Ours were the forth highest in the league for 2010/11 at £993,026. Probably not all that surprising when you consider how many ins and outs there's been.
more than ever shows why agents should be banned from handling footballers. massive drain on funds. time for FIFA UEFA ALL FA'S to act and ban agents full stop.
It highlights the crazy situation when £60k per transaction seems like good business. There is no way the amount of work done by the agent is worth £60k. Has that fee always been paid by the clubs too, it doesn't seem to make much sense.
I should think these fees are mainly for the outgoing players, we probably said 'right, we're lumbered with this overpaid talentless muppet, there's a tidy sum in for you, if you can find a club daft enough to take him off us for a while'.
In deals an agent will take a small percentage of the deal and this is to be paid by the club but also an agent recieves a small chunk of the player's weekly wage.
I suppose to be fair if some of it was paid to the person who persuaded a club to take Ghilas on loan for a season they deserve every penny of it!
The rate agents are paid needs capping ie a rate per transaction rather than a percentage. It's scandalous, anyone know how you become an agent?
The average footballer can barely count past ten, god knows what would happen if they didn't haven't someone representing them. That's assuming that god's not dead(see other thread)
Agents are not unique to football. In all other industries they're called "recruitment consultants" who get paid a percentage of the employees salary from the employer.
Who was ahead of us? I would say Blackpool 3 times but they were in the prem paying out exorbitant agent's fees.
QPR, Leicester and Boro. It's just a Championship list, so doesn't include any club who were in the Premier League last season.
With a normal job the company needs to hire someone and gets an agency to find them a selection of suitable candidates, if they then employee one of them the agency gets a fee. That may happen in football but more often it seems to be that the agent works mainly for the player not the other way round.
You're probably right (although recruitment consultants would have the employee thinking they are acting for them!). My point was mainly in response to the calls for agents to be banned. My experience of recruitment consultants are that they fire out your cv to everyone and anyone just to get their fee
