With a system which, according to him, is “built in the sole interest of clubs”, Philippe PIAT, FIFPro President, believes that the situation is unacceptable for football players and severely contravenes to the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Reminding the complaints which had already been addressed by the European Commission to FIFA more than 10 years ago, he observes that nothing has changed…

He considers that the current version of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players does not allow players to breach their contract with the clubs under ordinary civil law conditions. By making the breach of the player’s employment contract conditional upon the payment of a transfer fee between the clubs, the player’s freedom of movement is infringed. This is why he requires that the sole basis of calculation to be taken into account is the amount of remaining wages owed up to the end of the contract term. He warns that if his message was to be ignored, he will turn to European authorities…