The damage that Saudi Arabia can do to Spanish football

the market of Saudi Arabia, and the fact that there are still 20 days before it ends and not on September 1 as in the big leagues, is a problem for Spanish clubs. Because they can sign a player from our league, by paying the clause, with no room for maneuver for the affected team.

This is the third summer in which the acquaintance no longer exists for more than 20 years, the acquaintance as ‘Rivaldo Territory’.

This is a mechanism that until recently The league offered to their clubs when in this final sprint of the market, either summer or winter, they lose a player due to the payment of an indemnity clause. A defense mechanism included in its General Regulations since 1997 when the Barcelona Soccer Club he paid the brazilian clause Rivaldo in Deportivo de la Coruña there is almost no margin for the Galician team to replace their Brazilian star. A legacy of history.

This is the third summer market in which clubs no longer have this solution after the RFEF’s decision to remove it from its Regulations.

Until summer 2020 “if in the fifteen calendar days before the end date of any of the registration periods, a player unilaterally terminates the employment contract in force with his team under Royal Decree 1006/1985, the entity in which he is registered, will have an extraordinary period of 30 days from the date of termination to register a new player”. The player who can try to sign can only be a member of the Spanish League He has not left because the transfer market.

They can only sign players without a team

Logically, this caused a chain reaction because the normal thing is that a club that loses a player by paying its clause may want to look for players in the Spanish market, especially when the international sale is over. That is also why this third club that could be affected by the loss of a footballer, either paying for a transfer or also paying the clause, also had room for maneuver to get out of the market to find a player . “The same term will be given to Club or SAD which is subject to unilateral termination of the contract by the will of the football player, when the event occurs in which the aforementioned player is registered a Sports Club or Public Limited Company which had the distinction granted in the previous section”.

But it is already lost later, in the event that Arabia comes and signs by paying the clause of a footballer in the next twenty days, the Spanish club will have only one possible exit. And this is the signing of an “unemployed or unemployed player” as allowed by the regulations FIFA and the RFEF regulation. In other words, a footballer who ends his contract on June 30 with his previous club and continues without a club when the summer transfer market ends.