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.
Agents' fees
- Thread starter tomw24
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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
I merged all the posts.......mostly as a test to see if it would actually work. It went a bit funny, sorry.
