FiFPro: "The absurdity of the transfer system can no longer escape anyone" (Philippe Piat)

"Since he can count on the UNFP (French Players' Union), Neymar (who left FC Barcelona to join the Paris Saint-Germain on 03/08/2017) will be able to rely on FIFPro if he wishes. What people need to understand, including within the football ecosystem, is that this opportunity is good, in the case of the new Parisian player, to denounce again the transfer system, whose absurdity can no longer escape anyone," said Philippe Piat, president of FIFPro and co-president of the UNFP, on 24/08/2017.

"But the funniest thing in history, if I can put it that way, is that it is those who take advantage of this system - after having used the transfer system to their own profit with the complicity of FIFA - are those who today want to denounce the system. The leaders of FC Barcelona, in this matter, react like all their colleagues as soon as they are caught in their own game. And those who are historically complicit in the game are now even misled!," said the French president of the International Football Players' Union, who is fighting this transfer system via a complaint filed by FIFPro with…