"With the
Bosman ruling the player holds the cards.
So I invoked the
Bosman ruling because I was out of contract but left without telling Alex.
The
Bosman ruling and our league system have also hardly helped.
TOP AGENT Phil Smith has warned that the
Bosman ruling is a "double-edged sword".
This is the biggest football case the ECJ has handled since the 1995
Bosman ruling, which scrapped nationality quotas in club football.
The
Bosman Ruling turned top players into millionaires overnight when the European Court of Justice decreed that they could move as free agents on the expiry of their contracts.
Come tomorrow, 10 years will have passed since the
Bosman ruling allowed footballers to move freely at the end of their contracts.
The 24-year- old had his contract with the first division club cancelled by mutual consent earlier this month which allowed him to begin the search for a new side before the end of the season, when he would havebecomea free agent under the
Bosman ruling anyway.
However, QPR are keen to get him on board should he get back to 100-per- cent fitness although from Boro's stand point they'll receive no fee as the player is out of contract at the end of this term and under the
Bosman ruling will become a free agent.
Abel Xavier's departure from Goodison Park is the latest example of the power the
Bosman ruling has given to players.
THE
Bosman Ruling has put its fair share of players on the breadline but a growing number of top stars are making a killing from relaxed transfer rules.
Barlow, transferred from Wigan on a
Bosman ruling, made no mistake with the penalty.