Introduction

The principle of joint liability of Article 17 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP) is one of the cornerstones of the international football landscape as we have known it until now (one might say, between Bosman and Diarra).^[1] Notoriously, it determines automatic financial consequences upon the club which signs a contract with a player who is found to have unlawfully terminated their previous employment relationship. The ratio underpinning this principle has been abundantly scrutinised by several arbitral and non-arbitral tribunals and it has been recently examined (or, rather, bashed) through the lens of European Law,...

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