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citizens_1976 said:
Yeah without a doubt. I feel that United really did put a nail in the coffin of the value of the market with the Pogba transfer, especially considering what his agent earned. That is what kickstarted the crazy spending and set the ball rolling for the 197m Neymar transfer to PSG.

City haven't followed suit no matter how much shit the media spout. The market is completely broken now and I just feel as though we need to jump on board now. Things will only get worse from here so we might as well join the club.
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Nah when the time is right we should start bring academy players through and then using the press to moan about all these hypocrites in world football backed up with figures and stats... then watch them squirm and try and spin it.
 
citizens_1976 said:
The market is completely broken now, I can only see it getting worse from now on. When average players like Danny Drinkwater are going for nearly 40m, you know football has gone completely bonkers. We may as well jump on board and as I have mentioned before, give it 5 seasons tops and you will see a player earning 1m a week. Its definitely getting to that stage.
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Messi is on close to it already but it's his last contract, will be Pogbad or Neymar most likely.
 
DorisBlue said:
They're glorified recruiters. Recruiters take a payment from the company when they find an employee for them to hire. It isn't much different. The amounts are obviously vastly inflated because there is only one/very few Alexis Sanchez types in the world, but thousands of Gary the Accountants.

So it is no surprise, nor different to every day life. It is the size of the payments which are ridiculous.

Fans perception that football isn't a business doesn't help and hence it becomes easy to resent someone for making money out of a deal and that money doesn't stay within the game.

It will not change until there is blanket regulation, but don't expect that any time soon. As long as the law makers continue to make money, why would they.
Taking a stance to not pay it is admirable, but flawed on our own as it is a broken system.
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I'm afraid I completely disagree. Recruiters are employed by the hirer. The agent is employed by the player. The recruiter in your example is not conflicted, other than that he's desperate to fill the role even with someone not suitable, to get his fee.

You are quite right that we lose if we choose not to play ball - it has to be the regulations that change as we can't do it on our own. And there is a logic to saying if agents hold the power, do what another poster here suggested and play the game by prioritising getting the agent on side in order to get the player

But medium - long term, that doesn't solve the problem. I have no issue with agents earning vast amounts of money. I have no issue with huge transfer fees and/or agents fees. But the fact an agent can scupper a deal by literally, without any exageration whatsoever, naming any figure they wish for and getting the other party to pay, needs sorting out
 
charliebigspuds said:
But then the player would just factor in the wages of his agent into his own wages, clubs would pay one way or another
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Not quite true. Yes the wages go up to pay it. But it means the agent steers his player to the club paying the most wages, out of which the agent gets a %age cut. At the moment, club A can pay less wages but more agent fee and club B can pay more wages but less agent fee. Guess which club the agent steers his player towards
 
citizens_1976 said:
Yeah without a doubt. I feel that United really did put a nail in the coffin of the value of the market with the Pogba transfer, especially considering what his agent earned. That is what kickstarted the crazy spending and set the ball rolling for the 197m Neymar transfer to PSG.

City haven't followed suit no matter how much shit the media spout. The market is completely broken now and I just feel as though we need to jump on board now. Things will only get worse from here so we might as well join the club.
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United are a club in panic, they have no defined playing style and Mourinho is a short term manager. They are giving him what he wants and hoping he gives them some trophies nothing more.

Neymar was an understandable signing for PSG and will probably repay them anyway. Mbappe may turn out to be the same although he is young so understandable again. Pogba on the other hand was complete madness and Lukaku the same, both good players but nowhere near worth the price they paid.

If Pogba is worth £100m then KDB is worth treble that which goes to show how shrewd we have been in looking beyond the 'famous' names.
 
aguero93:20 said:
I think first another football agent bites you in the neck.
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Best post in the thread.

As for "it's getting ridiculous", it's not new. The old folks will remember saying that about Denis Law to City from Huddersfield for 50,000, and before that there was Busby not wanting to put a 30,000 price tag on Tommy Taylor's head so paying 29,999 and tipping Barnsley's tea lady the extra quid.
 
citizens_1976 said:
The market is completely broken now, I can only see it getting worse from now on. When average players like Danny Drinkwater are going for nearly 40m, you know football has gone completely bonkers. We may as well jump on board and as I have mentioned before, give it 5 seasons tops and you will see a player earning 1m a week. Its definitely getting to that stage.
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There isn't enough money to sustain this level of inflation.

A genuine superstar maybe, but now players who have done nothing, are superstars.

Even Sanchez himself is a B list player career wise, and is likely to get this money at 29. He has a few seasons at Barca, as his only top level success. Next doors cat would have the same success at the same club.
 
Part of me is hoping Sanchez thinks about the prospect of going to United to play Mourinho football, a dated, has-been club with dated philosophies and is gutted that he's not coming to City the best team in the land and all the world, world class talent, world class facilities and dazzling football... and proceeds to slap his agent and phone Pep himself to try and rectify the situation.
 
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