By Mike Keegan For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:31 GMT, 9 February 2019 | Updated: 01:09 GMT, 10 February 2019
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Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has renewed calls for the regulation of agents in the wake of the Emiliano Sala tragedy.
The 61–year-old, this week elected as a Fifa vice president, wants ‘transparent’ and ‘sensible’ guidelines around intermediaries.
Fifa chose to deregulate the industry in 2015 but in recent times the growing influence of agents and staggering rise in the sums paid to them have led to calls for action.
FA chairman Greg Clarke has renewed calls for the regulation of agents
The case of Sala, who perished when a plane carrying him from Nantes to new club Cardiff plummeted into the Channel, added further weight to those demands when involvement from a number of agents in a seemingly complex transfer emerged in the days after