FILE PHOTO: Football agent Kiko Rodriguez and associate Nick Cassidy of DRN Sports Management discuss potential transfer deals on transfer deadline day at their offices in Burnley , Britain, January 31, 2019. Picture taken January 31, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble
ZURICH (Reuters) - Worldwide spending on commissions to agents involved in the international transfers of players has reached a record high of $653.9 million (£509.66 million) this year, soccer's governing body FIFA said in a report published on Wednesday.
FIFA said that 80% of the total -- which was already 19.3% more than during the whole of 2018 -- was paid by clubs from Italy, England, Germany, Portugal, Spain and France combined.
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