Agent Fee's Premier League 10/11

[Jack Fulham]

Embargoed until 1700 on Wednesday 30 November 2011

Premier League Club payments to Agents

Wednesday 30 November 2011

The below table shows the payments made by each Premier League club to agents in the period 1

October 2010 to 30 September 2011.

The amounts shown include payments made by clubs on behalf of players.

Arsenal £4,648,532.17
Aston Villa £3,163,320.00
Blackburn Rovers £4,227,056.93
Bolton Wanderers £1,941,896.08
Chelsea £6,457,747.37
Everton £2,931,127.10
Fulham £951,245.50
Liverpool £7,000,242.99
Manchester City £9,663,700.00
Manchester United £4,457,103.00
Newcastle United £6,380,488.00
Norwich City £710,251.75
Queens Park Rangers £2,499,214.00
Stoke City £2,207,698.11
Sunderland £3,735,384.29
Swansea City £248,633.00
Tottenham Hotspur £7,571,815.27
West Bromwich Albion £1,305,576.38
Wigan Athletic £659,800.00
Wolverhampton Wanderers £1,107,918.00
Total £71,868,749.94

http://www2.premierleague.com/conte...cations/other/pl-club-agents-fees-2010-11.pdf

 

[GodCubed]

Weird OP, but the figures are pretty clear to see. £71 million is ridiculous...

 

[Joel`]

So Everton have spent £3m more on agents than players? Interesting.

 

[Jamie.]

Those are conservative numbers as well, the Bebe transfer last year pocketed Mendes' company over 4 million in fees with Bebe's club getting less than half of the fee United paid.

This is probably the figures clubs have either announced or figures the Premier League have access to, if they had access to overseas accounts of club owners and agency companies I'm fairly sure the figure would be a lot higher.

The fact that those numbers are that high just go to show the casual nature in football towards paying someone extortionate amounts to let you talk to someone else.

It's just getting worse year on year, really needs to be regulated a lot better.

A whistleblower for instance, Andy Carroll's former agent, said that for brokering that deal pocketed him personally £900,000 for a days work and wouldn't disclose how much his agency earned in total on that deal.

It's just a ridiculous and predatory profession, it almost sunk West Ham a couple of years ago and it has been a big part of Portsmouth's slump.

If you think the Premier League is bad, in Serie A in the early 000's boom years over 45% of Crespo's transfer fee's went to agents and the league/clubs allowed it. It's the true cancer in football and there's no will to cut it out.

 

[Subtle]

I do not understand the Everton figures :-/

 

[Jamie.]

Blackpool's figures are fantastic as well, Holloway always said he hated working with agents and the figures show he hard-balled them.

To spend £45,000 on agents is phenomenal considering how well they played, a little bit of integrity that is lost on most of the Premier League.

 

[Athe~]

I seriously doubt Everton's figure is accurate. Or any other figure, for that matter.