Why contact with the footballer’s entourage is not punishable

After the meeting held this Wednesday at Saragossa in between decorationsports director of FC Barcelonaand Felix Taintaagent of Nico Williamsreviving the controversy raised by the statement issued last week by Athletic Club of Bilbao where he reported to the RFEF about the exposure of Nico Williams in the media. Joan Laportapresident of Barçaacknowledged on Monday the 8th in Catalunya Ràdio that “there is money to sign” the Navarrese striker.

In this sense, the first contacts between the Barcelona club and the agent of Nico Williams They are not reportable. To do this, we must remember what happened in 2019 with Antoine Griezmann and his signing for FC Barcelona. The red and white club then came to denounce the Blaugrana for ‘holding on’ to the French footballer while his contract was still valid. In their case, they referred to the fact that those contacts were in March of that year, when the clause at that time was 200 million; and not from July 1, when it was reduced to 120 million.

The first thing to note is that this is something where the FIFA as these are two teams from the same association. And here it is Migration Law Regulations clarified that “the transfer of players between clubs of the same association is subject to a specific regulation, drawn up by the respective association” in addition to “each association must establish in its regulations the appropriate means to protect contractual stability, with due respect to mandatory national law and collective agreements”.

The truth RFEF Regulations states in its article 156 in relation to footballers with a current contract that “the club that wants to hire a professional footballer must notify its intention in writing to the club to which he is assigned before starting negotiations with him. ” .”

But a very different thing is that FC Barcelona there is a signed contract with the player Athletic Club of Bilbao and another has negotiations or interactions with the environment.

And we have the clearest precedent Griezmann and the complaint of Atlético de Madrid, which was resolved by only 300 euros in fines for the Barça club. The instructor’s proposal to request the closure of the Camp Nou for a fight.

In the resolution of Competition Committee that cannot be proven Griezmann would have signed a contract with Barça while he has another in force on Athletic. However, he considered it proven that the Barça initiated and maintained negotiations during that period without its prior written notice to Atlético de Madrid.

However, he does not consider a serious lack of Barcelona because he understood the Catalan club’s negotiations with Griezmann They started in May, when the French had already announced the Atlético de Madrid his desire to leave the mattress team.

So, many things will be tested in this hypothetical operation Nico Williams. First, the contacts of Barcelona with the player and then the position of the footballer is key if he finally recognizes that he wants to go to the Barça club.