The first phase of the PIF’s strategy was to invite large national companies to purchase football clubs in aims to improve the performance of the league’s financial revenues
New Era of The FIFA Clearing House
For decades, the transfer solidarity payments system has been broken even though the rules were simple: when a player is sold, 5% of the transfer fee should be split among the clubs that trained the player between the ages of 12 and 23. In practice, this money rarely arrived. Small clubs in continents like South […]
The Transfer Compensation Challenge
On 4th October 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment in the Diarra case (C-650/22) that effectively dismantled the legal architecture of the professional game in the biggest gamechanger since the 1995 Bosman ruling. By declaring that FIFA’s transfer regulations violate both freedom of movement and competition law, the […]
