Most liked posts in thread: Agent fees

If you watch stick to football on YouTube, their guest this week was JJ Watt who was an NFL player that about a year back invested in Burnley and is helping run the club.

He said one of the alien things he can't grasp are football agents. For comparison, in the US the most an agent can ever ask for is a 3% cut of the contract as their fee but it's from the players salary. So as part of working for that player, the player can pay him up to 3% of the deal. The teams never pay the agent a penny.

He said football agents are like the wild west, just no rules, no structure and he couldn't get his head around the clubs paying the player as well as the agent, when the agent is working on behalf of the player.

 

Forest Green should be asking for their money back.

 

Still think it is mad that the club pays for the agent when they are acting on behalf of the player

 

Sahil Bashir was the Academy player Bradford City sold to Brighton.

 

Plus how can the same agent work on behalf of both the club and the player. Surely they should be trying to get the best deal possible for their client?

 

Quite a few young kids there being represented,hopefully some reach their potential and/or we get some of that dough back.

Bilal Hussain is he the lad that went to Brighton and was playing in their EFL trophy team?

 

Also why TF have we paid 2 different agents for both Oduor and Bradshaw?!? Pathetic

 

Could definitely use some reform.

MMA is a relatively new sport and the agent works for the fight, not the promotion. They don't get anything from the UFC or equivalent organisations.

Not sure why football is a law unto itself?

 

FGR…..crikey!

 

On the flip side Chelsea spent £75 MILLION on agents fees.

 

£138k on this underachieving bag of shite we have representing us

Sparks should be paying this out of his own pocket with some of those signings