A Senegalese lawyer has challenged African governments to come up with regulations aimed at imposing taxes on player transfer.

Moustapha Camara stated this on Monday during the launch of his latest book titled “Le Contentieux du Transfert des Joueurs” that took place at the National Press Association (ANPS) offices located in Dakar.

His work speaks mainly on the issue regarding  local players transfers to European clubs and proposes to the Senegalese administration to be a leading example to other nations in the continent in placing transfer tax so as to develop clubs in their countries.

“The clubs training players in Africa are disadvantaged. Mostly football academies and football clubs in the continent receive little on transfer kitty compared to their counterparts in Europe,” said Camara.

Camara further says, citing an example, that when a player trained in Senegal signs for a big club overseas after going through another in Europe- that foreign club gets more cash than local African club that raised the player which is not supposed to be the case if the governments embrace his new idea.

Usually under FIFA regulations if a player moves for a transfer fee prior to the expiry of his contract, five per cent of that amount is deducted to be distributed amongst the teams who contributed to his development.

Sides who trained a player between the ages of 12 and 23 are entitled to a percentage outlined by FIFA in what is known as the solidarity contribution.

Separate from the solidarity mechanism, training compensation is also payable to a player’s former club every time he moves to another team until the end of the season in which his 23rd birthday falls.

The amounts due in both training compensation and solidarity payments are set figures and usually it is down to the appropriate FAs to determine how the money should be split.