Agents fees...

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

The latest figures have just been released:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34968159

If the figures are correct, it seems City are spending £240,000 PER WEEK on average to agents representing their players. Mind Boggling!

Now this is not intended to bash agents, I dare say they have a valuable roll representing their clients, but it certainly does make you think....(And City are not even top of the list)


Note Bury did not spend a penny.

 

[aguero93:20]

The latest figures have just been released:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34968159

If the figures are correct, it seems City are spending £240,000 PER WEEK on average to agents representing their players. Mind Boggling!

Now this is not intended to bash agents, I dare say they have a valuable roll representing their clients, but it certainly does make you think....(And City are not even top of the list)


Note Bury did not spend a penny.

It's likely a few are on a cut of their clients pay package and when you think of our payroll that figure looks about right. At least we're spending £0 on Arry fees.

 

[Damocles]

We spent £12m in a time period where we bought Bony, Sterling, De Buryne, Delph, Otamendi, Unal, Roberts, Soriano, and Lejeune.

That's pretty good going to be honest

 

[frasermcfc]

We spent £12m in a time period where we bought Bony, Sterling, De Buryne, Delph, Otamendi, Unal, Roberts, Soriano, and Lejeune.

That's pretty good going to be honest

It is considering Arsenal spent £11.5m in the same period and bought Gabriel and Cech

 

[Bluemoon115]

We spent £12m in a time period where we bought Bony, Sterling, De Buryne, Delph, Otamendi, Unal, Roberts, Soriano, and Lejeune.

That's pretty good going to be honest

Plus several contract renewals.

 

[Blue Haze]

Oh well. It's part of the modern game. Everyone needs to get their cut. As long as we get our targets it's money well spent.

 

[quiet_riot]

Surely there is a gap in the market for agents who don't charge exorbitant fees?

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Arsenal, pretty 2 much players for £11m fees, someone's making a few bob.

 

[ninjamonkey]

We've spent roughly £170-180 million in that period, so we've spent roughly 7% of our transfer fees on agents. It's a hefty figure and it's still something we should be working on to reduce but looking at it as a percentage of spending it's not too bad.Well worth the money to bring in the players we have in the past year.

 

[aguero93:20]

Surely there is a gap in the market for agents who don't charge exorbitant fees?

There will be as soon as it's the clubs hiring them and not the players.

 

[mat]

With all this FIFA corruption stuff going on would the introduction of a transfer window significantly raised agents fees?

Just a thought.

 

[sir baconface]

At least we're spending £0 on Arry fees.

Triffic

 

[BigOscar]

Pretty impressive given that we signed such big name players and relied a lot on the players agents forcing through moves. Throw in the Delph low transfer fee with the clause, you'd expect high agent fees.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

There's always been something weird about paying someone to negotiate against you.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

There's always been something weird about paying someone to negotiate against you.

This.

If a player (or player's agent) negotiates a £3m "signing on" fee, the agents commission should come out of the player's pocket....surely that makes sense?

I'm sure in the past there has been all kinds of dodgy dealings as incentives to sign....a free Ferrari for the player' s grannies second cousin for example.

(Not at City however,.... where everything has been above board, except when Bert Trautmann was offered a years supply of jelly babies to sign from St Helens Town).

 

[quiet_riot]

There's always been something weird about paying someone to negotiate against you.

Agree totally.

As far as I understood it initially, a player's agent's "wages" should come from the player (say, 1% of wages or something?) so it's then in their own interest to get a high wage for a long contract.

Perhaps I am too naive.