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United have agreed a deal worth 90mil with Everton Woodward hasn't got a clue, basically name your price when it comes to transfers.
Man Utd apparently, much like the Pogba deal, prepared to give Raiola more money to get the deal done. Absolutely disgusting how money goes out of the game and into these shit****s pockets. How agents aren't banned yet I just do not know.
Man Utd apparently, much like the Pogba deal, prepared to give Raiola more money to get the deal done. Absolutely disgusting how money goes out of the game and into these shit****s pockets. How agents aren't banned yet I just do not know.
To be honest MP, the problem isn't agents, it's football's authorities that allow agents to represent both parties etc. What an agent makes from representing his client is between him and that client but when that agent is acting for both buyer, player and sometimes even seller it's fucking ludicrous. Football got unnecessarily flouncy about 3rd party ownership, but happily lets this highly immoral practice continue.
To be honest MP, the problem isn't agents, it's football's authorities that allow agents to represent both parties etc. What an agent makes from representing his client is between him and that client but when that agent is acting for both buyer, player and sometimes even seller it's fucking ludicrous. Football got unnecessarily flouncy about 3rd party ownership, but happily lets this highly immoral practice continue.
Completely agree.
Raiola is a parasite on the once beautiful game.
But there is an upside. If Lukaku is manure's centre forward for the next five years, they'll be less inclined to sniff around Harry Kane. Chavski are obviously still looking for a CF, but I suspect Kane would not go there.
Passage below gives details of the scumbag Raiola yet again extracting a huge "eight figures" fee from the transfer.
Even by Friday night, however, Chelsea had feared Lukaku’s representative, Mino Raiola, was intent on pushing his client towards Old Trafford, where he successfully moved Pogba, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic last summer. The London club, when submitting their bid, had indicated they were unprepared to match the agent fee – apparently amounting to eight figures – on offer to Raiola from United and, instead, felt as if they had presented Lukaku with a simple choice: push to join the club for whom he had initially been so anxious to play again, albeit against his agent’s financial interest; or sign for United in the knowledge Raiola will secure a bigger fee from the deal.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/07/chelsea-romelu-lukaku-offer-match-manchester-united
I agree that is the worst case where agents are effectively tied up with clubs and using them as a vehicle for players, but I still don't like practice full stop. I can see no reason why agents get paid into the millions of pounds on any deal, what do they do?
Just off the top of my head, without refining the idea(s), I'd say a good starting point would be for FIFA to outright ban agents, so the likes of Mendes and Raiola are blacklisted and any player or club suspected of dealing or making payments to agents get either banned (players) or points deductions/competition bans (clubs). Then I'd have financial advisors, lawyers, marketing/rights guru's etc available via the Player Unions, with the cost met by the clubs - even if they all had to fork out say a couple of million a year for PL clubs that would be a big saving on agents fees.
If I got my wish and top level teams were only able to make one transfer a year (three for promoted clubs) then that would also get rid of some t of the murky dealings...
players have options....PFA will represent for a fraction of the costI don't really see why a player (often not the smartest cookies) shouldn't be entitled to (independent and not foisted on them) representation of their own choosing, and the concept of greed isn't exclusive to agents.
Where I think there is a huge problem is the massive conflict of interest you get when agents act, represent or profit from more than party in a deal.
players have options....PFA will represent for a fraction of the cost
I don't really see why a player (often not the smartest cookies) shouldn't be entitled to (independent and not foisted on them) representation of their own choosing, and the concept of greed isn't exclusive to agents.
Where I think there is a huge problem is the massive conflict of interest you get when agents act, represent or profit from more than party in a deal.
United have agreed a deal worth 90mil with Everton Woodward hasn't got a clue, basically name your price when it comes to transfers.
It's against fifa rules for an agent to represent both parties. Hence their investigation into the deal.
Well then cap the 'fee' that an agent can make, say 100k. You cant tell me you are happy for in some cases tens of millions to be going directly out of the game to these people?
It really is incredible to see 100 mill deal for big Rom.
he will do well for them, should assist turning a lot of those league draws into a few more wins....has a bit to prove in the key CL games etc. but still young
Conte is going to be miffed off
looks like Chelski assisted the toffeemen by coming in with a late bid so Utd have agreed to 75 + 15 in (easy) add ons + RooneyI swear every time I log on this deal gets more expensive!