Saint Victor!

Lots of Liverpool fans on there being gracious - I thought they hated us!
What's annoying me is how out of date everyone on there is, saying they've just seen it reported that he's snubbed us. That was news in The Mirror yesterday. Think we're about five steps ahead of everyone on here.

 

For me its the word 'Newcastle'. Unless Kinnear has started sprinkling his magic dust...

 

That was the best deal we did last year without a doubt. The paltry sum we coughed up for Davis and Boruc on a free were pretty impressive as well.

 

The dynamic in football is truly a bizarre one. For one thing, agents/hangers-on get a much larger cut than in other sports, and it's taken from the team itself rather than the negotiated contract...in baseball, for instance, an agent will generally get 3-5% of the deal as a commission, paid annually, which gives them a clear incentive to negotiate a good deal for the player, but no means by which to negotiate solely on their own behalf. Furthermore, the fact that contracts in football are ripped up every time a player transfers or renegotiates (with new agent fees piled atop each time) creates a financial interest in creating team-vs.-player showdowns every couple years.

It's a mad system. It advances no one's interests save the agents themselves, and any self-respecting organizing body should have overhauled it years ago.

 

Alan Nixon's latest take on the deal:

"Agent fee is a genuine problem. But he won't get that number anywhere else ... So it's the agent's problem too."

"Agent fee has to come down. How long that takes is a total unknown."

"Agent fee is way too high. But he won't get it anywhere else. No idea when he will realise that."

"Figure I have been told does start with a 1 and have six numbers after it ... and they are not all zeroes."

"Wanyama was looking very good. Not so sure now."

"Not a lot to discuss until the agent clears his head..."

 

Football needs to change, in a lot of ways.

 

Makes his quotes about how close he is to his agent in the Mail interview even more of a concern.

 

Explains why the agent thinks that he can make this kind of play, though; with a normal player/agent relationship, the player would likely think "why is it so important that he makes his fortune off of what is for me a career-defining move?"

If he's asking for over a mil, Nixon is right...he isn't getting that anywhere, from anyone. Now, the question becomes whether his eventual compromise position will be one in our acceptable range, or whether he'll settle for a figure that other teams find palatable but which is still beyond our (unusually strict) policy.

Additionally, one has to wonder whether this will actually deter other bids, at least in the short term. Teams that might have taken an interest at Celtic's price might be a little less eager if they know going in that the first order of business will be trying to talk an agent out of his delusions of grandeur.

 

Getting a bit bored of hearing about this agent fee now

 

1,000,001 ???

If his agent's fee is outrageous, I think that's good news for Saints. No one is going to pay the agent what he wants, and it seems like no one wants to match Saints' offer to Celtic. So either he stays where he's at and makes less money and his agent gets zero, or he moves to Southampton.

It would be a bigger problem if the agent were demanding a large, but reasonable (to other clubs) fee.

 

More than we spent in total last summer? CORTESE OUT.

 

With those fee's I'm In The wrong job!

 

Football Agents / Tabloid Journalists / Met Police / Estate Agents

Scum of the earth.

 

I'm not aware of too many Negotiations which have not resulted in Cortese getting what he wants.
Ramirez & our new budget being the more high profile examples.

I'm pretty confident this agent will drop his fee and make a generous donation to the Saints foundation by the end of the week.

 

Absolutely, I cannot think of a group of people worse than those you stated.

 

Would now be a bad time to say my Grandfather and Uncle were in the Police, my brother is an Estate Agent and I'm looking at going into media/communications, potentially journalism? - Not for a tabloid, preferably.




No agents though.

 

Hopefully they explain/tell he that he is taking the piss with that fee and he comes to his senses. They should tell him what they spend usually. He's basically wanting more than the agent fees added together for all our transfers since the start of 2011.

 

You can **** right off then!

 

The sad thing is that clubs do.

 

C**t. That's all i have to say on the matter. I would rather we paid 15m for a player of a similar calibre than give any money to that saprophytic twat. Cull them both. If he is too stupid to see what lies under his nose he doesn't deserve to join us.