Football and agents are two words that unfortunately found to often associate with corruption, bribery, exploitation, especially in the business side of football. From the world governing body of football FIFA and its former president Sept Blatter facing money laundering allegations (BBC, 2015) from the FBI and now facing a ban of 8 years from all football related activities, to the former England manager Sam Allardyce negotiating a £400,000 deal to offer advice to a businessmen on how to ‘get around’ FA rules on player transfer which resulted to his sacking (Telegraph, 2016) to PSG chairman Nasser AL-Khelaifi and the world record transfer of the Neymar deal and now being accused of world cup bribe, all this due to the loosening of the new Intermediary FIFA regulations which has allow corruption to creep in. (Guardian, 2017).
In September 2006 the Telegraph did a BBC1 panorama programme on ‘Undercover: Football dirty little secrets’ it involved allegations on the rule breakings of licensing agent involving ‘bungs’ (bribery) of then managers Sam Allardyce of Bolton Wanderers , Harry Redknapp Portsmouth manager and others. Charles Collymore a football agent was secretly filmed and caught on camera saying “There’s managers out there who take bungs all day long. I would say to you comfortably there’s six to eight managers we could definitely approach and they’d be up for this no problem.”
10 years after the Telegraph first investigation, in September 2016 the Daily Telegraph ran an investigation named ‘Football for sale’ which revealed on their tabloid newspapers then England Manager Sam Allardyce. QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasslebank was also found requesting a fee of £55,00 to speak to an football agents along with others such as chairman of Leeds United football club Massimo Cellino requesting investment in return for money from player sales and Barnsley FC assistant head coach Tommy Wright accepting £5,000 payment from an agent to place a player on the team sheet.
What is Corruption? Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain (Transparency International, 2017). Corruption in football involves bribery, to persuade a club or a player to sign with the agent, to deliberate and concealed breaches of the rules so that a club, player or agent may achieve some financial or sporting other advantage (De Marco, 2017). Corruption in football in many cases operates in many levels but mostly involves around the lucrative transfer market of football players.
With Transfer market being the centre of corruption in football, in the 64th FIFA congress in June 2014 FIFA decided to abolish the football agent licensing and replace it with the new Intermediary FIFA Regulations that would come into place in April 2015. As they claimed only 25-30% of transfers over recent years have been carried out by licensed agents (FIFA, 2014). ‘This new regulations does not regulate access to the activity but provide a framework for tighter control and supervision of the transactions relating to transfer of football players in order to enhance transparency’ (FIFA, 2015).
The implications of this new regulation have seen the exam system being abolished and being replaced with a registration system by the different national associations. This has allowed anyone being able to take part in intermediaries’ activities as long as they show ‘impeccable reputation’. The AFA (Agent Football Association) claimed that this would ‘restore the world of agency to the wild west’ culture way of working where everyone will be fighting for the same players and encouraging the poaching of players. Before the FIFA abolished the Agent Licensing system they were 770 agents registered but in just 2 years since the new regulations that figure has double with now 1,700 known registered Intermediaries (TheFA, 2017).
This new regulations has given the power the different national association, with FIFA failing to manage the old licensing system they have passed the ‘bucket’ on to the national associations. FIFA simply didn’t have the resources and manpower to police this, nor did it necessarily want to get involved when parties fell out (Marcotti, 2015). By giving the responsibility on the football association on policing intermediary’s activities it has raised a conflict and confusion on the new regulations. ‘It is entirely predictable that there would be conflicts between national law and FIFA regulations as well as inconsistency in implementation and enforcement in different countries’ (John Mehrzad, 2014). This is occurrence with the remunerations of agents for transfer deal involving a player or club on which FIFA rules stating it should not exceed more than 3%(FIFA, 2015) where as The FA have placed a 5% remuneration fee(TheFA, 2015).
Also in the new regulations FIFA have imposed a non contract length on a player signed to an Intermediary with no maximum duration meaning a player can be tied to an agent unwillingly, this could raise a lot of court dispute between players and Intermediary’s. ‘The nature of the Player/Intermediary relationship is precisely the kind of relationship where regulatory measures are sensible to protect young or inexperienced players and avoid litigation’ (De Marco, 2015).
According to the theory of Bounded Rationality (Simon, 1957) decision making is bounded by three unavoidable constraints. This theoretical framework will help me explain, understand and predict what likely to happen regarding this new FIFA working with Intermediary regulation as well as challenge and extend the existing knowledge regarding the implications on this new FIFA working with Intermediary regulations. By using an in depth schema I will shine a light on my phenomenon, participant and settings, on what is known and what is yet to be found out regarding this new FIFA working with intermediary regulations.
