Top agents ready to fight FIFA control

World football’s leading agents are preoccupied by FIFA’s efforts to limit their vast earnings from the game while their clients are performing in russia.

A FIFA task force is currently consulting throughout football before bringing out a new set of regulations that it is hoped will restore order to an agency business careering out of control.

The most contentious ruling under discussion is putting a cap on the amount of money an agent can earn from a transfer. The original proposal of three percent has been rejected out of hand, with five percent now being considered in Zurich. But even that figure would cause major ructions with the middlemen if it is a mandatory rule rather than a guideline.

So much so that the big three football agencies — Jonathan Barnett and david Manasseh’s Stellar Group, Jorge Mendes’ GestiFuti and Mino raiola, whose £41m cut from Paul Pogba’s move to Manchester United was the catalyst for change — are warning FIFA of a potential legal challenge over trade restrictions to the European Court if an earnings cap is introduced.