The transfer market could be transformed after FIFA announced it will impose a 10 per cent cap on all agents’ fees next season, while €443.65m was paid in intermediary service fees in 2021 alone, €183.18m of it between English and Italian clubs.
The report showed that English clubs had intermediaries involved in 203 of their 562 incoming transfers for this year, so 36.1 per cent.
They were narrowly followed by the Italian teams, who had intermediaries working on 35.5 per cent of their transfers.
Overall, the FIFA report shows that $500.8m (circa €443.65m) was spent on intermediary service fees in 2021 and when it comes to the figures, England is way out in front with $133.3m (€118.08m).
Germany followed with $84.3m (€74.67m), then Italy on $73.5m (€65.1m) and a big drop-off again to Spain on $34.8m, France $30.3m and Portugal $29.3m.
While spending on actual transfer fees shrank for the second year in a row, the money spent on intermediaries increased.
Following the report, FIFA announced plans to impose a 10 per cent cap on agents’ fees from next season.
That is not the previous suggestion, which was to place a cap on commissions, but rather the full agents’ fee.
“Feedback from key stakeholders with expert knowledge such as the ECA and the Premier League have clearly pointed out the need to ensure all forms of service fees are capped to avoid circumvention and to ensure the cap is effective and addresses the issues identified,” read the report.
“The simple reality is that, particularly at the top level of the game where such practices are often identified, football agents are very often paid on a fixed-fee basis, and by the engaging club. Failing to cap fixed fees therefore permits abusive and excessive practices to continue.”
$500.8m paid in intermediary service fees in 2021
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for once fifa have made a good decision.Dirtbags like raiola needed this
There is desperate need to cut the agents income since, to be honest, they add nothing to the world of football. And when you see that lots of them earn a lot more than good footballers, you know something in the system is wrong. Hopefully this will be real someday
@VITTORIO – ‘its’ not ‘it’s’
“Poor” Raiola, can`t wait for his rant 😀
All this will do is make more of the money disappear off book and you will end up with more shady stuff going on by teams like Rubentus, I read that FIFA want all the money from a transfer to go through a clearing house that they control, just seems to me like they want a slice of that transfer pie, and you can be damn sure UEFA will be at that table too