Covid hiring freeze for soccer faces EU antitrust test
(CN) - A Covid-era handshake deal to freeze player movement across Portuguese soccer is back in play Thursday after Europe's top court signaled the pact may cross antitrust lines but stopped short of blowing it up.
In April 2020, with stadiums empty and the season on ice, clubs in Portugal's top two divisions made a quiet pact with the national league: No signing players who walked away from their contracts