Interview with Miguel

In an interview with Miguel – a keen follower of Spanish youth football and Barcelona in particular – we discuss the Under 20 World Cup in Colombia, if the Spanish reserve system would work in England and the best prospects currently at Barcelona.
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Solidarity mechanism: The forgotten revenue stream.

July 2001. Four months after the far-reaching agreement with The European Commission over football’s transfer system, FIFA’s Executive Committee met in Buenos Aires to (amongst other things) vote on revised international transfer regulations.
One of the new articles within the regulations – article 21 – would be solidarity mechanism; An article which is unknown to a number of fans and even to some clubs, but yet is also controversial to those who feel the article should have a much broader jurisdiction than it currently does.

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