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slickophant

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Can't find a thread on this.

Football League just published total payments to agents July 05 to July 06.

PNE third behind Leeds and Southampton @ more than £550k!!!!!!!!!! More than Sheff Utd, Wolves , Cardiff etc.

No wonder we're skint.
 
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Whether we saw them or not, the point he is making is, £450,000 to £500,000 whatever the actual final figure was, is too much, especially for a club like PNE. Lets hope the report on dodgy Agents helps. :mawene:
 
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keith750cc said:
Whether we saw them or not, the point he is making is, £450,000 to £500,000 whatever the actual final figure was, is too much, especially for a club like PNE. Lets hope the report on dodgy Agents helps. :mawene:
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I'll say it's too much! If you take the average cost of a season ticket (including all concessions etc) for the sake of dicussion to be £300, then PNE need to sell 1500 of them just to pay the leeches 450K!!

Agents are a cancerous growth within the body of football, and they need serious surgery to get them out.

It's quite reasonable to consider that a good number of footballers are not that well equipped between the ears, and they do need advice when negotiating transfers and contracts. So, why aren't agents fees paid by the player? After all did your building society pay for your solicitor and estate agent when you moved house?

If clubs identify their own transfer targets through scouting systems, there would be no need to have phone calls and videos coming in touting names.

As long as football clubs do business as they do, the leeches will suck the lifeblood from them. One day -on a jaunt out in Portugal or somewhere similar - the league chairmen will learn to say 'NO' like the primates in planet of the apes. They will stand together and agree across the board to stop paying these 'fees', and there will be a glimmer of hope for a new order in the game.

Then again, perhaps they won't. What's the address for agent registration applications?
 
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I also seem to recall, at the time, that someone who knew an agent said that North End had a reputation for NOT being pushovers when negotiating. The size of the fees paid therefore reflected the number of deals that we were doing, not money that was being wasted.
 
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What I can't get my head round is OK players have agents to negotiate a salary , presumably because half of them are as thick as pig shit and can't negotiate themselves, but how come agents refer to them as "my players" and tout them round the other clubs? Surely this isn't in the interest of the game?
 
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Players do now pay the agents themselves-this is a recent change. Touting a player roung to other clubs is illegal, it's called tapping -up any agent found doing this will lose his/her licence and will be fined. Two agents have been suspended and/or fined this week for exactly that offence.

We need a wage cap (won't happen because clubs won't co-operate) we need a cap on what clubs are allowed to spend (won't happen again as clubs will find a way round such a cap) and we need to rid the game of these pariah's known as agents, they take millions of punds out of the game. Finally, we need the finances of football to be reviewed downwards -more money going to lower league and grass roots level-squeeeze the prem clubs and make them pay up instead of splashing millions on mediocre foreign players.
 
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