FIFA

4 June 2019 - 12:12 PM

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Getty Images | FIFA’s proposed banking system has been met with praises by the Professional Football Association’s deputy chief executive, Bobby Barnes.

“Agents become more powerful by the day”

  • FIFA’s proposed banking system has been met with praises by the Professional Football Association’s deputy chief executive, Bobby Barnes.
  • But the idea of a transfer bank, where FIFA can verify all transfers and confirm the destinations, does not solve the problem of excessively high agent fees. 
  • Barnes spoke to offthepitch.com and said: “We have seen agent fees growing faster than player wages and that can’t be right.”

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