The new FIFA working with intermediary regulations has been in place since April 2015, an as seen by the literature it has had an effect on the way Intermediaries activities are being undergone ever since the change. The conflict of interest between FIFA and the different football associations has allowed the rules to be open for interpretations. The effects of these changes are evident in higher tier off football. However, until now the implications of this new regulations has not been studied with a view on the focus of lower league players and their agents. In doing my research, there’s a lack of focus on the viewpoints of agents of conference footballers. The question below is seeking to find the answer and gain a better understanding on the implications of the new FIFA working with Intermediary on conference footballers.
What are the Implications of the New Intermediary FIFA regulations perceived by agents of conference footballers?
The National League better known has the Vanarama National Legaue due to its sponsor from Vanarama, and it’s where conference players are based. They are the 5th tier of the English football league and the national football league is broken down into 3 tiers, National league, and National league north and National league south. The Vanarama National League alone consists of 583 players registered through its 24 teams.
My focus will be on conference footballers playing in the Vanarama National League as figured showed an increase of fees paid to intermediary’s from which 1st October 2015 – 1st February 2016 was only £5,550 (TheFA, 2016) to figures from 2 February 2016 – 31st January 2017 being £271,065 (TheFA, 2017).
This clearly shows there’s an increasing attention on conference footballers by intermediary’s, with an increase of the transfer market going up the top teams in higher leagues are trying to find conference footballers as they come at a lower price. This opens doors for intermediary’s activities as these conference footballers will need intermediary to conduct the best transfer for them. Alongside the New Intermediary FIFA regulations this could result conference footballers being taken advantage of for the pursuit of professional football as research done by The British Sociological Association said “football agents are jeopardising players careers by going behind their backs” (Trueman, 2017).
By answering the question above it will shine a light on the implication these new regulations has had on conference footballers and agents representing them. It will also inform FIFA on it use of its new regulations and give them an insight on how it’s perceived in the lower leagues.
With the great interest in Vanarama national league through its sponsors and now football coverage from BT Sports it will give them an insight on new FIFA working with intermediary regulations has had on the league players and agents. Also raise awareness to the FA on the implications this new FIFA working with Intermediary regulations has had on the Vanarama football league and what they can do about it.
This will fill the gap in literature in where most of the implications of new FIFA working with Intermediary regulations only focus on premiership players or players playing in the top leagues. The implications conference footballers are facing are not being looked into, by doing this it could open more doors for research to be carried out.
This is a very importance research as with the new FIFA working with Intermediary regulations has open doors for anyone to be involve in football activities, we have seen now with president taking part in agent activities. With the $263 million world record signing of Neymar by PSG involving their president Nasser AL-Khelaffi part taking in the deal with his Qatar state funds (CNN, 2017). As well as an increase in players trying to get out of deals with their agents and the rise of super agents like Jorge Mendes and Mino Raiola, what is for sure is that agents are here to stay.
“There are other similar models by other agents working with a group of clubs and managers at lower level which again is bred by trust and ability rather than open a free market network to the ever increasing intermediaries after the de-regulation of FIFA agent regulations in 2015.” (ASghar,2016)
The literature review takes into account the understanding of the variety of literatures on the given topic. The different journals and articles taking into account the aspects related to the topic such that a better understanding of the topic of research is achieved. The different scenarios presented in the research show that the new regulations implemented in the FIFA are the result of the different discrepancies that could be encased upon in the laws and the norms of FIFA.
The governance of the Football has been under FIFA since its initiation in 1904 and since it has a monopolistic control over the aspects relating to the governance of football. According to Pielke (2013), the lack of transparency and accountability in the operations of FIFA has greatly been said to be the cause behind the different allegations of corruption that have been taking place in the organization. One of the major factors affecting the performance of the FIFA in the understanding of the sports in the overall situation affecting the control of FIFA in the different aspects of the player team relations in the situational analysis of the game. The different situations that affect the overall governance of the game is in the purview of the organization. The corruption in the game should be therefore under the jurisdiction of the organization and it should be held responsible and take the needed action for the mitigation of the issues that present themselves in the different scenarios. The code of ethics of the organization covers the different values of the aspects related to the game such as bribery, discrimination and opportunities among others. The organization is not responsible for the overall regulations of the intricacies of the gameplay but has the major role to play in the management of the game of Football. Being a 209 member organization it should be held accountable for its different actions such that the rules are followed. Football being an internationally acclaimed game and having a global fan following is affected by the large amount of money that is pumped in its operations globally. Since FIFA does not have to answer to any authority and is managed globally by a number of executive the corruption seeps in the system. One of the major issues that presents itself to the shift of the governance of FIFA under the laws of the Swiss government would again curb its operations as such an organization should not be answerable to a singular authority for its operations.
