30 September 2010-

The Transfer Matching System (TMS) developed by FIFA to regulate international transfers will take effect

from tomorrow (October 1).

 The system will be mandatory with both clubs involved in a player transfer

needing to provide verified details of payments and parties involved. Deals will be rigidly timed out to ensure

that transfer window deadlines are met. "TMS is a relatively simple online system but it will have a

tremendous impact on the international transfer of players," claimed FIFA president Sepp Blatter. "Thanks to

TMS, football's authorities have more details available on each and every transfer. The most important thing

is that it increases the transparency of individual transactions and helps us to tackle issues such as the fight against money laundering and the protection of minors in transfers." TMS has been trialed in 18 countries since February 2008 in 18 countries with the system now rolled out to all FIFA’s members and the 3,633 clubs.

More than 30 details on each transfer must be entered in TMS, including the player, club details, all

payments including the amount, timing and bank details, and solidarity payments to previous clubs. The new system replaces a paper-based system but only covers international transfers. The two clubs involved must enter the same information in TMS, otherwise the transfer will be blocked and the member associations will not issue the International Transfer Certificate (ITC). TMS general manager Mark Goddard said: "It's no longer a good idea to play a game of chicken in the negotiations for transfers. Over the last two-and-half years we have seen examples of big clubs like Real Madrid who last year came out very early in the transfer market and did their business in the first two weeks of the window.

They avoided leaving it until the last minute as they didn't want to risk playing a game of chicken with a computer system which would say time has run out."

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