The first significant step towards football’s future will be taken on Thursday morning. Athanasios Rantos, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), is set to give his advisory opinion on how the court should answer questions on whether Uefa runs a “monopoly”, ahead of a final ruling in the first quarter of 2023.
Both sides are known to privately have varying degrees of confidence, with the parties around the three clubs who initially brought the case – Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, now working with sports management company A22 – quietly optimistic but sources on the side of the governing body more bullish.
