Raiola unhappy with FIFA proposal: ’Let’s abolish transfer fees’

When Jean-Marc Bosman won his appeal to the European Court of Justice in 1995 and the so-called 'Bosman rule' was established, it changed the financial aspect of football forever. Fast forward 26 years and FIFA and UEFA are trying to organize the financial aspect of football. UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations has become a mockery (as seen in the examples of PSG and Manchester City), the clubs are being run by the national states, which makes the competition highly unfair, and football agents are ’swimming’ somewhere in between, earning ridiculous sums of money for their services.

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FIFA and UEFA want to trim their powerful status, probably because of the pressure from the big clubs, and certainly not because of the love for the game. If it is up to the world football association, agents will now receive a maximum of ten percent commission on a transfer fee and three percent of the salary.

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And of course, the greediest of them all, Mino Raiola is having non of it. The Italian agent, famous for his notorious negotiation ’skills’, as well as his list of clients (Haaland, de Ligt, Pogba, Ibrahimovic) is, obviously, against the idea.

"I don't take it. An agent must earn as much as possible for the player. What will be higher with this plan? The transfer fee or the salary? In fact, FIFA is saying that they do not go against the transfer fees, but against the salaries. The negotiating position of the players comes in this way cornered. Abolish the transfer fee. Then we will only talk about salaries. The whole system is wrong. It was devised by people who have no knowledge of the profession" said Raiola in Studio Voetbal.

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And that’s ’logical’ thinking from a man who earns around 115 million Ksh on every fee he makes for his clients, and who made around 3.8 billion Ksh when he arranged Paul Pogba’s transfer from Juventus to Manchester United in 2016. Former Aston Villa CEO Keith Wyness once said:

“I always laugh because Mino got on the phone with me the first day and said 'for me it's not about football, it's all about the money. I just want to make as much money as possible“.