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Furthermore, and perhaps more importantly, FIFA has introduced a protracted period to every contract which ultimately means that a player cannot terminate the contract before some of the term has already passed. In most cases therefore, this procedure would only be available to players who have already made a decision to end their contract before the end of the season, as the window of opportunity is very small. The main problem that players are faced with if they want to employ this procedure is that according to Article 16 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, unilateral terminations can only take place at the end of any particular season, and the player only has a short window of two weeks from the end of the final match of the previous season during which he has to notify his club that he is willing to terminate his contract. The FIFA transfer rules allow the unilateral termination of the playing contract by the Player only in certain conditions. However, in the wake of the Bosman decision, FIFA updated their transfer rules. As such the argument that damages would be the only recourse for the clubs if a player unilaterally breaches his contract seemed to be a sound argument at the time. Similarly, a court will also be reluctant to grant a negative injunction preventing a person from taking up a different employment position after a breach of contract. This argument was based on the fact that that football contracts are essentially employment contracts and that the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act forbids the ordering of specific performance of labour contracts. One compelling argument suggested that a contract can be ended before the end of the contractual term by the player and the player would be able to walk away from his football club, after simply paying compensation to the club. Following on from the last post on this blog, what can a player do to release himself from his playing contract before the expiration of his terms if no buy-out clause exists in his playing contract? In the wake of the decision of the Bosman case it was felt that the ruling which allowed out-of-contract players to move freely to other clubs could have implications for those under contract too.