adminclubs, at 28 percent average commission, as their total take from cross-border transfers rose $33 million last year.
“2012 witnessed a greater involvement of intermediaries,” stated Fifa subsidiary Transfer Matching System (TMS) in an annual survey.
Clubs in 200 countries must use the online platform to detail all their payments when players move between different countries either for a fee, on loan or when out of contract.
English clubs spent the most, with Fifa processing $59 million in fees to agents in international deals.
Italian clubs paid $41 million and Russian clubs $23 million, and agents also banked payments from players which Fifa’s system doesn’t record.
“Obviously, money going to an intermediary is leaving football,” TMS general manager Mark Goddard said in a conference call. Fifa’s insight into agents’ earnings from clubs follows after football’s governing body revealed it was trying to help teams cut out middle men. — AFP.
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