Questions that decide
in the background.
Editorial briefings on recurring topics in advisory practice in professional football — procedural law, contract mechanics, market structures. General information; not legal advice on individual matters.
The full texts of all current briefings are available in German only. English summaries are provided below; English translations of selected briefings are available on request and produced for individual mandates as needed.
The Hidden Economy of a Player Contract
What clauses reveal about market power — and why the allocation of risk anticipates the allocation of value.
There is a short and a longer answer to the question of why most player contracts in professional football are not worth what they are communicated to be worth. The short answer: because the communicated number almost never matches the quantifiable reality, but is a PR figure behind which an entire contract architecture stands.
Termination Agreements with Professionals
Five contract traps from an employment-law perspective — and why they rarely arise where the negotiation happens.
The termination agreement is regarded in general employment law as the friendlier contract. In professional football this reading is misleading. Here the termination agreement is regularly the more legally demanding contract — more demanding, in any case, than the player contract it ends.
CAS Proceedings in Practice
Costs, duration, procedural logic — what mandates should know before Lausanne.
Anyone who enters a sports dispute that ultimately ends before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne enters a procedural framework that bears no resemblance to ordinary civil or labour jurisdiction. It is arbitral, not state. It is English or French, not German. It is final, not appealable. And it is more expensive and faster than most mandates expect — both at once.
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