The football representation market is undergoing its most aggressive bout of consolidation in decades. Investors and agency principals are stitching together regional boutiques to create globe spanning agencies with hundreds of clients and deep corporate pockets. For independent agents, the ground is shifting fast.

The promise of a European trial or a professional contract can blind even seasoned footballers.

FIFA has opened a formal investigation into a reported €1.2 million commission paid by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) to businessman Diego Fernandes for brokering Carlo Ancelotti’s hiring as Brazil head coach, demanding documentary evidence and an explanation of the payment structure

When the FIFA General Secretariat provisionally suspended British agent Jonathan Beckett’s licence on 16 September 2024 for allegedly working on an Aston Villa contract before he had a FIFA licence, it looked like a routine disciplinary move under the new Football Agent Regulations (FFAR). Beckett appealed, and on 15 May 2025 the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned the decision—exposing a gaping hole in FIFA’s enforcement powers.

When FIFA switched its Football Agent Exam to an all online, remotely proctored format for the first time on 18 June 2025, the aim was to make licensing cheaper and more uniform: candidates paid US $100 to answer 20 multiple choice questions in 60 minutes, with a 75 % pass mark and only one sitting per year from 2025 onward

Yesterday’s verdict from the DNCG that drops Olympique Lyonnais into Ligue 2 struck me with a jolt of déjà-vu. I’ve been a FIFA-licensed agent for fifteen years; I rode out Bastia’s collapse in 2017 and Bordeaux’s implosion in 2024, and I can tell you first-hand what happens next—for supporters, for players, and, above all, for the people who broker their careers.

Everton have replaced their traditional Director-of-Football (DoF) model with a deliberately “flatter” recruitment architecture that parcels the old DoF remit among four senior specialists working alongside manager David Moyes and new CEO Angus Kinnear. The club argues the structure is more resilient, more transparent and better aligned with modern data-driven decision-making. Yet it also changes the way agents must navigate Finch Farm, raising strategic questions for every agent who hopes to place talent there - or at any club that may copy the blueprint.

The FIFA agent exam is tomorrow. Agents FC wanted to offer some last-minute tips for smashing the Exam.

This saga will rumble on during the summer, In this video we take a look at past transfer saga's and how they played out.

Footballers may be paid millions to play the game they love—but when it comes to leaving a club, things can get as messy as a soap opera. Just ask Sporting CP president Frederico Varandas, who’s currently engaged in a public standoff with Viktor Gyökeres. The Swedish striker wants out. Varandas wants millions more. Fans? They're stuck in the middle, watching the chaos unfold like a Netflix drama they didn’t ask for but can’t stop watching. But Gyökeres isn’t the first player to throw his toys out the pram when a big move looms. Let’s take a jog down memory lane and revisit some of the most infamous “I’m-not-playing-until-you-sell-me” football fallouts. ‍