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FIFA faces 'cartel' claims over plans to regulate football players' agents

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
  • 17 Oct 2022 15:01
  • 17 Oct 2022 15:01
A plan by football's world governing body to regulate player agents has prompted threats of legal action from a group of agents who say the initiative amounts to a “cartel” and breaches EU, UK and US competition laws, MLex has learned.
Supporters of FIFA's plan could face financial sanctions and

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Andrew Boyce

Correspondent


Andrew is a reporter covering merger reviews and competition policy for MLex in Brussels. He joined MLex in 2015 and holds a degree and a master’s degree in history from the University of Liverpool.

Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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