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How Football Careers Can End Before They Begin: The Hidden Cost of Unresolved Club Academy Disputes

When academy disputes fester unresolved, young players become casualties of adult conflicts they didn't create. This analysis examines the devastating consequences for players, families and clubs when preventable disputes escalate - from career paralysis and family destruction to wasted investments and talent loss. Drawing on professional mediation experience, it reveals...

13 December, 2025

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Football Club Academies: As Much a Potential Breeding Ground for Unnecessary Disputes as They are for Talent

Why do football academies - designed to nurture talent - sometimes become battlegrounds that destroy young careers? A sports mediator's insider perspective on the predictable patterns that create unnecessary conflicts and the early intervention strategies that can prevent them....

07 December, 2025

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Maybe Not Seismic for Everyone, but the Seraing Ruling is a ‘Watershed’ Moment for Sports Mediation

While legal experts debate the Seraing ruling's significance, there's a bigger opportunity emerging. The ECJ decision has made sports dispute resolution more complex and uncertain - exactly the conditions where mediation excels. This might be the watershed moment sports mediation has been waiting for....

12 August, 2025

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An Agent Regulation Reality Check: What We Think We Know vs. What We Actually Know

A recent regulatory case made me question whether any of us truly understand agent regulations as well as we think we do. When industry consensus conflicts with official rulings, what confidence can we have in our regulatory understanding?...

05 August, 2025

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FIFA’s Approach to Football Agent Regulations: Deliberate Industry Sabotage or Regulatory Failure?

Does FIFA's approach to Football Agent Regulations suggest a deliberate strategy to erode industry credibility and make individual agents obsolete rather than genuinely regulate the sector....

18 July, 2025

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A Football Transfer Dispute Ignited On Social Media – That Could Have Been Avoided With Mediation.

A Football Transfer Dispute Ignited On Social Media - That Could Have Been Avoided With Mediation....

18 February, 2025

FIFA Football Agent Regulation (FFAR) War Coming to an End? ….. Will the Civil War Now Start?

Many may understandably be looking ahead to next week's long-anticipated public hearing at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR) of 2023, and then hopefully being able to breathe a huge sigh of relief should a final ruling be delivered not long thereafter. But...

05 February, 2025

Mediation in the Dispute Between Agents and FIFA: Would or Could It Ever Succeed?

The FFAR dispute between FIFA and football agents could have been resolved (if not largely averted) long before now – and in a far more timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. That is if the values, attitudes, timelines, planning and approaches of all parties to the FFAR dispute had been better...

12 August, 2024

More Alarm Bells for Football Agents in the UK?

Whilst there is currently a considerable amount of uncertainty over the regulations and the relatively new FFAR (‘FIFA Football Agent Regulations’) with the industry awaiting a key ruling from the ECJ (European Court of Justice), does the football agent industry really need a belated intervention from yet another authority?...

01 July, 2024

UK Football Regulator Risks Missing a Mediation (and Med-Arb) Opportunity?

The UK Government's 'Independent Football Regulator' (IFR) is missing out on an opportunity to employ mediation to resolve what is in essence a ‘dispute’ (although it may be presented by some as a negotiation). A renegotiation of the deal between the Premier League EFL, has been reported as there being...

03 June, 2024

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