{"id":59749,"date":"2025-08-10T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59749\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:00:09","slug":"italian-employment-lawyer-claims-atalanta-talisman-can-terminate-contract-with-just-cause-over-clause-in-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59749\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Employment Lawyer Claims Atalanta Talisman Can Terminate Contract With \u2018Just Cause\u2019 Over Clause In Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian employment lawyer Michele La Francesca believes Atalanta forward Ademola Lookman can terminate his contract with \u201cjust clause.\u201d<\/p>\n

La Francesco explained in a Twitter thread that the alleged agreement on a summer transfer between Lookman and Atalanta would violate employment law if it contained a non-compete clause.<\/p>\n

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It is certainly no secret that Ademola Lookman wants to join Inter Milan.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Atalanta forward has openly hit out at his current club for purportedly breaking a promise to him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lookman had already asked to leave Atalanta last summer, with Paris Saint-Germain making an offer.<\/p>\n

La Dea kept hold of Lookman, However, they did so with an agreement that they would allow the player to depart this summer.<\/p>\n

Lookman: come ho gi\u00e0 scritto, l\u2019accordo per la cessione tra il club e il calciatore \u00e8 pacifico poich\u00e9 ammesso da entrambe le parti. Che fosse valido solo per l\u2019estero lo dice l\u2019Atalanta. Tuttavia, se fosse come sostenuto dal club, questo accordo sarebbe nullo poich\u00e9 (segue) https:\/\/t.co\/9PZjULHOnv \u2014 Michele La Francesca (@miklafranc) August 10, 2025<\/p>\n

Now, Lookman wants to leave for Inter. However, Atalanta have already rejected two bids from the Nerazzurri.<\/p>\n

Atalanta CEO Luca Percassi has openly said<\/a> that La Dea don\u2019t want to sell Lookman to a team in Serie A. That is a part of the agreement from last summer.<\/p>\n

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However, an Italian employment lawyer has a different perspective on the situation.<\/p>\n

Italian Employment Lawyer Claims \u201cAdemola Lookman Can Terminate Atalanta Contract With Just Cause\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

BERGAMO, ITALY \u2013 MAY 12: Ademola Lookman of Atalanta warms up prior to the Serie A match between Atalanta and AS Roma at Gewiss Stadium on May 12, 2025 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Italian employment lawyer Michela La Francesca explains that \u201cthe agreement on a transfer between club and player is undisputed, both parties admit it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAtalanta claim that it\u2019s only valid for transfers abroad,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever, if it were as the club claims, then this agreement would be null and void. Because it would constitute a non-compete clause, which is prohibited by Article 26 of the Legistlative Decree number 36\/21, paragraph 6.\u201d<\/p>\n

La Francesca explains that this article stipulates that \u201cA contract cannot contain non-compete clauses. Or any clauses that limit the professional freedom of an athlete for the period following the termination of the contract itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNor can it be integrated, during the course of the relationship, with such provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that said, it seems unlikely that the parties were unaware of this rule and entered ino a substantially void agreement,\u201d La Francesca writes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe player\u2019s version (that the parties reached an agreement on a transfer at a fixed fee) is therefore more plausible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this perspective, invoking =Article 14 of the FIFA Regulations (which would allow Lookman to be released with \u2018just cause\u2019 considering the club\u2019s unfair conduct) would be a feasible option,\u201d writes La Francesca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian employment lawyer Michele La Francesca believes Atalanta forward Ademola Lookman can terminate his contract with \u201cjust clause.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23969,39294,30436,45,49,48,39291,124,39292,39293,39296,39290,39295,566],"class_list":["post-59749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-ademola-lookman","tag-as-roma","tag-atalanta","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-employment-lawyer","tag-jobs","tag-la-francesca","tag-la-francesco","tag-lo","tag-michele-la-francesca","tag-milan","tag-paris-saint-germain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}