Fifa report shows football agents earn £430.8m in latest male player transfer window

The report showed that the ratio of agent service fees to transfer fees during the mid-year registration window has grown from 6.1% to 9.9% in the last 10 years.

 

This year’s total male transfer window value of $5bn (£4.36bn) surpasses the previous year’s, increasing by 29.7%.

Most of the transfer business from the summer was conducted in English football, with the Premier League spending a record £1.9bn.

Further records were broken, with Manchester United’s £81.3m signing of Antony becoming the Premier League’s most expensive final day transfer ever.

Whilst English football’s deadline-day was the first of September, the transfer window for several European countries such as Turkey ends today.

Women’s football recorded 684 international transfers – an increase on last year’s figure of 14.4%. Meanwhile, the men’s game saw an increase of 16.2% with 9717 registered transfers.