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Originally Posted by jfman
As the Bosman ruling showed some of the football rules are inherently incompatible with the EU.
Essentially the authorities act as semi-closed cartels, collective bargaining for media rights and some sponsorship. A blind eye has been to some extent turned, and football clubs have never really challenged it due to the threat of being kicked out.
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The clubs can't exist in isolation, which means things like media rights would be complicated.
Most, if not all sports operate in a similar manner.
The Bosman ruling was about the specific situation where a player's contract had come to an end.
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In an interview with The Guardian, Bosman himself said: "Now the 25 or so richest clubs transfer players for astronomical sums and smaller clubs cannot afford to buy at those prices.
"So the 25 pull further and further away from the rest, deepening the gap between big and small. That was not the aim of the Bosman ruling."
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