According to Poli and Rossi (2012), the system of agents was licensed in 1991 despite the practice of the agents being prevalent for a long time in the sport of football. The introduction of the rule led to the increase in the number of different agents in the game but most of the agents remained confined to the major European countries holding the 5 big leagues of football. It was seen in the research that 41% of the agents limited their area of operation to these big 5 countries and their leagues. The different leagues and their progress are under the control of the majority of the player pool around the world. This also shows the presence of a stiff competition in the different leagues for the different players to get their chance in the teams leading to the need of the alternative measures taken by the different players so that they perform in the different teams. The intermediaries too are not evenly distributed in the game as it is seen that one fifth of the agents control the rights of managing half of the active players. This creates a power divide problem and the different intermediaries face a strong issue in the management of the players. The different issues faced in the management of the players is the fact the majority of the players are playing in the smaller leagues. Another major issue leading to corruption is the fact that a number of different players in the game are still managed through unlicensed agents which makes it tough for the governing bodies to keep a tab on them or their modes of operation.
According to Papaloukas (2007), the FIFA is a commercial organization registered under the rule of Swiss government and controlling the management operation of the football playing entities of the different places around the world. This presents a major problems in the management bringing in the economic factors of the operations of the sport. The different processes relating to getting the license of operating as an agent in football is questioned by Mr. Piau. The different processes involved in licensing the agents have to go through the checks to be able to get their license of operations. It is seen that the different aspects relating to the licensing goes against the freedom of opportunity to be able to perform in a sport. This is a major issue to the licensing authorities to manage the economic rights of intervention between the agents and FIFA. The major problem presented in the case is that by making the rules for the licensing the agents and managing their operations FIFA are abusing their position of power. Another major problem in the licensing process is that the power shift that happens because of it as the different agents are in the position of abusing their power for the personal benefit and growth. The relatively independent position of FIFA as a governing body excludes it from being under the influence of the local laws and norms causing it to be in a position of power. The licensing of the agents by FIFA thereby makes the different scenarios presented to the court liable for discussion but cannot undermine the position of the different agents who still in their prime hold the position of commanding the communication between the players and the different teams. The final decision of the court pointed out though FIFA held a dominant position as a decision making body, it did not infringe any governmental law or rights.
According to Yilmaz, (2015), the thought of the single market direction of game depends on negative joining through the use of the EU law, especially inward market and rivalry rules, to wear the extent that it constitutes a financial action. The socio-social control of game, on the other, depends on positive mix and perceives the socio-social attributes of game in Europe and endeavors to adjust the EU`s showcase model of direction of game with one that advances its socio-social characteristics. This is 2 because of the way that the underlying invasion of the EU with the direction of players’ operators was from a solitary market viewpoint and both the Commission and the General Court affirmed that tenets of FIFA in representing the calling of players’ specialists were perfect with EU inside market and rivalry rules. At the point when FIFA took the choice to direct players’ specialists, it spoke to a test as operators sit outside the administration structure. They are not immediate individuals from FIFA and there is no common legally binding connection with FIFA. Players’ operators would not require an endorsement of any football representing body with a specific end goal to do their exercises which are fringe and lie outside the immediate obligation of those bodies. However, the exercises of the players’ specialists directly affect the individuals from overseeing bodies, which is clubs and players, which constrained FIFA to manage with the goal of ensuring the best possible working of rivalries and their picture according to general society. The choice of effect evaluation rather than the proposition of order on players’ operators caused a contention between the EU arrangement performing artists. Especially the Committee on Culture and Education was not especially satisfied with the choice of effect appraisal. The target of transforming the permitting framework was gone for beating those lacks with the administrative framework. FIFA’s Committee for Club Football built up a subcommittee with a command to build up the new framework and to attempt a protracted and broad meeting process with agents of part affiliations, confederations, clubs, FIFPro and expert football alliances to guarantee the contribution of all partners. The new administrative framework was likewise to be examined inside the structure of various working gatherings, including the Players’ Status Committee and the Legal Committee. The meeting sorted out by the Education and Culture DG, as the second.
