A compensation claims that the Arab Euro may be priced and included 100,000 footballers who have played professionally in the European Union in the last 23 years, changing the financial landcap of the game.
The Dutch Foundation Justice for Players (JFP) has launched a case against Global Governing Body FIFA. Hence the German Football Association (DFB) and France, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark are named in the case.
“It wants the amount of billions,” said Dolph Segar, a JFP lawyer and board member.
“It’s not just money. It’s about fair rules, which we believe that football industries are also important.”
The lawsuit follows a historic decision from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) last October, in a case brought by former real Madrid and French player Lasana Dyer. The midfielder wanted to eliminate his contract with Locomotive Moscow in 2014, but after leaving the Russian Locomotive, a Belgian was unstable to join the Club, was owned by his registration and did not have what was not the details for the termination as “just the reason”.
The ECJ ruled that the FIFA transfer laws that apply at that time, “disrupt the free movement of professional footballers, who want to develop their activity by working for a new club.” The organization replaced those laws in December, but was very less strictly expected than the advocates.
Footballer does not behave like other European Union workers
Unlike the labor law of the European Union regularly, footballers are bound by contracts when they join a club or join a deal. Therefore, unlike other workers, they can’t work anywhere else without their employer, which agrees for the fee with another interested party for a transfer – or until their contract ends.
Even exit at the end of the contract is a relatively new concept in football, which is to be presented only after another landmark case in 1995 known as the Bosman ruling – named after the player who brought the case. Jean-Luis DuPont, Dyre’s lawyer and Belgian players are advising Jean-Mark Bosmanat the Time, JFP.
The Bosman regime changed football significantly, leading to more power on their careers and contributed to the huge wage hike at the top end of the game in the last 30 years.
Christina Philipau, Associate Professor in Accounting and Sports Finance at Partsmouth University in England, think that a compromise or victory in court may have a similar impact for JFP.
“Essentially, if you are saying that a person can walk away from a contract, it restructures the system,” he told DW. “Electricity changes, and it makes it like cases of normal employment.”
Philipau explained that footballers are currently considered a “abstract property” by clubs, providing them a value in accounting of a club and allowing them for something in terms of spreading value on a long -term contract and other search practices. It is especially important that European clubs often have to follow the financial rules of domestic league and European football governing bodies, benefits and stability from UEFA.
Transfer fee, high wage?
Given the financial interests at stake, she hopes that the JFP will come to an agreement with the association and FIFA that maintains some types of ticketed transfer systems, although it says that it can see the transfer fee lower or missing.
“The transfer fee is effectively buying you out of your contract. Now if we return to normal employment rights, which looks effectively, it happens completely.”
So predict that we can see another increase in wages for those at the top of the game, resulting in Europe to become even more attractive to non-EEU players, and perhaps being a shorter of contracts longs. Long -term contracts can be meaningless if a player can move away from the deal at any time without transfer fee. This in turn can be problematic for small clubs, which rely on the sales of the player, while the players had reduced the league or will face more risk from injury or disease. The short term short term contract becomes even more.
Seaar, also, expects some changes in the transfer model, but thinks that talks mean that it is not so rigid.
“I still believe that if you move from one club to another club, there will still be a child of compensation from payment to another from one club for transfer of the player under the existing contract.
“I am not Sura whether the mass of the players will eliminate your agreements without any reason, because you want to go to another club, and if you are seen as an incredible player who easily fulfills the terms of their contracts, why does another club take risks?”
FIFA, FAS and Club can count the cost of the lawsuit
Dutch lawyer told DW that, letters were sent only to JFP on Monday, some players have been signed up so far. The case is being brought to the Netherlands, the people living there will be recited. But any player who has played professionally in the European Union or UK, what is a man or female since 2002, who wants to be eligible. He “does not believe that this is a big challenge” to draw players to join the lawsuit.
“It has not been imported whether you have been transferred during this period or not. It is just due to your low interaction status and disintegration caused by the rules you have faced losses,” he said.
JFP claims that the players earned 8% lower during their career as a result of FIFA transfer rules.
Whether Seagor and JFP should be successful, FIFA and National Football Association in the European Union may cost largely. For high-devotional league European Union countries such as Spain, Germany and France, punishment can be ruined for clubs, which can be passed by their FA at cost, given that they pay the wages of the players.
Philipau said, “A lot of clubs are facing losses.”
“It can be quite problematic. It is a lot of money and as it is a loss, (it) can be paid. It’s not something you can talk about how you reorganize and fix the system, this is something that you have for now.”
Reports show that FIFA has been until in early September to respond to the threat of legal action. JFP hopes that the case will reach court in 2029 if no agreement may be made in advance.
While FIFA has not yet responded to a DW Querry, DFB has fought for DW that he has received correspondence from JFP, which “now the leg has been reviewed internally,” saying that they are pronounced to comment on materials or further details. “
Edited by: Chak Penfol
