Quote Originally Posted by stokearab View Post
The players club, ie the buyer. Not sure what sanctions if any would be applied to the player and the selling club, would have to look at the FIFA disciplinary results.
Surely our club wouldn't be stupid enough/naive enough to get this wrong? Or maybe there is a loophole I'm not aware of.

Art. 7, par. 4 of the FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries:

“Clubs shall ensure that payments to be made by one club to another club in connection with a transfer, such as transfer compensation, training compensation or solidarity contributions, are not paid to intermediaries and that the payment is not made by intermediaries. This includes, but is not limited to, owning any interest in any transfer compensation or future transfer value of a player. The assignment of claims is also prohibited.”
Cheers

I did try to read the document that you linked to but a) I'm at work and can't focus on it and b) I'm not that smart