In this contribution, Antoine Duval, Senior Researcher at the Asser Institute, challenges the conventional understanding of the FIFA transfer system by arguing that its primary function is not contractual stability, but transnational economic redistribution across football’s global ecosystem. Building on the implications of the Diarra judgment, he explores the structural limits and negative externalities of the current model and outlines possible avenues for decoupling redistribution from restrictions on player mobility.
By Antoine Duval
Senior Researcher, Asser...
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