Agents fees

[Gingeletiss]

By all accounts, there was an increase in clubs paying agents fees last season, an increase of £3.9m. Would it surprise you, that Saints were the biggest spenders in league 1 at over 400k, Notts County in league 2, and Middlesbourgh in the Championship.

 

Personally, I think it is a rip off, but that said, I wish I were an agent;)

[Noodles34]

no, it wouldn't surprise me, as much as it wouldn't surprise me if you added Man City as the EPL's biggest spender.

 

How do you quantify your rip off comment?

[fish fingers]

By all accounts, there was an increase in clubs paying agents fees last season, an increase of £3.9m. Would it surprise you, that Saints were the biggest spenders in league 1 at over 400k, Notts County in league 2, and Middlesbourgh in the Championship.

 

Personally, I think it is a rip off, but that said, I wish I were an agent;)

 

Yes it would considering Norwich spent the most.

[SKATE_HATE]

How did you work that out?

[eharty9]

Ssn

[Scudamore]

Football agents = pond scum

[Bucks Saint]

no, it wouldn't surprise me, as much as it wouldn't surprise me if you added Man City as the EPL's biggest spender.

 

How do you quantify your rip off comment?

 

Agents dont do much, in return for lots of cash, maybe?

 

If you are a League one player at, say, Bristol Rovers and hear that Saints want to sign you and double your wages and build a promotion case around you, how hard does the agent have to work to secure you that deal? QED

[Flyer]

no, it wouldn't surprise me, as much as it wouldn't surprise me if you added Man City as the EPL's biggest spender.

 

How do you quantify your rip off comment?

 

Clubs play the players agent to negotiate a deal, surely the players agent is employed by the player so he should take a cut of whatever the player gets.

 

Agents should be banned from the sport or the FA should appoint them and they would be neutral

[Bucks Saint]

Clubs play the players agent to negotiate a deal, surely the players agent is employed by the player so he should take a cut of whatever the player gets.

 

Agents should be banned from the sport or the FA should appoint them and they would be neutral

 

Agreed but players are not used to clubs standing up to their demands, especially when the clubs want to sign them. Its not that many years ago, when Leeds were in their spending heyday, that Robbie Fowler moved to Man City. Leeds, as well as paying half his wages after he moved, paid - get this - all THREE agents on that deal. One acting for Leeds, one for City and one for Fowler. What did these three find to fill their day? Counting the cash presumably

[Wilko]

Football agents are no different to any other kind of recruitment agents.

[Chez]

£400,000 is a shed lot of money in my eyes.

 

37 League clubs paid less than £10,000.

Edited 18 August, 2010 by Chez

[Scudamore]

Football agents are no different to any other kind of recruitment agents.

My point stands then

[ssaints]

http://www.football-league.co.uk/staticFiles/7e/54/0,,10794~152702,00.pdf

[Super_Uwe]

I think the whole issue of football agents is something that will rear its head again before too long as it is clear that the kind of increases seen in the Football League will cause concern for some.

 

I have a reasonably open mind with respect to the whole business; it's certainly easy to bash all football agents as being money-grabbers, but at the end of the day if an agent can persuade a good player to join a club, and that player adds real value to the club, then I have no problem with it.

 

However, during my old job working in commercial debt collection, I was actually fortunate enough to be involved in a case involving a Championship club and a foreign agent who'd not been paid. It all started with a fax (christ, a fax these days!) asking the agent if he could help them find a striker, to which he replied "Yep, here he is - that'll be (five/six figure sum) over two years please", and the subsequent faxed reply from the club saying "OK we agree". I found that absolutely astonishing in terms of the primacy of the whole process, and the phrase "money for old rope" did seem fairly appropriate...! :@)

[Lets B Avenue]

Yes it would considering Norwich spent the most.

 

No it wouldn't, as we beat them by £20k.