As pointed out by Yilmaz (2018), understanding how the socio-cultural administrative model of game has advanced since late 2004 after the fuse of the game content into the last draft of the Treaty building up a Constitution requires the socio-social support coalition to be raised to date. In this regard, comprehend that the harmonious exact arrangement center convictions of the coalition advocates are unpredictable. Their observations about the essential reasons for the arrangement issue are not restricted to the financial meaning of game received and encouraged by the adversary single market coalition yet in addition incorporate worries about game’s prosperity and solid improvement in Europe. These preceptions are particularly identified with the uprightness of game and its supportable financial development that straightforwardly influence its welfare in Europe. For the EU approach performing artists, the perfect picture of game and its maintainable improvement are especially essential for its social part in European culture. 2015, have along these lines mirrored their instrumental inclinations that not just advance particular attributes of game including its socio-social qualities and self-rule, yet in addition secure the trustworthiness and budgetary prosperity of game for its sound improvement. In this association, the EU approach performing artists have been building up a socio-social situated arrangement system in light of a topical plan with need issues and related activities and yields. The organized issues of this system are seen to be particular issue parameters that influence the perfect picture of game and its money related wellbeing, therefore debilitate the approach center. Consequently, the strategy structure plans to create yields that objective these underlying drivers of the arrangement issue. In the mean time, partners speaking to various intrigue bunches are the contemporary on-screen characters that have risen inside the subsystem and grew close ties with the socio-social coalition through the span of a similar period. The partners are likewise differing including pan– European associations speaking to the enthusiasm of clubs, groups, competitors, supporters and monetary substances. The paper centers around those that work in European football and have been effectively engaged with the approach procedure concerning players’ operators. They are the European Club Association (ECA), as the delegate assemblage of European football clubs, the Association of European Professional Leagues (EPFL), as the gathering of European real alliances, The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionels (FIFPro), as the umbrella association for national players affiliations, and the European Football Agents Association (EFAA), as the agent of the national specialists’ relationship in Europe.
According to Edwards (2016), FIFA is the biggest and most imperative association planning football coordinates all around the globe. The outcomes of errors made by people of the association affect the whole football world. For example, Qatar was “chose” to have the World Cup of 2022. Cash has turned into an imperative part of the amusement as of late. Billions of euros course in the game. For instance, the English Premier League is one of the world’s wealthiest rivalries for instance. Consolidated player compensation were 1.7 billion dollars in 2013 alone. From one perspective, cash has acquired the diversion to another level terms of polished skill and promoting. Then again, the negative outcomes are presently getting to be evident. An expanding number of football experts play for the cash, as opposed to for the love of the diversion. Different authorities are still under scrutiny, and are anticipating a decision on their inclusion in the debasement. The current defilement embarrassments demonstrate that there is an absence of reconnaissance in the association. It appears that numerous authorities were pulled in to go out on a limb as the advantages were regarded bigger than the potential drawbacks. In the report, the ISFs work as the operators. The ISFs need to act as indicated by wishes of the principals; national games affiliations, competitors and national open experts. The national games affiliations are the ones who framed the ISFs. This empowers them to control ISFs through race strategies and revealing necessities (Geeraert 2015). ISFs have gotten the specialist from national relationship to make and keep up rules for the game, and to create universal rivalry. These affiliations subsequently have picked to appoint their obligations to the ISFs. On a fundamental level, national affiliations are entitled the above all principals to control ISFs. Office hypothesis offers a solid structure to help see how FIFA, and numerous different games associations, progressed toward becoming casualties of degenerate conduct in any case. It is in this way the reason for the suggestions that take after.
According to Poli and Rossi (2012), the colossal extent of specialists who deal with the vocations of the two players and chiefs brings up the issue on irreconcilable situations existing in the portrayal showcase. The significance of this issue is considerably more noteworthy considering that over 70% of our respondents likewise help clubs in purchasing, offering or exploring players. Every one of these figures mirror the presence of multifaceted circumstances with a ton of personal stakes calling for more straightforwardness. In spite of the fact that the calling of specialist just requires the acquisition of a permit without having a particular degree, our overview demonstrates that we manage an exceedingly taught populace. All in all, in excess of 66% of authorized operators hold a four year college education. Another 7% acquired much higher capabilities. We would then be able to set that this calling is progressively requiring a decent level of instruction and draws in individuals with a decent instructive foundation. The worldwide measurement of exchange markets suggests that operators must have the capacity to build up a comprehension of various legitimate and financial frameworks per nation. Pertinent illustrations are the successive incorporation of pay-execution motivating force conditions in player gets, the issue of players’ picture rights and the installment of players’ income charge, which all request operators numerous aptitudes and capacities. In any case, because of the legally binding complexities, the consultancies from outer experts are likewise progressively getting to be essential keeping in mind the end goal to secure the interests of their customers in the most ideal way. Shockingly, a much more noteworthy extent of authorized operators held up some an opportunity to work in the portrayal advertise after the acquisition of the permit. A conceivable translation is that numerous trying operators choose to pass the exam without having an unmistakable strategy for success on how solidly they can continue to bring home the bacon from this new movement. While frequently in singular business structures, specialists likewise need to team up with each other and with different experts in football to expand their working action. Our review demonstrates that half of the authorized specialists speak to players in the interest of associates, generally to acquaint their player customers with a particular national market. Brandishing chiefs and football directors are considered as the most essential experts for specialists to team up with. Despite the fact that it is generally simple to acquire the permit to authoritatively work, the presence of set up specialists overwhelming the market is a critical obstacle for newcomers. From this point of view, the endeavor of expanding the opposition in the portrayal showcase by encouraging the acquisition of a permit preconized by the European Commission and set in motion by FIFA with the coming into power of the new specialists’ directions in 2001 has plainly not been permitted to achieve the coveted objective.
