Agents are ruining the Game
Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:29 pm
Reading all the various articles covering the Sala affair has made me think that football has shot itself in the foot in allowing a whole new generation of free-loading people able to make a BIG quick buck off everybody else. When players agents first came into the game in the 80s they acted purely to get the best deal for their player, FAIR ENOUGH lets face it most players are not the sharpest tool in the box.
How the hell we have got to a stage that there are agents for clubs, agents for transfers, agents tied to managers, agents for agents and is seams that its nothing more than a gravy train, that very gravy train is sucking the very life out of football. FIFA, the FA and every football authority should ban the lot of them they are nothing short of totally corrupt
How the hell we have got to a stage that there are agents for clubs, agents for transfers, agents tied to managers, agents for agents and is seams that its nothing more than a gravy train, that very gravy train is sucking the very life out of football. FIFA, the FA and every football authority should ban the lot of them they are nothing short of totally corrupt
Re: Agents are ruining the Game
Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:37 pm
Whistler wrote:Reading all the various articles covering the Sala affair has made me think that football has shot itself in the foot in allowing a whole new generation of free-loading people able to make a BIG quick buck off everybody else. When players agents first came into the game in the 80s they acted purely to get the best deal for their player, FAIR ENOUGH lets face it most players are not the sharpest tool in the box.
How the hell we have got to a stage that there are agents for clubs, agents for transfers, agents tied to managers, agents for agents and is seams that its nothing more than a gravy train, that very gravy train is sucking the very life out of football. FIFA, the FA and every football authority should ban the lot of them they are nothing short of totally corrupt
Simple solution is to make players pay agent after all he is suppose to be looking after "HIS" interests but that is to simple for UEFA and FIFA .... do that and soon see clubs getting more money not agents... ffs mendez got 38m from sale of pogba to man u .. :
Re: Agents are ruining the Game
Fri Oct 29, 2021 9:06 pm
Spot on. Make the players pay their agents.
Re: Agents are ruining the Game
Fri Oct 29, 2021 11:18 pm
All making a cut from the transfers
Re: Agents are ruining the Game
Mon Nov 01, 2021 10:54 pm
There is no simple solution to this and there won't be one until the governing bodies get together and set up a structure with a set percentage as the agent's fee. If that doesn't happen then there are so many tax loopholes that it wouldn't matter who was paying the agents.