Andrew Visnovsky

@soccerlawyer.bsky.social

He/Him. Senior Counsel | Vela Wood ⚽️ law expert. Some 🏀⚾️🎮🥍🥋🏋️🎰🎼🎭🦄📑 law too. Views my own. Nothing here is legal advice. Black Lives Matter. https://linktr.ee/soccerlawyer

The only time an agent issue would hold up a transfer is if an agent inked a deal for a player without the player’s knowledge. Even if a complaint is sent to the FIFA agent chamber, if the player intends to move yhe transfer would still go through, and any agent issue would be handled separately.

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3d ago

more evidence of ongoing disputes over the exact rights and obligations of various parties to be settled in any Diomande transfer this sort of thing is sadly not uncommon in world football, but it's also the job of a big agency like Roc Nation to sort it out before this summer


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🚨💣 BREAKING: Yan Diomandé to Real Madrid has not been announced yet because Diomandé's former agent, Max Gradel, is alleging BREACH OF CONTRACT in his terms with the player.

Real Madrid negotiated the deal with Roc Nation, and DID NOT KNOW of any issue involving his former agent.

This is considered a MAJOR ISSUE, and Max Gradel has now filed a COMPLAINT TO FIFA.

FIFA could now either grant Diomandé a provisional license to let the deal go through, or to DELAY it, or to COMPLETELY STOP the transfer.

Everything was DONE between Real Madrid & RB Leipzig, but everyone is now waiting for this issue to be solved. 
@diarioas

I’ve been fuming since Don Garber said League’s Cup was the original “In Season Tournament” but comparing it to Infantino selling off FIFA for parts to private equity is just an absurd stretch. MLS is already doing the private equity thing, no need to bring up Leagues Cup in that critique.

James Nalton@jdnalton.bsky.social · 4d ago

Open Cup, Concacaf Champions Cup should be the priority for US Soccer teams, not the Leagues Cup, especially not this season with the World Cup break. Instead MLS withdrew teams from the domestic cup again to accommodate it. There are similarities between FIFA's latest stunt and how MLS/SUM operate.

To further illustrate: Ben Shapiro and bigoted dorks over at the Daily Wire tried to do a documentary about men playing women’s sports, but couldn’t find anyone willing to go through the intensive hormone treatments required for the bit, so they made a scripted comedy instead.

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@anniempeterson.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s completely exhausting and disheartening that every freaking thing now has to be politicized by bad faith actors. There are no men clamoring to play in the WNBA. Thats just a stupid premise for a question. I’m just so disillusioned by it all.

It’s completely exhausting and disheartening that every freaking thing now has to be politicized by bad faith actors. There are no men clamoring to play in the WNBA. Thats just a stupid premise for a question. I’m just so disillusioned by it all.

Lotta snide comments about FIFA staff and employees speaking out against Infantino’s this private equity pitch. FIFA’s corruption is what it is, BUT FIFA is not a political party, corruption isn’t its platform, and it generally does not trickle down to staff that runs the day-to day.

If your loudest opinion on women’s sports is about preventing transgender people from participating, you aren’t engaged in women’s sports enough to know what “protecting” them would actually mean or count as a “good-faith person who cares”. That’s not care, it’s ignorance.

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Outside of the obvious retort, I can’t think of a reason why FIFA shouldn’t be requiring federations to apply for grants, or spending its money in places where there is a clear need, or managing payouts based on a sliding scale based on perceived need and federation size.

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · last wk.

Infantino tonight: "Too little of football’s growing commercial value has reached the parts of the game that need it most" Question: Why are you then giving it to parts of the game that don’t need it or have no requirement for so much of it?

To the folks with the dog who kept giving me dirty looks for bringing my two year old into the Silver Lake Tartine for a lil morning treat while they sat in the booth right next to the giant “No Dogs” sign: I hope you had a great morning.