FIFA v Diarra: A Changing Transfer Market?

By Charlotte Smith, Partner, and Adam Melling, Associate, in the Employment & Sport teams at Walker Morris In October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its much-anticipated ruling in the case of FIFA v Lassana Diarra [1]. The CJEU could not have been more explicit in its rejection of FIFA’s multi-pronged, imprecise, discretionary and disproportionate system of sanctions applicable to a player who terminates their playing contract without just ca