Challenges to FIFAs new Football Agent Regulations (FFAR) may have a negative impact on various football participants but “could it ultimately prove to be FIFA’s Achille’s heel”? ...
Player and Agent Disputes – The relationship between a footballer and their agent is a delicate balance between harmony and acrimony. When it all ‘turns sour’, can mediation help?...
The capping of agent fees, whilst well-reasoned in a small number of cases, but will such a step actually favour the big agencies and be damaging to football overall....
Is it best that the football authorities (including FIFA) finally decide ‘enough is enough’ and ‘step back’ decisively on the matter of regulating football agents and football agent activity? And thus allow for Common law (or the law of another country where that applies to the contract) to regulate football...
Is it best that the football authorities (including FIFA) finally decide ‘enough is enough’ and ‘step back’ decisively on the matter of regulating football agents and football agent activity? And thus allow for Common law (or the law of another country where that applies to the contract) to regulate football...
During the period over which FIFA have been refining the FFAR in recent years, I maintained my belief (and also shared this belief with others) that FIFA would soften its stance in varying the ‘cap’ on agent’s fees, if only to demonstrate some ‘flexibility’ and signs that it was ‘listening’...
To use a very unfortunate analogy, I think that in some ways many football agents and intermediaries (if not also national football associations), may well feel that they are hostages in a tense ‘standoff’ over the new FIFA football agent regulations (FFAR). ...
In February (2023), FIFA announced the establishment of its new Agent Working Group (AWG), and in ‘essence’ I applaud this step, and agree with the ‘supposed’ purpose and intention - that the AWG “will act as a permanent consultative body in relation to football agent matters, including the practical implementation...
Changes to FIFA's football agent regulations could result in many disputes between players and agents - the dispute resolution mechanism that will help settle the raft of inevitable disputes between football agents and players (plus managers/coaches and clubs) will be mediation....
