{"id":951,"date":"2013-01-10T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/fifa-moves-to-cut-agents-costs\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:25:00","slug":"fifa-moves-to-cut-agents-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/10\/fifa-moves-to-cut-agents-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA moves to cut agents costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"story-featured-image c6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2a1fFIFA-President-Sepp-Blatter-360x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bigstoryimage\" alt=\"FIFA President, Sepp Blatter\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featured-image-caption\">FIFA President, Sepp Blatter<br \/><small><em>| credits: File copy<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c7\">FIFA has made further progress in a move to help clubs deal directly with each other during transfers rather than employ agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">According to football\u2019s world governing body, agents took commissions averaging 28% of the 11,555 cross-border deals in 2012 and many clubs have complained about having to pay too much money to intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">FIFA\u2019s proposed Global Player Exchange (GPX) concept was discussed by its Club Football Committee this week and will, it says, \u201crevolutionise\u201d the transfer market by helping clubs sidestep agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">\u201cThese new optional services will have the same core aim of improving transparency,\u201d FIFA said in a statement. \u201cSubscribing clubs will be able to access market information and interact with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">\u201cExtensive stakeholder consultation has shown that most clubs have limited resources for accessing information on the professional player pool and often have to rely on intermediaries, thus increasing club costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"display-counter\" data-source=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/wp-content\/themes\/punch\/lib\/counter.php?postid=84541&amp;server=http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President, Sepp Blatter| credits: File copy FIFA has made further progress in a move to help clubs deal directly with each other during transfers rather than employ agents. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}