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#52 : New Year & Many New Challenges for Football Agents - An International Transfer Window Shake-Up - FIFA May 'Feel the Heat' with More FFAR Controversies & Oversights.

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FIFA's interim RSTP framework shifts proof in inducement disputes onto the club making the allegation.

1. The Agents' Angle opens its first 2025 episode with FIFA's January regulation changes for football agents and transfer windows. 2. Jonathan Booker and Peter Pellilogos, the show's presenters, explain why their agent-law coverage matters to licensed agents, candidate agents, and clubs. 3. The episode asks what FIFA's December 2024 and January 2025 updates actually change for January transfers, licensing, and agent compliance. 4. The English FA bulletin repeats the requirement to use FA digital agent IDs and separately confirms authorization rules for representing minors. 5. The FA bulletin also points agents to FIFA's annual report on agents, FIFA CPD changes, and the interim RSTP updates linked to the Diarra ruling. 6. Peter says the ITC response timeline has been reduced from 7 days to 3 days from 1 January 2025. 7. He explains that the ITC process now aims to stop clubs blocking transfers because of contractual disputes between clubs or players. 8. The discussion then shifts to FIFA's interim RSTP framework, which Peter says deals with compensation after a breach of contract. 9. He adds that the framework uses a positive-interest approach and changes how joint-and-several liability works in inducement disputes. 10. Peter also reads FIFA's wider definition of just cause, which includes circumstances where good-faith continuation of the contract is no longer possible. 11. Jonathan and Peter say the new framework requires players, clubs, and agents to collaborate on facts and evidence when disputes arise. 12. They note that FIFPRO has publicly objected to the interim measures and wanted a collective-bargaining process instead. 13. Peter argues that FIFA needed an interim framework for the January window while a final version remains pending. 14. Jonathan says FIFA's consultation process has been criticized for years and that the revised FFAR draft appeared without clear notification to many agents. 15. He says he only became aware of the revised FFAR after Gianluca Medina from Legius Lab pointed it out, and FIFA emailed about it later on 14 January. 16. The hosts then focus on Circular 1919, which changes Article 6 and moves the FIFA football agent exam dates to 4 March, 17 April, and 18 June 2025. 17. They say FIFA appears to be shifting toward an online exam format, but the rules, monitoring, and language controls were still unclear at the time of recording. 18. Their tone is argumentative and procedural, with long back-and-forth commentary, legal analysis, and repeated criticism of FIFA's communication choices. 19. Agents, football lawyers, and compliance teams tracking FIFA regulation changes would find this episode useful. 20. Casual listeners wanting match talk or player gossip would probably skip it.

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