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Football League Agent Fees 12/13

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Harry

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Dear Harry,

Please analyse this document and report back within 24 hours with findings. Thank you.

Ok, I've had a look but it's impossible to break down all of the transfers / payments registered during 12/13. But I'll give it a go!

The report says that 2 players had their contracts cancelled, which were Stewart and Morris.

It says that we made payments for 9 Loans, but I can only count 5 actually a happening DURING the 12/13 season - Elokobi, McManus, Briggs, Danns & D Wilson. I can only assume the other 4 were for one of 2 possiblities :

1) for payments we'd still had to make on instalments from the previous season's loans - we'd made about 500 loans the previous season, so possibly some of these could have been subject to multiple payments spread across a year? Or,

2) for payments we made to arrange for other clubs to take OUR players on loan. Carey went to Weston, Reid to Oldham, Burns to Forest Green, Bryan to Plymouth, Edwards to Yeovil, Ajala to Wimbledon, Pitman to Bournemouth. Possibly we paid for the negotiations of the Carey, Burns, Bryan & Ajala deals?

The report also states that 11 contracts were updated during 2012/13.

I can count Louis Carey, Lewis Carey, Edwards, Pearson, Amadi-Holloway, Bryan & Reid. That's 7. Under this category I guess would also fall Bates, who'd initially joined on a short term deal and then extended this to 6 months. So that's 8. There were rumours that Marv also extended his contract last year although nothing can be found in the press about this, so that's 9. I can't think who the other 2 are? Graham C is usually very hot on this stuff so he might be able to help us out here. Could be that another couple of youth players had extensions given??

Finally, the figure that states we made 41 New Registrations / Transfers.

This is the one which we will have no idea of clarifying. New Registrations will be those players not previously with us who we signed, so this would be Heaton, M Wilson, Cunningham, Bates, Anderson, Kelly, Maloney, Morris, Baldock, Davies, Howard. That's 11.

Add to this the players who were signed for the Development Squad - Dobie, Ajala, Jones, Krans, King, Battersby and that gives us 17 altogether.

There may be a couple more youngsters we took on but I've forgotten (again Graham C is your man here!).

So that leaves approx 24 transactions made on transfers which we can't quantify. As noted earlier, this is probably a whole host of payments which were due through instalments from transfers in previous years. Rarely these days will a transfer be paid in full at one time and will usually be spread over numerous payments and numerous years, no doubt each one ensuring the agent gets his cut.

If you start totting up some of the deals we've done over the last 3 years which probably involved an agent you might get somewhere near this - Foster, Bolasie, Pearson, Taylor & Kilkenny in 2011/12. Woolford, Pitman, Stead, Hunt, Cisse, Adomah, James, Keohane, Williams, Hoban, Stewart in 2010/11. Campbell-Ryce, Saborio, Nyatanga, Clarkson, Haynes, Gerken, Hartley & Blackman in 2009/10. That's your 24!!

I'd hazard a guess that the majority of the £467k derives from the transfers of Baldock, Davies, Heaton, Anderson, Morris & Kelly.

Interestingly, for the Championship, we ranked 15th and only made up 2% of the division's total outlay. Only 1 club in the leagues below us made more of an outlay, which was Bournemouth. Mmm..David James anyone?

There you go - make of that what you will!!

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Harry

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Harry I'm a bit busy right now - could you summarise in one sentence please?

Ha ha, I know I usually go on a bit Nick, but I was asked to provide analysis this time, so I obliged. :laugh:

One sentence - we paid a shite load of money to parasites for bugger all!!

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