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#44 : Agents Clash Over Transfer Dealings, FIFA Tribunal Report, Return of 'a' FIFA Agent Directory and Club Attempts to Dismiss Agent Lawsuit

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Bruno Satin says Rabiot needed 'a professional' agent and calls the Marseille deal a poor outcome.

1. The Agents Angle #44 focuses on transfer disputes, FIFA tribunal data, and the reappearance of a FIFA agent directory. 2. Jonathan Booker and Peter Paliologos host the show, and both are football agents who interpret regulations, disputes, and market practice from inside the industry. 3. The episode asks what rights players, agents, clubs, and FIFA actually have when transfers break down or regulations are suspended. 4. Nicolas Zaleski and Roma anchor the first transfer story, with the hosts reading his agency's statement that a player has a 'noble right' to decide whether a transfer is finalized. 5. The Zaleski discussion names Galatasaray, Roma, and the claim that media reports created 'creative reconstructions' that did not reflect reality. 6. The hosts broaden that point into player autonomy, arguing that clubs and some agents treat players 'like commodities' while players still have a right to change their minds. 7. They then move to FIFA rules, naming Article 17, the Webster ruling, the Bosman ruling, protected periods, and the Diarra case due on October 4. 8. Peter Paliologos explains that Article 17 prohibits unilateral contract termination without just cause and that protected periods create sporting sanctions for breaches. 9. The episode also cites long contracts as a live issue, including Nicolas Jackson's Chelsea deal through June 2033 and Moïses Caicedo's eight-year arrangement in England. 10. The hosts connect those longer contracts to national law and to amortization and financial regulation in the Premier League. 11. A separate agent-on-agent dispute follows, when Bruno Satin criticizes Adrian Rabiot's representation after Rabiot joined Marseille on a two-year deal. 12. Satin is quoted on RMC Sport saying Rabiot needed 'a professional' and that the Marseille outcome reflected poor advice from his mother-agent. 13. Jonathan Booker pushes back on anonymous criticism and says the most important missing fact is whether the player himself wanted that deal. 14. The discussion then turns to Henry Isaac, who criticized the handling of Victor Osimhen's transfer and said an agent's priority is to 'protect them at all costs.' 15. The hosts treat those comments as part of a wider trend in which agents publicly judge each other's work without seeing the full background. 16. FIFA's Football Tribunal Report for 2023 and 2024 becomes the next focus, with Peter Paliologos noting that the Agents Tribunal remains suspended because the FFAR are temporarily suspended. 17. The report is described as showing roughly a 20% increase in employment-related disputes and faster handling by the Dispute Resolution Chamber and Play Status Committee. 18. The episode ends with the third-party FIFA football agent directory, which the hosts say already helped identify unlicensed people in the Australian market and still needs verification. 19. The tone is regulatory, argumentative, and practice-led, with Booker and Paliologos using examples and rule references rather than interview prompts. 20. Listeners who follow football agency law, transfer disputes, and FIFA regulation will find this useful, while casual fans seeking match analysis may skip it.

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