Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Football agents are the worst thing that has ever happened to the game.
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The General Transfer Rumours and Speculation Thread
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parklane1
Tony Galvin
I can't dance with that if you add Sky ,blood sucking agents, greedy players, bored billionaires buying up clubs then you have the whole list.
Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
That's a bit of a broad-brush statement. Given how much money there is now, both directly in the game, and for many players, indirectly through sponsorship, image rights etc., there is nothing wrong with the concept of players using the services of third parties to look after their interests. Why shouldn't they? It isn't necessarily a bad thing. Why should a player who has no business acumen, no negotiation experience, no real sense of their potential marketing value, be expected to handle all that by themselves - especially when they would be dealing with club personnel who do have all that experience.
There are without doubt greedy agents who put their own interests above those of their clients -but there must be decent agents out there as well?
NorwegianSpursFan
Neil Ruddock
The thing with agents is, as in all other aspects of life, that if there's money involved, there will always be asholes ready to expoit it. And the bigger the money, the bigger the asshole.
Just look at don king for a prime example.
Just look at don king for a prime example.
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
I'm not disrespecting the job they do (or should do at least), but when where you last quoted €25 million for some pretty standard legal services or investment advice?
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Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
That is clearly ridiculous, hopefully extreme, and firmly in the "greedy agent" bucket.
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
When my father used to be an agent.... Typically the agent took a 5 to 10% cut from the player. The better the contract they negotiated for the client, the bigger the fee they received. Sometimes my Dad would reduce his cut or even waive his fee completely if it would help one of the players he represented get the move that he wanted.
5 to 10% was a 'fair' fee as the job of an agent wasn't just to negotiate a player's wages upon a transfer/contract renewal, but also negotiations with boot/clothing/watch/car/etc manufacturers, negotiations for public/charity appearances, organising things like driving lessons/tests/MOTs/TV licenses/mortgages/rental agreements/etc, etc. Most players aren't particularly bright (my father even represented one who could barely write) and could easily get exploited without an agent. But I feel that things have now turned 180 degrees and instead of the clubs exploiting players, it is agents that sometimes now exploit players - organising transfers that suit themselves instead of the player.
It is even worse over in South America, where young players will often be pretty much forced to move countries or even continents.
5 to 10% was a 'fair' fee as the job of an agent wasn't just to negotiate a player's wages upon a transfer/contract renewal, but also negotiations with boot/clothing/watch/car/etc manufacturers, negotiations for public/charity appearances, organising things like driving lessons/tests/MOTs/TV licenses/mortgages/rental agreements/etc, etc. Most players aren't particularly bright (my father even represented one who could barely write) and could easily get exploited without an agent. But I feel that things have now turned 180 degrees and instead of the clubs exploiting players, it is agents that sometimes now exploit players - organising transfers that suit themselves instead of the player.
It is even worse over in South America, where young players will often be pretty much forced to move countries or even continents.
Dr Rosenrosen
Ramon Vega
Check out the dedicated Gotze thread...
Daisuk
Nayim
That's the 'the mountain' guy, right? Gonna win them a lot of trials by combat this season for sure.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
met a fella the other night got chatting and he said he worked for sky, this was by the sky team bus and he did have on a T shirt with sky on it, he said he heard from friends at sky UK that we want Danny ings on loan.
Lemonade Money
Dimitar Berbatov
Must be true then.
Pool making a bid?