The analysis methodology takes under consideration the various information collected and use them in the analysis methodologies which are further used for the correct analysis of the information and formulation of the conclusive results to the analysis (Choy 2014). It takes under consideration the various components of the analysis just like the data collection research philosophy and the outline of the research.
The Method outline shows the various analysis techniques that may be employed in the various situations within the time of the analysis. The research philosophy of the research is information supported by the knowledge gained from the analysis. The deductive approach are going to be employed in the analysis to deduce the results from the secondary sources in this analysis. The cultural and therefore the ethnic problems underlined during a range of researches by totally different sources can facilitate in understanding the present situation. The descriptive style can facilitate in explaining the used ideas and therefore the varied theories accustomed reach the definitive conclusion within the analysis. One of the major factors affecting the overall performance of the different situational scenarios affecting the job performance of the different agents in the society is the result of the factors that affect the local governmental and the international laws of the game regarding the transfer of the players and the role of managers in it. The corruption in the FIFA and the correlated issues regarding the resignation of Sep Blatter and the different scenarios regarding the situational issue relating to the role of the agents in the different football related corruption and how FIFA choose to mitigate them.
It is a tool of methodology that helps in understanding the vital divisions during an analysis and helps in the analysis of the subject. The research onion helps in the proper formatting of the research by the researcher. The research onion consists of six divisions specifically information techniques and procedures, time horizons, choices, strategies, approaches and philosophies.
Figure 1: Research onion
(Source: Saunders et al. 2009)
The analysis philosophy for this analysis are going to be interpretive. Using this philosophy the researcher does not take a general summary of the outcomes of the research beforehand, however bases it on the information deduced from the research (Padilla-DÃaz 2015). The ground data or the primary data helps in the formulation of the basic tenet of ideology in the research. During this analysis the knowledge from the varied sources of data the analysis results in the formulation of the ideas that facilitate the formulation of analysis and reaching an outcome. The interpretive philosophical approach will be ideal as it aids the research based on the thematic analysis of the different data. The philosophy will help in the analysis and understanding of the data collected in the thematic analysis.
The interpretive approach employed in this analysis is very ideal for the approaches during this analysis because it is that the social approach to the ideas in the sports and the legal issues that affect it. Since the study relies on legal studies at the side of the psychological approach positivism and realism has been discarded for this study (Reed and Alexander 2015). It’s to be thought-about that the utilization of secondary information within the analysis the informative approach can facilitate in understanding the analysis higher at the side of the formulation correct conclusion. One of the major factors that can be ascertained using this philosophy is the validity of the data and a farsighted view of the result of the norms on the lives of the footballers, agents and the game itself. One of the major factors affecting the overall performance of the individuals in the society is the different situational scenarios that are affected by the law.
The analysis approach for this analysis are going to be qualitative. Since this analysis relies on each social science and therefore the psychological factors the analysis approach cannot be restricted to one (Bell, 2014). Within the analysis the various aspects of the impact of the cultural identity of the youth are analysed. It provides a comprehensive approach of the psychological feature and therefore the psychological aspects of the sales and the importance of the agents in mediating the roles between the footballers and the teams in the game. The analysis further focusses on the different analysis which is dependent on the factors that are affected by the country based initiatives related to the agent norms of the game. The qualitative data analysis is taken in the research with the semi structured interview approach.
The analysis relies on the data collected from the interview data for the formulations of the various data collected from the interviews to be analysed against the secondary information for understanding the thought of the subject. Therefore, the deductive approach is that the best approach for the action of correct results of the study during this context. The overall analysis of the different situational scenarios on the research will be affected by a number of different factors which takes into account a number of perspectives which will affect the football agents and their daily interactive patterns. The data collected in the research helps in understanding the condition of the different Football agents and study their overall performance in the scenarios they face.
The analysis style was illustrated by Saunders et al. (2009) maybe the frame work of the analysis pattern. Throughout the information assortment, a definitive approach is chosen for a much better understanding of the analysis. The research designs are of 3 sorts specifically exploratory, explanatory and descriptive. Exploratory design helps in understanding the various types of ideas needed for the research (Hancock and Algozzine 2016). The descriptive research collects details of the occurrence of the events with proper description and detail of the topic.
In this research the design of the study is the explanatory design which takes into account the explanatory design which focusses on the cause and effect of the research, which helps in understanding in this topic that is based on legal changes and its effects on the work patterns of agents in this research. The explanatory design will be the best suited for the research as it will take into account the different perspectives relating to the sociocultural scenarios in the study. The overall implication of the decision on the game can be pointed out in the research. Moreover it will also help in the better exploration of the different contexts related to the research while doing thematic analysis as it has a wider exploration area which helps the research.
