Introduction
The number of international football transfers over the years has been increasing. In 2019, the football transfer market reached unprecedented numbers. According to FIFA Global Transfer Market Report 2019 - Men[1], clubs around the world completed 18,042 international transfers, of which 64,3% were related to transfers of players without contract with a club.
These numbers demonstrate that the international football market is not only fed with transfers involving fees. In fact, it is the opposite, which gives to the football’s legal framework certain grounds of complexity.
Despite the fact that the value of transfers reached USD 7,350,000 in 2019 (approx. EUR 6,500,000), most of transfers were related to players who: a) had expired employment...
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