Transfer negotiations could change FOREVER as Fifa boss confirms fees could be decided by COMPUTERS not clubs
NEGOTIATIONS between clubs over a transfer fee for a player could soon be a thing of the past as Fifa threw the door open for COMPUTERS to determine the value instead.
Despite this latest transfer window barely even getting going, both January and summer signing sprees have become commonplace each year.
And there is always usually at least one long-and-protracted move that tends to dominate the headlines as two teams haggle over the fee.
However, Fifa president Gianni Infantino has now suggested that an algorithm could be used in the future to determine football transfer fees.
And that introduction would help to increase transparency in the $10billion market.
Infantino, speaking at Fifa’s annual law conference in Tokyo, said: “Now more than ever it is fundamental for us to talk about these and other topics.
“For example, to discuss about the possibility to use an algorithm to estimate the fair value of transfer fees in order to increase transparency in the transfer system and help the football stakeholders.”
It is unclear how such plans would get to be Fifa-approved and if they would be accepted by clubs, who would have their selling options limited by this introduction.
And it is also uncertain how the AI plan would comply with competition law in the European Union.
This comes after one of the driest January’s ever since the introduction of the transfer window system.
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Premier League clubs have been gripped by fear of Financial Fair Play measures and those Profitability and Sustainability Rules have proved to be a major buzzkill.
Tottenham’s £25m deal for Romanian star Radu Dragusin from Genoa was the biggest deal last month.
The three previous windows, including the summers of 2022 and 2023, were all record-breakers in English football.
But just £97million was spent in January – the lowest total in a non-Covid season for 12 years.
And that is a whole lot less than the record £815m outlay 12 months ago.
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