Agents' fees

The Premier League reveals that £77,003,130 was paid to agents over the last two transfer windows. Manchester City paid the most (£10,537,982) followed by Liverpool (£8,600,444). Southampton (£646,106) paid the least.

 

That's awesome considering how much we've spent overall. I love Cortese.

 

Full table pinched from the Fail

1. Man City £10,537,982
2. Liverpool £8,600,444
3. QPR £6,818,688
4. Tottenham £6,595,905
5. Chelsea £6,490,382
6. Arsenal £5,580,873
7. West Ham Utd £4,436,992
8. Manchester Utd £3,681,580
9. Newcastle Utd £3,485,503
10. Everton £3,092,891
11. Aston Villa £2,730,539
12. Fulham £2,581,208
13. Sunderland £2,173,762
14. Reading £2,167,833
15. Wigan Athletic £1,974,305
16. Stoke City £1,717,266
17. West Brom £1,341,301
18. Norwich City £1,248,725
19. Swansea City £1,100,845
20. Southampton £646,106
TOTAL................... £77,003,130

 

Well done Cortese, that is impressive especially considering the amount we spent.

 

Haven't seen the whole list (anyone have a link?) but we paid the least of any premier league club in the last year at £646k. This compares favourably with for example QPR who spent £6.8m in the same period, the third highest amount! I guess we have something to thank Cortese for here; of the other promoted teams West Ham paid £4.4m and Reading £2.1m.

 

Maybe that's why agents are said to hate working with Cortese.

 

The impressive thing is that we're bottom by a fairly big margin. There is around £450,000 between ourselves and Swansea and we spent a lot more than them. Very good Cortese.

 

Mentioned this on off topic thread.

 

Indeed, & for that I salute him. Might well miss out on some one season wonder gold digging pacy centre back, but we'll be alright in the long run.

 

Well, it isn't off-topic so I make no apologies for not seeing it there

 

It's a bit unfair that he gets a bad rep for this. Poor misunderstood Nicola.

 

Full list on other thread. I know it was reported that agents hated dealing with Nicola and Cortese-haters took that as a criticism of him. So well done, NC.

 

Is this going to make it more difficult to sign players? Will agents do whatever they can to encourage their clients to go elsewhere?

 

Well we missed out on Buttner because NC wouldn't cough up a fee he wasn't aware of. Might have been good to sign him, but no one is bigger than SFC (but I am biased).

 

It might already be having that effect, but I'd rather be where we are than where spending fortunes on agents.

 

Not at all surprising to see QPR at the wrong end of that table.

 

I really don't think it is a criticism of Cortese - agents are one of the worst parts of football, everyone knows this. You'll never hear a football manager talk about how much they love agents (except Redknapp, but that's because of his pocket lining)

 

Didn't notice that. That really is absurd. Also very well done to Man Utd.

 

I merged all the posts.......mostly as a test to see if it would actually work. It went a bit funny, sorry.

 

About 7 million on agents fees, that's 60% of a Ramirez or 7 Lamberts!!