IT IS understood that the FFA will conduct a post-season review of its player transfer system on the back of Anthony Caceres’s controversial loan move to Melbourne City.

Caceres was officially unveiled as a Melbourne City player on Tuesday, just days after Premier League giants and fellow CFG-owned club Manchester City signed the midfielder from Central Coast.

The move has drawn the ire of rival A-League clubs, with Sydney FC CEO Tony Pignata taking to Twitter to label the transfer “wrong” and to call for a change to the A-League’s transfer system.

“The loaning of Caceres to City is wrong,” Pignata said. “How can (the) FFA allow this? There are no transfers between A-League clubs yet it seems you can bypass.”

Pignata added: “What City have done is totally within the rules. I just think that the current FFA rules need to be looked at.”

Manchester City’s $300,000 acquisition of Caceres and subsequent loan to Melbourne City circumvents rule 10.5 (c) of the FFA’s National Registration Regulations, which prevents transfer fees from being requested, offered or paid between national league clubs.

Therefore, as Caceres was under contract at Central Coast, Melbourne City would not have been able to sign the player without Manchester City’s intervention unless the Mariners released him.

But, while the FFA will not change its transfer structure mid-season, Caceres’s move will form part of a holistic post-season review into the A-League’s transfer and registration system.