£9m in agents fees last two windows

[Rimbeux]

So we paid £9m to agents over the last two windows

 

Total amount paid to Agents in the period 1st October 2009 to 30th September 2010: £9,032,528

 

 

This was just behind Chelsea, both 50% more than anyone else, and a fair whack of the £67m PL total

 

It might explain why the payroll rocketed to £120m, if it was placed there. But what was it all about, contract extensions, free transfers, getting rid of players?

 

These major ones came and went I think

 

• 
   
  
• Maxi Rodriguez
  
• Jonjo Shelvey
  
• Raul Meireles
  
• Christian Poulsen
  
• Brad Jones
  
• Middlesbrough
  
• Danny Wilson
  
• Milan Jovanovic
  
• Joe Cole
  
• Fabio Aurelio
  
• Paul Konchesky
  

 

• 
   
  
• Dossena
  
• Voronin
  
• San Jose
  
• Mascherano
  
• Riera
  
• Cavelieri
  
• Nemeth
  
• Yossi
  

 

Premier League

 

 

Offish

[Knox_Harrington]

Hard not to leap to the Joe Cole conclusion.

 

Suspect selling Mascherano isn't as easy as you'd think either but I've always thought there was traction in the rumour he was only on 30k a week.

 

Have we agreed any contract extensions since September 09 as well? There's defo Pepe.

 

EDIT: And Benitez and all his staff. They will have triggered as much as possible on the way out.

 

DOUBLE EDIT: And obviously The Hodge coming in with the whip hand.

Edited November 30, 2010 by Knox_Harrington

[CarraLegend]

Thanks Christian!

[Mike]

Hard not to leap to the Joe Cole conclusion.

 

Suspect selling Mascherano isn't as easy as you'd think either but I've always thought there was traction in the rumour he was only on 30k a week.

 

Have we agreed any contract extensions since September 09 as well? There's defo Pepe.

 

all those contract extensions attract agents fees as well

 

no way masch was on 30k btw, not a chance in hell.

Edited November 30, 2010 by Mike

[Knox_Harrington]

no way masch was on 30k btw, not a chance in hell.

Aldo was adamant the 17m to the company that owned him was a fee for them and his total wages for the contract. Wouldn't stop banging on about it. Chimes with the rumours he wasn't on much at all knocking round 09.

 

Suspect you are probably right though.

[anfield11]

I don't understand why if the player hires the agent, the player doesn't pay the agent! Would be great if you could sell your house and have the other people pay the agent too.

[Rimbeux]

Seeing as we've spent under £30m or similar in that time on the way out, it just seems ridiculously high next to Man City for example.

 

I'm thinking it's the free transfers and actually paying Voronin's man to find him a club, remember Bernie Mandic getting £2m for finding a buyer for Kewell.

 

Wherever it's come from, it just looks like a massive waste of money.

[Mike]

Aldo was adamant the 17m to the company that owned him was a fee for them and his total wages for the contract. Wouldn't stop banging on about it. Chimes with the rumours he wasn't on much at all knocking round 09.

 

Suspect you are probably right though.

 

i heard him talk about that myself, totally ridiculous if you even give it a minutes thought...he'd have gone on strike.

[growler]

I imagine it's the bosmans and roys signings. Wilson and shelvey would not have been much.

 

Wonder how much it really cost us to give away 2 hot prospects for pfk?

[_00_deathscar]

i heard him talk about that myself, totally ridiculous if you even give it a minutes thought...he'd have gone on strike.

 

I think Tony Barrett (and a few others) came out with "Barca were willing to double/triple his wages" kinda thing. Elisha alluded to it himself on here didn't he? I can't remember.

[Stevie H]

are agents regulated in any way does anyone know? or can they pretty much make up their own industry's rules as they go?

[drdooom]

i heard him talk about that myself, totally ridiculous if you even give it a minutes thought...he'd have gone on strike.

 

In the end, he did go on strike. Allegedly.

[Bailo]

f***ing Hodgson, buying Middlesborough.

[Conrad]

So we paid £9m to agents over the last two windows

 

Total amount paid to Agents in the period 1st October 2009 to 30th September 2010: £9,032,528

 

 

This was just behind Chelsea, both 50% more than anyone else, and a fair whack of the £67m PL total

 

 

You see. This is one of the many many reasons that ridiculous bloody net spend argument and that spreadsheet was such bobbins.

 

And the bigger the player turnover the greater the wastage on agent fees.

[Rimbeux]

You see. This is one of the many many reasons that ridiculous bloody net spend argument and that spreadsheet was such bobbins.

And the bigger the player turnover the greater the wastage on agent fees.

 

 

I think that is a key point. It's a year on year increase of £2m for us, so not a freak. I'm genuinely thinking we've paid Voronin's agent and others to find them clubs, and/or had to pay them off from big money contracts with agents fees on top. There is also the negotiation and pursuit of so called free transfers.

 

Cant see how Masch costs us big here, he was desperate to go, had suitors and was reported/rumoured to have taken a personal hit to push the move through.

[smithdown]

All that wampum splashed out so that we could finally start losing more games than we win

[Raj]

And the bigger the player turnover the greater the wastage on agent fees.

 

How does that work with Man City who have had a huge turnover of staff in the past 12 months? And for siginificant transfe fees

Personally, I think Rimbeux is correct. Free transfers and agents working to find new clubs for unwanted players

[abc]

all those contract extensions attract agents fees as well

 

no way masch was on 30k btw, not a chance in hell.

 

What do you think is the more likely wage he received then?

Edited December 3, 2010 by abc

[aka Dus]

are agents regulated in any way does anyone know? or can they pretty much make up their own industry's rules as they go?

 

Yeah they are regulated by Fifa. Whatever that is worth.

 

I see some Irish fella is trying to get in on the action. I wonder does he post on here?

 

 

Liverpool fan's bogus Anfield trips scam

Friday, 3 December 2010

 

A Liverpool fan who scammed fellow supporters out of thousands of euro by organising a bogus trip to Anfield is facing prison if he doesn't compensate them, writes Brian McDonald.

 

Jonathan Farrell (25), of Merlin Park Lane, Galway, admitted at Galway Circuit Criminal Court to five sample counts of theft of varying amounts of money in January of last year.

 

Garda Evelyn Barrett said that Farrell had got between €200 and €300 from several people on the basis of providing tickets for the Liverpool versus Chelsea matches, along with flights and hotels.

 

Judge Raymond Groarke adjourned sentencing for two years, by which time he wanted to hear that Farrell was crime free and making a real effort to compensate his victims.