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.
Infantino had vowed to take on the transfer market — a chaotic world in which clubs and agents broker transfers with whispered rumors, secret promises and hidden fees — after he was elected two years ago.