Lassana Diarra

People that don't really follow football have no idea who Lassana Diarra is, but the insiders and lots of football clubs know his name very well, especially as of today. Lassana Diarra is a former French football player that played for Chelsea FC, Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Olympique Marseille and Lokomotiv Moscow. And that latter club is where the story starts. Lokomotiv bought Diarra for a transfer sum of 20 million Euro. He started quite well at the club, but after about 6 months, things went south. He didn't perform anymore, according to the club, and they offered him a downgrade of his wages. Which he declined. After missing a few training sessions, the club decided to tear apart his contract, and accused him of breach of contract.

Fifa and Uefa voted in favour of the club, and Diarra needed to pay a fee 10 million Euro to Lokomitiv as a fine for the breach of contract. He couldn't play for 2 years for other clubs if he didn't pay the sum.
This all was 10 years ago, Diarra started a judicial course that took 10 years, but today in Luxemburg, the European Judicial Court spoke a verdict that shakes the foundations of the current football economy.

"The contract rules of the Fifa and Uefa are completely opposed to the European Union's labour laws"

This means that the current transfer system, in which clubs ask 10's of millions of Euro for a player to change clubs is unlawful. An earthquake for football in the entire world!

Lower transfer fees

This verdict will have an immense impact on the economy of football. The monster numbers that are paid for transferring a player will probably become a thing of the past. Players will be able to stop their contract by paying a fee that is in correspondence with their wages. Which is not the case in the current football economy.
Transfer fees won't entirely disappear, but the big numbers will be gone, with a few exceptions for the players that earn monster wages.

Drama for smaller clubs

This is good news for the bigger clubs, the Real Madrid, Manchester City and Bayern Munich's from this world. They will have to pay a lot less to attract players, but it is a drama for the smaller clubs, that now rely on the transfer sums to complete their budget. Especially clubs from smaller countries like Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, etc... will have to rethink how they will be able to survive... They will probably have to pay higher wages, to be able to ask higher transfer fees, but of course that comes with a risk!

Lassana Diarra, the man that changed football's economy!

Sincerely,

Pele23

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