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Footballers dropping their agent

Callumcafc
Callumcafc Posts: 63,747
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Demetri Mitchell always been very active on social media. Yesterday he posted about dropping his agent and dealing directly with clubs himself.

Will we see more players go in this direction?

https://x.com/demetrimitche11/status/1938667972186280383?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,552
    Good idea. Plus the PFA can also act for you. Paying agents is just throwing away money unless you are on 100k plus pw and then you probably are not bothered.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,966
    At the very top of the game lots of players already do that with family members acting as agents, Kane and TAA spring to mind but plenty of them do it
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,342
    If an agent works for a club to help move someone on then he is entitled to financial payment from the club. I have never understood why clubs pay agents fees rather than the player doing so in normal transfers. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,823
    Starinnaddick said:
    If an agent works for a club to help move someone on then he is entitled to financial payment from the club. I have never understood why clubs pay agents fees rather than the player doing so in normal transfers. 
    Mainly because - so the argument goes - the agents costs are tax deductible in the hands of the clubs, whereas it would likely just be a net cost to the player and not offset against "salary".

    The reality is that's largely bollocks, of course, and the agent is acting in the interests of the player, not the club.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Yeah but Mitchell ended up at Leyton Orient... 
  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Yeah but Mitchell ended up at Leyton Orient... 
    Vile
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,480
    Don't know why more players dont do this, especially in the lower leagues. Broker a deal you're happy with, get a solicitor to look through the contract, then sign it. Even if it costs you a couple of bags to the solicitor (which you'dprobably ned to pay anyway), it's gotta be cheaper than giving an agent a cut of your signing on fee, salary and bonuses etc
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    Gribbo said:
    Don't know why more players dont do this, especially in the lower leagues. Broker a deal you're happy with, get a solicitor to look through the contract, then sign it. Even if it costs you a couple of bags to the solicitor (which you'dprobably ned to pay anyway), it's gotta be cheaper than giving an agent a cut of your signing on fee, salary and bonuses etc
    Most younger footballers aren't particularly bright - and they're easy prey for the shithouses that circle around football looking to trawl a living out of it. All it takes is a bloke turning up in a flash car, wearing a big watch, with a line of patter and blowing a constant stream of smoke up his arse, and the average 16-18 year old looking to sign terms that dwarf what all his mates from the estate will see in ten years will jump at the chance to not have to grt involved in any of that 'legal stuff'.

    The whole world of football agents is a world of shysters, chances and crooks. 
  • Super_Eddie_Youds
    Super_Eddie_Youds Posts: 1,977
    fenaddick said:
    At the very top of the game lots of players already do that with family members acting as agents, Kane and TAA spring to mind but plenty of them do it
    Great excuse to post Charlie Kane in his office looking after his 1 player ‘stable’



    Hero. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,480
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    Gribbo said:
    Don't know why more players dont do this, especially in the lower leagues. Broker a deal you're happy with, get a solicitor to look through the contract, then sign it. Even if it costs you a couple of bags to the solicitor (which you'dprobably ned to pay anyway), it's gotta be cheaper than giving an agent a cut of your signing on fee, salary and bonuses etc
    Most younger footballers aren't particularly bright - and they're easy prey for the shithouses that circle around football looking to trawl a living out of it. All it takes is a bloke turning up in a flash car, wearing a big watch, with a line of patter and blowing a constant stream of smoke up his arse, and the average 16-18 year old looking to sign terms that dwarf what all his mates from the estate will see in ten years will jump at the chance to not have to grt involved in any of that 'legal stuff'.

    The whole world of football agents is a world of shysters, chances and crooks. 
    A lot of them come across as thick as two short planks, but they’re sharp as fark when it comes to money. I’ve dealt with a Prem player a few years back (the year Bournemouth first got promoted), and he was exactly like that, questioning absolutely everything on invoices, even after sending him copies of quotes that matched the invoices - seemed was bordering paranoia when it come to his money tbh.

    I know I’ve oversimplified things in the above post, but surely there are alternative ways to handle deals in football. Why not just use professional services on a job-by-job basis, rather than getting tied to an agent for most of your career?

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,328
    Super_Eddie_Youds said:
    fenaddick said:
    At the very top of the game lots of players already do that with family members acting as agents, Kane and TAA spring to mind but plenty of them do it
    Great excuse to post Charlie Kane in his office looking after his 1 player ‘stable’



    Hero. 
    That coffee cup has a terrible leak

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