marlet from French champions Lyon.
A meeting of the Players' Status Committee, postponed from Wednesday until Friday, will decide whether to place an embargo on the English premier league club's transfer dealings because Fulham failed to pay an instalment of £2.5million to Lyon by the January 22 deadline set by FIFA.
'The club will have the chance to provide an explanation to the Players' Status Committee when it meets,' said a FIFA spokesman.
'But the meeting has been delayed until Friday because of organisational matters.
'The Committee will consider the matter and decide on any ban. If a ban is decided upon, FIFA will inform the Football Association and it is up to them to make sure the club follow the decision.'
Fulham, who signed Marlet from Lyon in August 2001, say they withheld the payments because they were unhappy with the role Barcelona-based agents Sebastien and Pascal Boisseau played in negotiations.