FIFA Set To Make Major Change To January Transfer Window

Everyone loves a transfer window. And by that I mean pretty much no one actually likes a transfer window. Now FIFA are hoping to change what happens inside them with some new rules.

I couldn't be more thankful for the World Cup. Firstly because I love football and the World Cup and they'll be four games a day at some points but secondly because there's other news than just a whole lot of transfer rumours.

Transfer windows are awkward things that managers and players don't really like but they seem often like a necessary evil with only Jim White actually wanting them to exist.

The Premier League dislikes the transfer window so much that the league decided to bring the closing date of it forward with no transfers allowed once the season starts this year.

Now FIFA are going to get in on the business of changing what happens in the transfer window.

According to the Evening Standard the world football governing body is looking to change the window including introducing a maximum of four transfers in January, moving August's window to an early close but allowing two changes for serious injuries and criminal checks to be introduced.

The proposals for the plans, which are yet to be agreed on, were put forward at a meeting of the Association of Football Agents on Wednesday in Barnet.

At the meeting were representatives from Fifa, Uefa, the FA and the Professional Footballers' Association and proposals also included all transfers going through Fifa's Transfer Matching System to cut down on the risk of money laundering.

An agent cap will not be added and agents will continue to be allowed to represent a player and club in the same deal, and therefor get paid twice, but a code of conduct will be introduced.

Infantino and FIFA are hoping to reduce the amount of money that disappears out of the game in illegal transitions with 80% of financial deals in transfers going through agents.

The new proposals would see the rest of Europe also end their transfer window at the new early time as the Premier League clubs but teams would be able to sign two players until the end of August if they suffered major injuries.

The transfer window could be about to change in a big way.

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Topics: Football News, FIFA, Transfer news, World Cup, Gianni Infantino

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