World football’s governing body FIFA have announced that they will clamp down on international transfers by monitoring players and clubs rather than unlicensed agents.

Marco Villiger, FIFA's head of legal affairs, said that only 25 to 30 percent of international transfers were concluded through licensed agents.

Villiger told Reuters: "We will try to switch from regulating individuals who are not members of FIFA and monitor more the acts of our direct members, which are the players and clubs. Reality has developed in a completely different situation to the regulations, so we have decided to launch a new approach rather than keep correcting the system. We will go to the players and the clubs and remind them of the responsibilities they have whenever they get in contact with intermediaries. We will issue a set of requirements they have to meet whenever they use an intermediary, who could be a lawyer, a family member or other person who we would endorse."

A FIFA task force, made up of three FIFA members and three members from the International Players' Union FIFpro has produced a first draft of the new system and will present a final version at May's FIFA Congress.

Villiger added: "We will establish what papers and documents are to be signed, who pays, how to regulate conflict of interests, where the fee has to be paid and on what terms. Whenever we detect that someone has not adhered to the regulations we will then impose sanctions and it is clear that these sanctions must be harsh."

FIFA are also set to introduce a Transfer Matching System where transfers will only be authorised once both the buying and selling clubs had separately entered data into a Web-based system, including the players' name, the fee, the agent and how much commission had been paid.

Villiger said of the Transfer Matching System: "The transfer matching system will allow us to track the money flow from one club to another or from one club to an agent. What it will not be able to do and what is also not the task of FIFA in general, is to detect money laundering because this is clearly the job of the state authorities."