There are two types of data collecting methods, primary and secondary. In primary data collection, first-hand data are collected from the participants of the research. In case of secondary data, second had data from online or printed materials are collected. In this research study, the researcher will use a mixed method that is both primary and secondary data will be collected.
The Secondary data approach is based on the data collection from the secondary sources, that is, the different researches and the statistics of the different available resources related to the chosen topic. In this research data is used from a number of sources such as, government data, peer reviewed journals and different research works related to the topic (Neuman and Robson 2014).
The Primary data is collected from three seasoned Football agents who have been in the profession before and after the amendment of the new regulation. To analyses the effect of the new FIFA regulations the interview of agents are studied in the light of the modern scenario and the context for better understanding of the effect of regulation on their lives.
The data collected in the interview of the three agents will be analysed taking into account the different parameters under the thematic analysis. This will help in the better understanding of the answers and their relation to the study. The different social factors that are affected by the FIFA decisions and affect the decisions made by FIFA help in the analysis and the scrutiny of the different factors that relate to the situational scenarios if decision making.
Population and sample of a research is defined by the total population that is affected by the research and outcomes of it (Hewson and Stewart 2016). In this research the sample population is the number of agents affected by the overall regulation changes in FIFA. There are two types of data collecting methods, primary and secondary. In case of secondary data, second had data from online or printed materials are collected. In this research study, the researcher will use a mixed method that is both primary and secondary data will be collected. The population sample will therefore consist of the different licensed agents and the different players who are affected by the research.
During the research, the researcher needs to follow a definite code of ethics while conducting the research so that the outcomes are unbiased and presented properly. The different ethical consideration in analysing the information about different agents how the work of agents differ from player to player, hindrances faced by them and other such information (Bryman 2015). The ethical considerations that pose a problem to the researcher are:
The research limitations take in to account the avoidable and the non avoidable restrictions in the research. The limitations in research are natural as with the limited resources one cannot do a complete research covering all topics (Kratochwill and Levin 2015). The limitations of the research include:
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The role of the agents as identified by has increased manifold in the last 20 years in context to the involvement of the managers in the overall understanding of the different social situations. One of the important aspects that has been highlighted is the change in the dynamics of the relations between the different players and the clubs in the country. The sheer rise in the number of agents has led to the creeping in of the bribery and other such issues among the different people in the society. The different situational scenarios affecting the overall growth and the development of the individuals in to the seasoned footballers. The role of the agents in the overall development of the players cannot be overlooked which makes it extremely important for the regulations to play a role in the overall understanding of the different aspects of the role of the agent in the development of a player. The new regulation in this context have also brought about a number of different issues relating to the fact that the different people in the business. It is a major concern that the license badges were sold and anyone can own one without understanding the intricacies of the game. This not only harms the player but the clubs and the games as a whole. An agent should understand that a good launch for a novice player should be a place where he can perform according to their proficiencies and fit in the team plan rather than getting the most lucrative deal.
The interview also focusses on the fact that the different relations between the players and the teams in the paradigm of the game. One of the important aspects of the development of the game in the different situations aspects is in the purview of the situations faced by the different players and the agents. It is also pointed out in the interview that the agents industry has changed a great deal in the long time and in the modern context the rise of the number of agents in the environment of the game has changed in the dynamics of the relationship between the players. The challenges in the earlier dynamics in the game is affected by a number of factors such as the competition has increased manifold in the society. The examination for the person to become agents is quite tough and the people who qualify to become the agents are quite tough. The role of the legislation of becoming the agents in the society is in the light of the different situational facts that are faced by the different employees. The introduction of the new processes that affect the overall performance of the agents as they have to compete with the business men instead of the people who are passionate about the Football. The licensing of the agents made easy leads to a number of issues among the different agents that have come in the present scenario which has led to an issue in the managing the players and the agents leading to a rise in the corruption. The change of the laws have brought about a larger number of people in the industry to be incorporated in the country. This brings about a misunderstanding between the players and the agents which affects the performance of the players and the reputation of the agents. The lack of the information among the players also leads to a number of issues being faced by the different employees. One of the major issues is the lack of the knowledge among the players and the agents which leads to a number of understanding issues between the players and the clubs. The lack in the communication between the player and the knowledge of the intricate detail among the new agents is affecting the game making it more and more money oriented so the agents are taking to illegitimate ways to earn favors for their clients not focusing on the fact that it is viable for its growth or not. One of the important aspects of the different agent player relationship is the fact that they may be affected by the different situational aspects that is affected by the norms of the different clubs that the players are involved in. the different situational scenarios such that they may be affected by the agent club relationship.
