NY Times · Sep 13, 2018
FIFA Report Details Plan to Remake Soccer’s Transfer Market
Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s president, has vowed to seek changes to regulate soccer’s transfer market.FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, are planning to push for significant changes to soccer’s multibillion-dollar player trading business, changes that would limit the prices teams could pay for players and diminish the increasingly powerful role agents play in the market.
The proposals, detailed in an internal FIFA report created at Infantino’s behest, would represent the biggest overhaul of the transfer system since its inception.