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Some rubbish written about agents

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chunksafc said:
He wants to earn his contracted wages? Then stay and earn them.

He wants to leave and earn the wages he was on here? Then negotiate that with the club you want to move to, if they dont agree then you have a choice, stay here and earn your money or fuck off and earn less
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Far too reasonable and level headed that man. This is 21st century football man.
 

I’m an agent.

The system is massively flawed in football and need
PS said:
I really want to say that many agents are ****s, but apparently that might lead to legal problems so I won't say that.
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If you can put the word ‘football’ before ‘agent’ please ;)
 
Cat 3 said:
I'm sorry i just dont buy into some of the vindictive rubbish written on here about agents (including our former CEO)

Agents are their to represent footballers - often young and invariably uneducated - in deals which are often multi million pound deals negotiated with multi millionaires/billionaires or by their million pound a year earning lackies.

Football is a multi billion pound business which unfortunately in recent years we have been shit at. You pay players a lot of money and sign long term contracts with them. If they turn out to be less good than expected you suck it up and pay their contract for the duration. If they turn out to be better than expected you sell them - like chattels or pieces of meat - for a fee.

Our problem is that we have not been very good at the business of football - significantly worse than we have been at the business of playing football (which we have been poor at).

Our new owners - who i have a lot of time for - are being slightly disingenuous when they hang Paddy McNair out to dry. Could we afford to keep his maybe - but the truth is it does not make business sense to have a £20k a week player in the third tier if we could sell him for £5m. The unpatetable truth is if N'dong, Khasri, Oviedo, McNair, catts etc said tomorrow we are all staying and committed to the fight we would be financially f**ked.

The personal abuse levelled at Catts and Rodwell or Bent or even at time Phillips or Hutchinson on here is pathetic. Football is a simple business you contract with a player - you are making a punt on his future performances and value. If someone else wants to pay more you match it or cash in. If no one wants to sign him and his form deteriorates you suck it up. Some clubs eg Benfica and Porto are brilliant at this - we are pathetic.

Under Poyet and at times Dick for me Catts was our best performer - hence why he got a good contract. He is entitled to see out that contract. Rodwell was on a good deal at City (he could of stayed but he wanted football) he is entitled to his contract. As for M Byrne she is entitled to earn a living and she sounds like she is better at representing players than a CEO - so what shes moved on so should we.

One final point. In a couple of years we will hopefully be a buyer of players again. These agents we are publicly abusing - the club will be schmoozing to get them to sell their players to us.
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Great up to the first 2 words.

Concise.
 
Cat 3 said:
Agree I’m not saying some are not crap people but they are not going to suddenly disappear from football. We need to get soooo much better at sourcing players



Agents follow money not the other way around
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Ok mate, you’re obviously well informed.
 
G Force said:
I’m an agent.

The system is massively flawed in football and need


If you can put the word ‘football’ before ‘agent’ please ;)
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Have you heard owt back from my audition for the part with Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz and Natalie Portman yet?
 
flusheding said:
All you're doing is describing the absolutely shit situation football as a whole is in, in terms of being held at ransom by agents.

People's negative comments are entirely justified, just because this is the status quo doesn't make it acceptable.
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Which other clubs are in the shit? Maybe we need to accept that our negotiating was shit, an agent will get a percentage they deem reasonable for their players commitment. We are double down and agents are desperate to get their players out of a third tier league. I sold my car recently and got what was a good price, couldn’t care less about anything else. No other clubs are in the shit we are, this was always coming with relegation.
 
Agents have become the managers of the players and hold all the power more so than clubs and players

And as long as this is the case then football is fucked and there will be a continual drain of money leaving the game
 
Cat 3 said:
Correct. But that is what’s financially best for players
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So if these agents are top negotiators and the players are premier league players, the agent should have no problem matching the terms Sunderland gave them, so why do we need to compensate the arseholes to move.

Or are they just bang Fookin average are we overpaid?
 
Cat 3 said:
We don’t want ndong to stay. We wanted the agent to find a buyer. We don’t want to honour ndong contract
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None of these players want to stay you clown, that's the point.....Cake and eat it....
 
BigMack said:
Which other clubs are in the shit? Maybe we need to accept that our negotiating was shit, an agent will get a percentage they deem reasonable for their players commitment. We are double down and agents are desperate to get their players out of a third tier league. I sold my car recently and got what was a good price, couldn’t care less about anything else. No other clubs are in the shit we are, this was always coming with relegation.
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I don't see any articles about clubs being happy about the amount of money going to agents but I often see managers and owners make comments to the opposite.

It isn't about "being in the shit" it "is shit"
 
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