The role of the agents in the modern context has changed the dynamics of the relationship between the player’s teams and the different agents who represent the players. The lack of the knowledge of the legislations has very adversely affected the overall roles of the players in the teams and their performances and harmed the reputation of the game when the different allegations of the bribery and the corruption in the game were made. One of the important aspects relating to the recruiting of the agents and the experiences of the agents that are not aware of the intricacies of the game and do not understand the approach of the industry.
The changes in the role of the agents and the norms of easing the process of becoming intermediaries brings in one of the issues relating to the overall development of the game. By deserting the present permitting framework, the strategy to end up a delegate has turned out to be significantly less difficult than previously. Besides, lawful people will have the capacity to go about as mediators. Along these lines, the different players that are under the different agents may or may not understand the implications of their discussion. In any case, the New Regulations raise a few issues for specialists, players and clubs. It is the duty of players and clubs to guarantee that middle people sign the Declaration and portrayal contract. Nonetheless, the experiences and the overall interactions between the player agents and the clubs are subject to a number of different laws which affects their overall interactions and performance in the society. The relations of the players with the teams is forged by their relative understanding and prowess in the game and the role of the agents in getting a number of players in the game.
The new regulation of the intermediaries will affect the overall development of the players as the agents play an important role in the overall understanding of the different issues related to the agent player relations. One of the most important aspect relating to the overall correlation between the players and the teams is the fact that they are affected by a number of factors that have an effect on the overall career of the players and their market value.
One of the major issues that prevails in the current condition is the fact that a single coach takes a number of different situations such as a single agent has more players under his supervision than he can address. One of the important factors affecting the overall development of the organizations is the fact that they may affect the overall development of the different sectors in the organization. The agent who cannot focus on all their players leads them to focus on a number of different factor such as the abilities and the needs of the different players in his clientele. The commercialization of the laws under the new intermediary laws has made the idea more of a business based rather than working towards the overall development of the game.
The secondary data analysis focusses on the development of the study based on the secondary data collected in the literature review.
FIFA despite not being a whole and sole football governing body around the world it has a number of powers to perform the different set of actions amongst themselves. One of the important issues that is highlighted about FIFA since the allegations of the different bribing and corruption issues that have come up in the FIFA governance. The sheer lack of accountability and the transparency in the governance of the FIFA is an important issue that must be highlighted. The control and the jurisdiction of FIFA in the operations of the game globally affects the implementation of the different policies in the game. FIFA being a self-governed body has o accountability towards any nation or organization plying its operations. This helps in the establishment of the fact that the different aspects of the overall governance should be maange3s as such that the different issue relating to the development of the players can be controls and the role of the agents can be countered.
The role of the agents have also been studied in the light of the different issues that have been highlighted in the study as the effect of the role of the agents s in the taking over of the player and the club relationships in the game. The concentration of the a large number of league in the European subcontinent has led to the increase in the number of people in relation to the topics of the aspects related to the overall development of the game in the society. The power divide has ed to a number of discrepancies in the overall management of the game whicb along with the lack of FIFA’s accountability makes it tough for a person to comprehend the different aspects of the game. One of the important role of the intermediaries are to be the communication channels between the players and the clubs and the lack of understanding of the legislations among the young players often leads to issues in the understanding the different aspects of the legislations regarding the player transfer and signings in the game. The role of the agents is highlighted due to the different negative issues that had been highlighted in the game like the agents bribing te coaches of the different teams to get their players a place in the team and the signing. This has led to a great power shift and corruption in the game leading to number of issues such as the players not getting fair chance based om their competencies and the overall commercialization of the game which led to the new laws. The increase in the number of unsilenced agents is another issues that have been brought forward by Poli and Rossi (2012), which has increased the corruption in the game manifold. The game affects the overall development of the players along with the belief and the faith of the people in the game which is not conducive for the development of the game in society.
The registering of the FIFA under the regulation under Swiss governments safe guards it in a number of different issues. The control and the management of FIFA under these regulations has led to a number of different issues that have to be mitigated for a proper understanding of the issues relating to the rise in the number of unlicensed agents who affect the overall performance of the different clubs. The different aspects relating to the development of the game is to be affected by the situational scenarios along with the relative competition among the different agenst tio get their clients in the clubs. The discretion of the legislative laws in the EU regarding the different players in the end the relationship between the players and the teams they play is in the purview of the legislations that controls them. The role of the FIFA as the whole and sole of the bodies in making these decisions has brought to light the different situational scenarios that are beyond the supervision and jurisdiction of EU.
The EU has been trying to gain control over the role of the different agents in the understanding and ascertaining the role of the agents in the gameplay and understanding of the game. The different aspects of the game in the light of these situational scenarios and the development of newer and better strategies to counter the corruption hassled to the increase in the number of laws to control the role of the agents in the different game based relationships.
