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FIFA sees EU’s top court side with Diarra in fight over football transfer rules (update*)

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 04 Oct 2024 09:56
  • 04 Oct 2024 19:08
Football rules restricting the ability of players to leave their clubs mid-contract break EU principles on competition and free movement, the bloc’s highest court said today. 
Judges said it looked as if clubs were colluding not to hire each other’s players and to restrict competition on a key resource. They

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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