'We’re not little kids': leading agents ready for war with Fifa over new rules

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Mino Raiola and Jonathan Barnett, both senior members of the Football Forum, are threatening action over proposed changes

“Fifa will not exist in 10 years’ time,” predicted Mino Raiola at the World Football Summit in November. Best known for representing Erling Haaland, Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Matthijs de Ligt, the 53-year-old was responding in typically bombastic fashion to confirmation a fortnight earlier that football’s governing body was pressing ahead with a raft of controversial new regulations for agents.

Perhaps the most contentious is Fifa’s intention to introduce a cap that would limit agents of the selling club to 10% of the transfer fee, and agents of the buying club to 3% of the fee. The regulations, scheduled to take effect in January 2022 having entered a third and final “consultation process” in November that is continuing, would also force agents to become licensed and undergo an exam conducted by Fifa, and make all transactions public, allowing supporters to see how much agents are paid on deals.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/31/agents-ready-for-war-with-fifa-over-new-rules-raiola-barnett-football-forum

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