FIFA Set to Take On Agents With Proposed Changes to Transfer Market

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A key committee at FIFA is expected to approve a series of proposals on Wednesday that would seek to reform the multibillion-dollar player transfer market by limiting the influence of the sport’s biggest agents and also prevent clubs like Chelsea, Juventus and Manchester City from stockpiling talent.

Some of the conclusions of FIFA’s player status committee, which would approve the changes, mirror those in an internal FIFA report, created last year at the behest of the organization’s president, Gianni Infantino. Infantino has pledged to try and tame a transfer industry that has turned a small group of powerful agents into some of the most influential…