Bangkok Red Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 Bristol City spent £505,000 on agents' fees last season, new figures from the Football League have revealed. WTF!!!!! http://www.teamtalk....s-fees-revealed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 Ridiculous!!! Agents fees should be payed by the player from their already inflated wages, not by the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 What was all that about when Scott Murray was on the front of the EP about owing his agent £14k. What was the outcome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cloud Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 What was all that about when Scott Murray was on the front of the EP about owing his agent £14k. What was the outcome? pretty sure he won his case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLad Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Agents are becoming more and more a part of the game in recent years and it's a bit sad to see really, as if things weren't getting commercialised enough already with football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/18/greg-clarke-football-league-agents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonwheeler Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Football agents = Cancer in the game. Ask yourself just HOW MUCH do these greedy shites put back in to our beloved game??? Answer Zilch. End of. Worst thing to ever happen to football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatman Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Ridiculous!!! Agents fees should be payed by the player from their already inflated wages, not by the club. Totally agree. Can,t understand how we got to this state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Hocking Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Totally agree. Can,t understand how we got to this state. Well to some extent the problem is nothing new. If you go back to the late 1950s the maximum wage for a footballer was £20 a week. This was regarded as slave wages by the players union and the likes of Jimmy Hill, who lobbied hard to get the cap removed. £20 a week sounds rubbish but at the time the annual income of the average worker was around £200 - so top players were already earning approx five times the average income (if average income now is approx £25,000, that cap would be approx £125,000 a year, which is a typical League One wage). In 1961 the Players' Union won a battle to abolish the maximum wage, and players were free to negotiate their own terms. Johnny Haynes of Fulham was the best paid player folliowing the union's victory, earning £100 a week. So, at a stroke, wages of top players increased X5. There were no agents at the time, but you still had a situation in which the top players were earning 25 times more than the man in the street. The situation has clearly got completely out of hand in the last few years - if you applied the same X25 earning ratio to 2010, the top salary in the Prem would be around £625,000 a year. In reality you put another nought on the end of that when you are talking to Man City. I personally couldn't care less when JT, Lamps and co earn - what worries me is the trickle down effect and how it impacts on BCFC. I really don't want us to be paying average players more than £100,000 a year (even that sounds mad when I write it!), yet we clearly are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Red Posted August 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 The situation has clearly got completely out of hand in the last few years Goes back much further than that. Freedom of contract and the Bosman ruling were the key turning points IMO. The balance of power has shifted towards the players which allows agents to step in and hold clubs to ransom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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