Agent fees

[the count]

Liverpool Football Club can disclose the following information regarding fees paid to agents:

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Payments to agents - 2011-12
Total amount paid to agents in the period 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012 was £8,600,444.
Explanatory note
The amount shown is the aggregate of all payments made to agents for transfers and contract extensions during the reporting period for agency activity, including payments made by the club on behalf of players.
Author: Liverpoolfc.com

 

[Mors]

wtf. Robbing bastards. A lot of the time people forget we're having to pay these leeches every year, and think player transfers is the only thing eating up our transfer budget.
I'd love to see a breakdown, name and shame.

 

[themn]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[El Pistolero]

Man utd agent fees 3.8 million

 

[jexykrodic]

Relax. It's less than 4% of turnover.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Signing shit players is one thing, paying their agents (that much) for the privilege is just a piss take.

 

[Mors]

Their fee's are less than half ours?! Maybe ours would have been the same if we'd not had to re-sign existing players, I bet those deals ended up about 1mill to the agent 1mill signing on fee to the player. There's 3mill out the 8 straight off

 

[El Pistolero]

We payed the 2nd most highest fees in the whole league. So depressing.

 

[jexykrodic]

We paid a lot of fees during the Comolli transfer window and then paid a host of agents to get them to move their clients on in an effort to reduce wages. Probably exceptional write-offs, can't have your cake and eat it.

 

[jon545660]

Total money spent on agents (Oct 2011 - Sep 2012):

Manchester City - £10,537,982
Liverpool - £8,600,444
Queens Park Rangers - £6,818,688
Tottenham Hotspur - £6,595,905
Chelsea - £6,490,382
Arsenal - £5,580,873
West Ham United - £4,436,992
Manchester United - £3,681,580
Newcastle United - £3,485,503
Everton - £3,092,891
Aston Villa - £2,730,539
Fulham - £2,581,208
Sunderland - £2,173,762
Reading - £2,167,833
Wigan Athletic - £1,974,305
Stoke City - £1,717,266
West Bromwich Albion - £1,341,301
Norwich City - £1,248,725
Swansea City - £1,100,845
Southampton - £646,106

 

[FoxForceFive]

I notice 3 out of the top 4 are teams not in the CL who have aspirations to better their league position the last couple of years.

That's not a coincidence. We pay more for the privilege & agents know we have no choice, so they take advantage.

 

[Modo]

Ha, we're suckers...

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

It covers contract extensions as well, and we extended 3 first team player contracts: Suarez, Skrtel, Agger. The value of those contracts and hence agent fees, have to weigh in pretty heavily. If these fees also include staff, then we fired and hired a whole slew of backroom staff, scouting chiefs, etc. so those add up as well.

 

[i_rushie]

If you managed to secure that mong Stewart Downing 50 grand a week in a transfer worth 20 million, you deserve every penny you get from a football club and probably more.

 

[Rouge Penguin]

It's two pretty uneventful windows(including the whole racism thing) , where the fuck did it go?

If you want Suarez to resign, it's going to cost you 4m to stop me touting him around Europe?

 

[MomoWASright]

Them fees are the inequivalent to £10 for each premier league ticket at home. Straight in to the pockets of people who don't put anything back in to the game.

 

[Woland]

Having been watching and listening to a couple of deals in the lower leagues get sorted for players I know lately, it's obvious that at that level the majority of the facts of the deal are sorted by the agent.

Some lad I know now is moving from one club to another simply because the agent looks after the manager as well as the player. Fans of both clubs will assume it's to do with club strategy and it just isn't. It's to do with a couple of brown paper bags.