Finance guru: Liverpool spending boom imminent amid ‘crazy’ £272m reveal
Fifa’s decision to impose a cap on agent fees could result in inflated transfer fees for Liverpool and their Premier League peers.
That is the view of finance expert Dr Dan Plumley, who spoke exclusively to Football Insider about Fifa’s recent changes to agent payments in football.
New Fifa regulations state that an agent representing a selling club can earn a maximum of 10 per cent of a transfer fee.
The new laws came into force last Monday (9 January), with the aim of implementing the capped agent fees fully by October.
Liverpool were among the biggest spenders in agent fees in the 2021-22 season, with their £22.1million spent on agents ranking fourth in the Premier League.
Overall, the top flight spent a collective £272million on agent fees.
Plumley is worried that the new regulations may negatively affect the market and result in agents inflating transfer fees to collect a bigger sum in their 10 per cent cut.
“In theory, the new regulations point towards costs coming down for clubs,” he told Football Insider.
“But clubs may just go out and spend more in the transfer market as a result.
“The other possibility, which hopefully has been considered, is that agents might inflate transfer fees so they get a larger cut with their 10 per cent.
“There are a couple of things which suggest clubs might spend more in the transfer market or that transfer values will increase, which is absolutely crazy considering where the market is already.
“The assumption is that it will bring costs down for clubs but it might not play out that way.“
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