Prem, Saudi clubs help fuel record $888m in agent fees – FIFA\u060c<\/p>\n
Clubs in England and Saudi Arabia have spent this year on player agents on international transfer deals to reach a record $888 million, FIFA said Thursday.<\/p>\n
FIFA has noted “isolated cases of service fees even exceeding $10 million”, although the governing body last month lost a key judgment in London, which threatens its global regulations which seek to limit the amount of fees. agents who can be paid in transactions.<\/p>\n
– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n Agents across Europe have taken legal action against FIFA and national soccer federations to block the rules that were due to come into force worldwide in October.<\/p>\n The project has stalled in England, where FIFA's latest research has shown they still dominate the multibillion-dollar player transfer market.<\/p>\n FIFA said English clubs were “by far the top spenders” in 2023, with a combined spending of more than $280 million on agents' fees on transfers between two clubs in different countries. Money from player transfers between two clubs in the same country does not count in FIFA's figures.<\/p>\n Total agent spending is up 42% from 2022 and more than a third from the previous high of $654 million in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.<\/p>\n Italian clubs spending $115.7 million is the only other collective nine-figure national total.<\/p>\n Saudi clubs have spent $86 million on agents as part of a state-backed recruitment program to bolster their domestic league with hires such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Karim Benzema.<\/p>\n FIFA did not elaborate on the details of individual transfers, but said that in 224 cases the agent's service fee was at least $1 million and that these transactions accounted for almost 69% of spending. total.<\/p>\n In most of the deals, agents received fees of between $10,000 and $100,000, FIFA said.<\/p>\n North and Central American clubs collectively spent $5.4 million on 20 transfers, and African clubs spent less than $200,000, FIFA said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prem, Saudi clubs help fuel record $888m in agent fees – FIFA\u060c Clubs in England and Saudi Arabia have spent this year on player agents on international transfer deals to reach a record $888 million, FIFA said Thursday. FIFA has noted “isolated cases of service fees even exceeding $10 million”, although the governing body last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7684,634,1143,1942,921,4391,6811,616,791],"class_list":["post-14821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-888m","tag-agent","tag-clubs","tag-fees","tag-fifa","tag-fuel","tag-prem","tag-record","tag-saudi"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14823,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions\/14823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}