The media may be full of transfer stories right now -- Cristiano Ronaldo's future, Barcelona's hunt for Robert Lewandowski, Paul Pogba's second homecoming at Juventus -- but something far more important, something that could change the club game forever, will be argued in a Luxembourg courtroom on Monday and Tuesday.
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Case C-333/21 will be heard by the European Union's Court of Justice (CJEU) at the request of a Spanish court that has asked for an interpretation of European competition law. The outcome will either cement the existing "European model" of football -- with its pyramid structure and its governing body, UEFA, acting as both competition organiser and regulator -- or it will lead to the game's Big Bang moment, opening the door to a European Super League like the one that was quickly quashed in the spring of 2021.