City Paid Out £52,126,339 In Football Agent Fees in 2024-2025

jrb said:
It's strange isn't it.

Whilst Masters and the PL are constantly pushing for FFP and PSR savings. And the PL clubs are constantly reminding us of the increase in costs of running a PL club, hence the increases in season ticket and match day ticket prices almost every season, in the last 2 financial years the PL clubs have paid out £820mill in player agent fees.

Furthermore.

The Premier League's agent spending had ballooned from £272.6m (2021-22) to £318.2m (2022-23) and up to £409.6m (2023-24). Those were big consecutive leaps north but a very small reduction to £409m this season would suggest limits have been reached.
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Players generally earn alot more now, transfer fees are also alot higher now. I wouldn't be surprised of they get around 10-20% of the deals. All renewals etc are all done by the agent. They get paid probably the same amount.

We also have agents who do work for us for incomings and out goings. Unless you are involved in the business it would be hard to understand the breakdown of the service of the agent for that particular player. I'm assuming Haalands agent probably cleared £10-15m for the extension. As I have said without agents there are no players. My sons mate got a contract with a Prem team in December last year after he turned 16 - lets say the agent did his job to get the deal the family wanted and the club. This lad had agents crawling around since he was 13.
 
I'd take a guess that some of it is at the expense of being able to get some players in at lesser transfer fees
 
mexico1970 said:
People are not querying that they are querying how much it costs while fans get their trousers pulled down. The clubs priorities are warped.
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Don't see how the 2 are connected. It costs what it costs to run a succeful club. Players staff tranfers stadiun cost, agents it all costs 100s of millions. Whether matchdat tickets should be £10/£20 cheaper is peanuts and nothing to do with waht agents cost
 
blueparrot said:
Why, in what way are you able to understand how a 9 year contract would work, regards agent payments.
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Yeah, as the other poster said it is a stupid high amount given the circumstances of limited recruitment and mostly unknowns. That then means a whopping amount would go to an agent to be involved in a renewal, not even the efforts of a new club but a renewal at a current club. I find it mad and I do not know how that contract would work and if length is even included in the calculations.
 
blueparrot said:
Don't see how the 2 are connected. It costs what it costs to run a succeful club. Players staff tranfers stadiun cost, agents it all costs 100s of millions. Whether matchdat tickets should be £10/£20 cheaper is peanuts and nothing to do with waht agents cost
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Here we go again, it's not about success when fans are priced out. We pay over and above the odds to agents and let fans pay for it. Nobody is disputing the two are connected people are disputing that the costs are carried by the fans.

Again, it's not a difficult concept to get your head around, if you price fans out and add all the bells and whistles when they can't afford to witness it then how is that a good thing and why should they support it?

We are getting worse than the rags were are and people are still supporting the club like Turkeys salivating over Christmas.
 
mexico1970 said:
Here we go again, it's not about success when fans are priced out. We pay over and above the odds to agents and let fans pay for it. Nobody is disputing the two are connected people are disputing that the costs are carried by the fans.

Again, it's not a difficult concept to get your head around, if you price fans out and add all the bells and whistles when they can't afford to witness it then how is that a good thing and why should they support it?

We are getting worse than the rags were are and people are still supporting the club like Turkeys salivating over Christmas.
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Do we pay over the odds, what are the odds on agents for transfers and renewals? Why are we voliunteering to pay over the odds?
 
blueparrot said:
Do we pay over the odds, what are the odds on agents for transfers and renewals? Why are we voliunteering to pay over the odds?
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Spending the second most during a period of degression, without buying a name during that period would suggest we are paying a lot. I don't think we are volunteering for it but we have been known to not be the best negotiators at times in other areas.
 
mexico1970 said:
I don't know do you? Whilst the clubs ask the fans for more and more they appear to be paying more and more to wealthy people.

Seems about right doesn't it?
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No idea so I don”t make judgements on things I don’t know enough about. For all I know we have got a bargain saving on replacing Haalan anytime sioon. Again I have no idea so not jumping to conclusions
 
mexico1970 said:
Here we go again, it's not about success when fans are priced out. We pay over and above the odds to agents and let fans pay for it. Nobody is disputing the two are connected people are disputing that the costs are carried by the fans.

Again, it's not a difficult concept to get your head around, if you price fans out and add all the bells and whistles when they can't afford to witness it then how is that a good thing and why should they support it?

We are getting worse than the rags were are and people are still supporting the club like Turkeys salivating over Christmas.
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In general sense - A football clubs income comes from Sponsors, TV revenue & fans (local and global) - they are the customers. Unfortunately for us that is just the dynamics of the business. Unless they can convince others to pay more ie sponsors,TV or owner investment (which is banned) - it then also means fans still have to pay the price.

Are we paying over the odds for the agents - I'm not sure we are compared to others. We have some serious superstars on big money and most have just or in the process of renewing their contracts. I assume an agents fee goes on the % value of the contract but I'm guessing here eg I read the Haaland extension was worth £260m over 10 years, if the agent earns 10% fee that's £26m just for that renewal. The alternative is he'll fuck off elsewhere. Some more clued up than me will know more.

I'm not defending the clubs, I'm just trying to explain how the business operates. Football is not a game anymore but a business. We are run by some seriously smart business people who i don't think will have their pants pulled down by agents.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
Spending the second most during a period of degression, without buying a name during that period would suggest we are paying a lot. I don't think we are volunteering for it but we have been known to not be the best negotiators at times in other areas.
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Have we ?
 
blueparrot said:
No idea so I don”t make judgements on things I don’t know enough about. For all I know we have got a bargain saving on replacing Haalan anytime sioon. Again I have no idea so not jumping to conclusions
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Everyone makes judgements and my judgement is this, we pay way too much for agents whilst fleecing the fans. You might not like this but that's the sad fact.

We are not being run by philanthropists it seems.
 
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