FIFA seeks a revolution in the transfer system

In an article published by 'Le Parisian' on Sunday, Infantino said: ''Football cannot be allowed to have player transactions that cast doubt and raise suspicion around the world.''

For him, the problem of credibility in football is not so much that the signings or the spending on players seems exorbitant, but the issue is with ''the fragility of the system that controls these transfers.''

He warned that: ''The consequences are harmful including to the image of football, especially when it's reputation is associated with any dubious agreements in signing players outside the regulatory parameters.''

The FIFA president opted to establish ''a limit on the number of players that a club is authorised to keep on their payroll and, more importantly '', regulations on how money is spent on transfers.

Infantino's plan is not necessarily to create an individual salary cap for players, nor for the amount for a transfer, but rather ''a limit to what a club can commit to spending.''

In his eyes, the only way to guarantee a fair system is that the clubs that train a player are rewarded accordingly and that, more generally, teams and footballers are protected so that "money does not end up spoiling everything".

In Infantino's own words, the transfer system needs "a complete revolution" in which the confederations, the associations, the leagues, the players' unions, the clubs, but also the governments and the international political entities are involved.

The establishment of "clear and strict rules" to make transfers more transparent was brought up in the second round of FIFA's executive summits last March in Lima, and continue to be the subject of debate within FIFA.