25/08/2025
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Lucas Ribeiro cannot terminate his Mamelodi Sundowns contract & say 'I'm leaving tomorrow' - Court of Arbitration for Sport lawyer
"I don't see on what basis the player would succeed [in this case], as good as [his] lawyer may be for the Bosman case, that was many, many years ago, there's been many cases since then," Raymond Hack told Soccer Beat.
Ribeiro is represented by Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont, who won the landmark 1995 case involving Jean-Marc Bosman and Lassana Diarra's legal battle against FIFA.
Dupont is confident that the Brazilian will be successful in his bid to terminate his Sundowns contract, but Hack has given Sundowns hope.
"The player can't just terminate and say, 'I'm leaving tomorrow, because another club wants to offer me more money' and if that's the case, the [interested] club must pay Sundowns what's due to Sundowns," Hack added.
Hack sits in the Court of Arbitration for Sport as an arbitrator for doping.