Cardiff City paid more than £1.4m in agents' fees between Fe

Cardiff City paid more than £1.4m in agents' fees between Feb 1 2021 - Jan 31 2022

During those two windows, Cardiff signed Collins, McGuinness and Wintle & sanctioned loan deals for Giles, Hugill, Doyle, Drameh, Ikpeazu and Doughty.

And most were just loan deals and we never bought anyone and one was free agent.

They're 9th on the list of Championship teams

I think they also have to pay the agents of those players we got rid of too, although I'm no expert on that.

Plus there will have been agents involved in the managerial appointments and sackings.

Mind you, for the first time in a long time some of those fees would have been money well spent in terms of getting in Drameh, Doyle, Doughty, Hugill, Giles and Uche

Here's the full story, not lifted and portrayed as if it was my own work; but some of those figures are admittedly surreal...


Cardiff agents' fees released

Cardiff City paid more than £1.4m in agents' fees in the last two transfer windows, it has been revealed.

During those two windows, at senior level at least, Cardiff have signed only James Collins, Mark McGuinness and Ryan Wintle on a permanent basis. They have, however, sanctioned loan deals for Ryan Giles, Jordan Hugill, Tommy Doyle, Cody Drameh, Uche Ikpeazu and Alfie Doughty. There was also a very short-term deal for Marley Watkins, who was essentially signed on a trial basis for a month.

To put that into some sort of context, Cardiff are the ninth on the list, with Fulham coming out clearly on top of the billing with a whopping £10m outlay on agents and intermediary fees. West Brom are next with an agency expenditure of £4.1m, Sheffield United with £3.6m, Bournemouth with £3.5m, then Stoke City with £3.4m.

The full list, as revealed by the FA, is below...

AFC Bournemouth - £3,505,603

Barnsley - £505,640

Birmingham City - £1,253,633

Blackburn Rovers - £1,059,338

Blackpool - £368,515

Bristol City - £1,392,048

Cardiff City - £1,459,333

Coventry City - £833,482

Derby County £748,889

Fulham - £10,160,399

Huddersfield Town - £1,395,768

Hull City - £242,986

Luton Town - £564,162

Middlesbrough -£1,579,801

Millwall - £1,022,311

Nottingham Forest - £2,388,090

Peterborough United - £311,280

Preston - £1,047,671

QPR - £925,162

Reading - £876,330

Sheffield United - £3,571,417

Stoke City - £3,400,617

There will also be agents fees on any contracts extended and even on some who are still playing for us as part of their initial signing in deal. Also don’t forget coaches and managers can have agents too

All this agent nonsense is a rip off in so many ways

Never understood why clubs have to pay agents.
If a player wants an agent to represent him HE should be paying the agent.

Never understood why clubs have to pay agents.
If a player wants an agent to represent him HE should be paying the agent.

Spot on