Not sure if this is the place to post this, but surely there has to be a better system than the current transfer system for football players around the world? The way I see it, is the most of the vast and ridiculous amounts of money that change hands for players just ends in constant circulation, with probably only a small percentage filtering its way down to lower league clubs to help their development. Worse, is that large sums from these fees get taken out of the industry altogether by way of agents, advisers, lawyers etc.
In the end, the net effect is the big clubs have to generate more and more revenue to feed the crazy transfer fee inflation - to do that match day costs are put up, tv packages are sold off to companies like Amazon and pay tv subscriptions are hiked every year. So is there an alternative? Radical but why not scrap transfer fees? Safeguard lower league clubs development revenue by giving them a guaranteed pay out from the top divisions. Players would still have employment contracts just like most workers and to stop any chaos you'd have a registration date for the season ahead to stop in-season movements. You could slightly enlarge playing squads to cover for injuries etc. and there would be no restrictions to sign out of contract players.
If a player then really wanted to leave a certain club, they could buy their contract out.
Main revenue sources for clubs would still be broadcasting, commercial and matchday revenues but without transfer budgets more money would be put into lower league and grass roots football - perhaps by way of a levy or fixed %, perhaps even to national bodies to distribute?
I'm sure there are holes in this but if there was a way to reduce the spend on players fees, cut down agents influence, stop the wastage of resources, create a more equitable distribution of funds to lower leagues, reduce match going costs etc then it could revolutionise the sport.