This year, clubs paid the highest ever amount for football transfer brokerage services, a total of 807 million euros (ME), with the English being the biggest spenders, FIFA said today.
Compared to the previous year, there was a substantial increase in the value of paid intermediaries, on the order of 42.5%, taking into account the 570 ME presented in FIFA’s latest report.
The total amount given to agents is equivalent to around 10% of the total clubs spend on transfers.
England is the country that spends the most money, with mediation this year in the order of €256.5 million, in a context where European clubs have the largest share of agents’ payrolls, at 86.6%.
Behind the English, the new ‘market’ emerges, that of Saudi Arabia, which, although not linked to agents when players leave, is now linked to purchases, and this year is the second most spending country on intermediaries , with payments worth 78 euros. , 7 ME.
The Transfer Matching System (TMS), released every year by FIFA in the name of transparency, only takes into account mediation paid to club agents in international transfers, excluding same-country transfers or other services paid to player agents.
The report published today also indicates that 15.1% of purchases by Portuguese clubs were made through intermediaries and that 22.3% of turnover was also achieved, with 27.6 MU in commissions on arrival and 28.1 MU on departure of players.
Football played by women enters the TMS system for the first time, in a year in which more than a million dollars were spent on intermediary recruitment of players, a value close to 1.2 ME.
Club agents were involved in 125 of the transfers carried out, which represents an increase of 20% compared to last year’s figures regarding the ‘business’ of brokering the arrival and departure of players.
Source: DN
