ANALYSIS OF THE ANTICIPATED ECJ JUDGEMENT
ANALYSIS OF THE ANTICIPATED ECJ JUDGEMENT ~Uyi Emmanuel Olubor Esq. Tomorrow, the fourth of October 2024 promises to be a very important day or better still a day that might mark the future of football for eternity. For those who are still at a loss as to what I am talking about. I believe we all remember Lassana Diarra, the ex french national team player and ex Chelsea and Real Madrid player. Sometimes in 2014, he was hired by Locomotiv Moscow of Russia. Then, not so long after his employment, he began to have issues with his employers which centred around a drastic reduction in his salary. This dispute finally dovetailed into the termination of the Contract. Feeling aggrieved, Locomotive Moscow laid a complaint before the FIFA DRC and Diara was asked to pay ten million dollars to the club. lassana Diara tried to move to club Charleroi in Belgium, but the Belgian club was a bit skeptical/afraid in order for it not to be held jointly liable with the player in repaying the said amou