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10 May 2017 01:45:12
Ed25 has passed on😨😨😨😨.
11 Apr 2017 09:04:09
Thanks ed02, I thought my reply had been "mislaid" so there is a similar rant in the pipeline, you can scrap if you wish.
11 Apr 2017 05:02:27
Ed02, I was genaralissig about the power of agents in the modern game. They effectively hold clubs to ransom to get want they or their player wants. Too much money in the game nowadays, has brought in greed and players thinking they deserve £XXXX when not prepared to put the effort every game. You just have to look at practically every premier league club. Arsenal, Leicester Manchester United, etc etc.
{Ed002's Note - You would need to be more specific - agents have a job to do and largely they get on and do it. A few are very pushy, and some exert very significant powers (for various reasons). I am not really sure what point you are trying to make but it sounds like you are generalising all agents in to the few which do have significant power - and that is really a very tiny amount. Some of the so called "super agents" get involved in such dealings as the sale of clubs and the brokering of meetings between clubs and potential investors. Although not a problem in the UK, there are other agents and representatives who have gotten involved with the darker side of the game and what is the exploitation of children - perhaps if you are interested the al Bangura tale from this guy who has published a book on the exploitation of youngster in football. There has been quite a big deal going on in Belgium about it for a three years or so. Investigations are on-going in Spain which has the Cotonou Agreement where African and Caribbean players are not counted against non-EU quotas so there is a periodic influx of Africans, often young and from poor families.
I could tell you a lot of footballer/agent stories but don't have time. However, two quickies you might enjoy. (a) a Premier League player who couldn't drive had his agent organise the purchase of an expensive car that was rolled out of the garage when he was visited by the press etc. for interviews, demanded the car was replaced a year later with the latest model in a different colour. He still couldn't drive - but it was image. It had a couple of hundred miles on the clock. (b) a northern-based Premier League player who had put clothes in a washing machine but had no idea how to turn it on repeatedly rang his agent in the South East for instructions on how to use it. This was eventually solved by the agent persuading someone at the Worsley Park Marriott to send a housekeeper (or similar member of staff) around to his house to do his washing and instruct him and his girlfriend in the use of the machine. I will say that both players involved are English.}
10 Apr 2017 22:52:59
So what you are saying is it is ok for agents to stir up players, wind up loyal supporters and management, by engineering moves. But the club should not state the blatantly obvious that if a player has a year or left on the contract and has not indicated that he wishes to sign a new deal it is in the clubs best interest to sell.
{Ed002's Note - What do you think his agent has done? You seem to just be making this stuff up.}