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FIFPro denounces transfer system to

In favor of the player’s agent, to the detriment of the training clubs – so is the opinion of the Spielergewerkschaft FIFPro’s transfer system is aligned. FIFPro wants to change and transfer fees in the future to abolish.

The Spielergewerkschaft FIFpro has a large imbalance on the transfer system in international football, denounced. “The transfer system rewards player’s agent is far more than football clubs, the talents bring forth. How can that be correct?”, said FIFpro Secretary General Theo van Seggelen. He relies on Figures from the FIFA Transferabgleichungssystem TMS. Accordingly, in the past year, only 20.7 million dollars (around 18.5 million euros) in compensation payments to trainees associations has been paid, what just 0.5 percent of the total Transferausgaben in the amount of 4.2 billion dollars. There were 228 million dollars ($203,7 million Euro) to Beraterhonoraren paid so well ten times the amount of the compensation.

2005 had the FIFA system was introduced, according to which all the clubs in the training of players had been involved, with a total of five percent of the transfer fee to participate. Thus, should the clubs be animated, in your Jugendabteilungen and may in Jugendinternate to invest. According to FIFpro knew but many clubs do not even that you at all of a claim indemnity. Also have many clubs do not have the legal means with your claim.

The Best Example Of Rot-Weiss Essen

Mesut Özil has served his home club Rot-Weiss Essen are already several times as a source of income

How lucrative this scheme can be demonstrated by the example of Rot-Weiss Essen: Because national football player Mesut Özil from 2000 to 2005, with the Essenes in the youth played, floss twice a sechststelliger amount in the Association Treasury. 2009 moved Özil for € 15 million from Werder Bremen to Real Madrid. RWE received 255.000 Euro. As Özil in the year of 2013 for around 50 million euros from Madrid to FC Arsenal went, flushed the again, around 800,000 Euro in the Association Treasury of the Viertligisten.

The FIFPro had already in the past year against the international transfer system complaint with the EU Commission inserted. The Union wants to do with their push for the abolition of Ablösezahlungen force. According to the Union, which claims to have 65,000 professionals represents, if the current transfer rules violate the European competition law and give advantage to the financially strong clubs.

asz/A.D. (dpa, sid)