FIFA goes the Uhuru Way, Introduces new Reforms

As Kenya receives new police reforms, reports have it that a FIFA  task force has proposed the use of an algorithm to calculate transfer fees as well as a luxury tax and a limit on the number of players who can be loaned in a report on possible reforms to the soccer transfer system.

It said that an inflated transfer market was driving “unsavoury practices which may lead to the exploitation of players”.

In a section on the role of agents, the report added: “The transfer system appears to have turned into a speculative market. This is not fair to the football clubs or grassroots which are the foundation of the professional sport.”

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said after being elected in 2016 that transfer system reform was one of his priorities and he has since voiced his concern at spiralling transfer fees.

It raised several ideas for putting the brakes on fees, including the use of an algorithm, or set of mathematical rules, to calculate the value of players.

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