The issues of third-party ownership of transfer rights, club ownership regulations and rows over club versus country will be up for discussion when FIFA’s new Strategic Committee meets for the first time next week.
The new body will also discuss who should pay for players’ insurance while they are on international duty, as well as restrictions upon football being played at extreme altitude and on clubs who attempt to sell or transfer their league places to other clubs.
A press statement said the committee, chaired by UEFA President Michel Platini, would “consider the issue of third-party ownership of players as well as requirements relating to club ownership that endeavour to ensure more transparency in terms of stakeholdings, finances and corporate governance.”
FIFA’s Strategic Committee was formed to follow up on three task forces commissioned in 2005 to look at financial, political and competition matters.