The primary and the secondary researches in relations to the different situations show that the game has developed. The linking will understand the role of the new regulations on the overall development of the newer and better strategies in the game of football. The role of the agents has changed a great deal in the last few years as the different agents have had a drastic change in their roles in the overall development of the game. One of the important aspects of the game is the fact that the number of agents have increased manifold in the last few years and of all things this has led to rampant increase in the corruptions as the different agent’s works towards establishing themselves in the paradigm of the game. The increase in the number of the unlicensed agents has led to increase in the corruption to counter which the new regulations have been laid by FIFA. The different issues that have been emphasized are to be mitigated in the overall development of the different agent related laws in the game. The new legislations which led to the formation of the role of the intermediaries in an attempt to control the corruption will help in the development of the different roles of the agents and their modes of operations putting them in the purview if the law. The different roles in the organization that helps in the growth of the new roles in the game will have an overall developmental effect on the different participations of the people in the game. The different aspects that need to be focused on in the light of the development and cleansing of the game needs to focus on the shift in the power dynamics in the game.
The intermediaries will act as the communicators between the players and the clubs and they will not have a strong say in the participation of the player. It has also been emphasized that the poaching of the players by the agents have also led to the increase in the corruption in the games. The overall performance and the management of the players in affected by the getting of license by the different agents who are of limited knowledge in the game and cannot comprehend it or the role of player in team and individual development. The relative development of the game in this context is in the purview of the different issues that have been highlighted in the commercialization of the game in the recent times. The overall development of the different scenarios in which the different members of the game have played a role as an important member in the development of the sociocultural aspects which aids its cleansing.
The issues that arise in the regulation need to be overcome using a number of different practices which helps in the overall interaction and planning of the research so that they can align with the ideals in the society such that they can overall manage the relations between the players and the agents. One of the major ways to counter the different problems in this case in the fact that the people can improve the overall relation between the intermediaries clubs and players. Moreover the intermediaries should have a set of norms to follow and the maximum number of players they can represent so that the players get proper attention.
Conclusion:
Thus it can be seen in this analysis that the different aspects regarding the development of the new regulations of FIFA is in the light of the new Intermediary regulations. The new regulations have come in the wake of the rising issues of the corruption that have been highlighted in the recent times given the different situation I the development of the game. The important issues highlighted in the study is the fact that the corruption was on the rise due to the lack of the infrastructure overseeing the interactions between the players and the clubs in the supervision of the different agents was very flawed. The rise in the number of the different agents has led to the competition in the market which causes a relative corruption to mitigate the competition rampant in the market. One of the important issues that have been highlighted in the context is the fact that the players usually do not have the understanding of the operations of the different legal aspects that have to be paid heed to during the overall formulation of the different contracts between the players and their teams. The role of the agents in the different teams in the light of the different situational aspects of the development of the different ways to counter the issues relating to the overall inculcation of better strategies in the game.
The role of the intermediaries or the agents have changed through time and has moulded itself in the light of the different situational scenarios that have come up given the different situations that have to be focussed on in the understanding the role of FIFA and its relative Autonomous structure I aiding the rise in the overall scenario of the the agents playing an important role in the player club relations in the game. One of the important aspects that has led to the development of the methods and the strategies of the of understanding and addressing the issue is in the light of the corruption pointed out in the different times due to the agents playing an important role in it. The role of the coaches in the game have been highly questionable in the advocating of the players in the different platforms. The lack of the knowledge among then unlicensed agents and the young players has helped the growth of the corruption in the game which is leading to hampering of its reputation on the global platform. The various roles of the different agents varies in the lives of the players depending on their importance in the relative understanding of the game.
The research in this context explores the understanding and the responses of the different agents in the light of the new laws of FIFA. Most of the agents who are licenced and work legally in this field of operations are of the opinion that the new regulations affect the overall performance of the agents in the ascertaining the importance of the different roles in the player agent relationship. It has also been pointed out that the fame of the game and the reputation is being adversely affected by the overall development of the new methods of the aiding the development of the different players in the game. The different researches also show that the lack of accountability on the different aspects of the development of the game in the light of the player and game relationship. The different agents are of the opinion that the different agents should be centralized and the different contact methods of the agents and the teams should have more transparency in order to have a proper development of the understanding in the different contexts. The limiting of the number of the players that each coach can have under their supervision will help in the development of the different methods to scrutinise the different transaction of the players in the different teams. The licensing of the agents should also be centralized to increase the poaching of the different player among the agents and the agents should not operate without the licences which makes them untraceable. The commercialization and the inclusion of the agents who are not passionate about the game or take it as a profession of economic gain adversely affect the development of the game.
The various recommendations that can be followed to improve the condition of the role of agents in the jurisdiction of FIFA are:
The research focuses on the development of the different aspects that have to be heeded on in the overall development of the t legislations affecting the roles of the agents. The various aspects that can be researched on further include the role of agents in the carrer development and the performance distribution of different players.
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