Seems Leeds spent £1.25M on agents fees last season - that must have been more than you spent on players! http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/documents/fl-agents-fees-report-201398-1037982.pdf
£1m on Agents fees? Think it confirms how many players we signed & what a waste of money most of that was given that we're still in the championship!!!
The whole agency thing and Leeds has been a scam for years. It's just like Bates and his jet scam, the pilot was a Chelsea fan that Bates has known for years. Bates, Williams, Harvey and that financial director bitch, along with Mark Taylor the club solicitor have all been dipping their bread in for years. They had preffered agents they would deal with and many agents they wouldn't. This means that some players we could never get because we wouldn't deal with the agent, because he wouldn't give our guys a kick-back. I reckon GFH have found a whole load a sticky brown stuff that these crooks have been hiding
Yes mate - Blackburn £3.5M, Wolves £1.6M Cardiff £1.8M & Palace £1.3M were the only higher spenders to agents.
Blackburn and Wolves will have used agents a lot to get players off their books following relegation. cardiff and Palace the opposite because they were bringing players in to get promotion. However what the fook were we doing just moving **** around and getting bummed for doing it
Agent fees and signing on fees are often higher when players join on a free transfer, so that might explain why we spent so much. That and the fact that Harvey is a ****wit.
Whilst that in itself seems strange, we are also 4th for the most players transactions within the Championship, for last season too. Reading into the report, transaction are made up as follows : New Registration of players - Presumably this means new signings, whether they be transfers from other clubs, or non-contracted players like Diouff, and apparently we had 46 of these. (So Warnock gave us a crap team with his 46 signings) Updated Contracts - Renewals and extensions I'm guessing, we had 10 of these (maybe's Brown's extension clause, guaranteed an additional sum to his agent as well ) Cancelled Contracts - self explanatory, we had 8 of these Loans - again self explanatory , and we had 8 of these Making a total of 76 transactions. Only Blackburn, Palace and Forest had more overall transactions, both Blackburn and Palace spent more on fees than us, Forest spent about £75k less than us. Both Cardiff and Wolves also spent more than us on fees, but had less transactions, 64 and 52 respectively. Blackpool had the lowest number of transaction (14) and spent nothing on agents So on average, an agent earned approximately £16.5k per transaction dealing with ourselves. Blackburn paid an average agents fee of £45k per transaction.
Id bet the bulk of the 1.5m ended up in Bates account one way or the other. It'll be interesting when next years figures are published
Ok in an attempt to prove that stats can mean anything , I've gone into all the numbers in a bit more detail : The Club made a total of 46 new registrations, only Blackburn and Forest made more. For the total number of transactions for all clubs, the average fee paid to an agent was £15k. We averaged £16.5k Blackburn, Brighton, Cardiff, Palace, Hull, and Wolves all paid more on a per transaction basis. If we presume that the largest agents fees are paid when you make a new signing (I know not strictly true), then the average agents fee was £26k, for our 46 new signings (whoever they were ???) we paid agents an average of £28k. Again Blackburn, Brighton, Palace, Hull and Wolves paid more, as did Bolton, and Derby. 14 clubs paid over £20k per new signing in agents fee. Other than Blackpool, who of course paid no fees, Barnsley, Birmingham, Charlton, Huddersfield, and Peterboro, all paid less than £10k per new signing in agents fees. So what does this all tell us. Not a lot really, we paid just above average in agents fee, based on the number of transactions (not sure where 46 comes from , I made it about 26 with loans and professional contracts to youth team members), and Warnock still managed to compile a crap team. As an afterthought how much did the termination of Nunez's and O'Briens contracts play a part in all this, presumably their agents wanted their cut
Lol I know, but given that its a very wet Friday afternoon in North Wales, going out wasn't an option, so a rambling non conclusive post was the next best option
