League 1 Agents fees 20/21 season

clive

Hull City - £543,238
Sunderland - £406,207
Ipswich Town - £341,622
Oxford United - £298,576
Charlton Athletic - £213,537
Peterborough United - £185,293
Portsmouth - £157,012
Doncaster Rovers - £110,299
MK Dons - £96,174
Shrewsbury Town - £95,241
Lincoln City - £92,627
Blackpool - £79,416
AFC Wimbledon - £76,474
Northampton Town - £68,220
Bristol Rovers - £62,108
Plymouth Argyle - £59,458
Burton Albion - £56,720
Fleetwood Town - £35,948
Accrington Stanley - £27,545
Rochdale - £25,258
Wigan Athletic - £25,000
Swindon Town - £21,632
Crewe Alexandra - £4,500
Gillingham - £0
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/19203459.swindon-town-spend-21-632-agents-fees-2020-21-season/

Addick Addict

Only 4 clubs paid more than us to agents this season then. Gillingham - £0. Imagine what they would be doing if they could sign players that used agents! 

ParkinsonOut

Apologies if I’m being a bit thick, but why do clubs have to pay the agent? If the agent works for the player surely it’s his responsibility? 🤯

LargeAddick

ParkinsonOut said:

Apologies if I’m being a bit thick, but why do clubs have to pay the agent? If the agent works for the player surely it’s his responsibility? 🤯

Sometimes agents work for clubs, ie if you want to offload players. And sometimes maybe part of a deal when signing a player is that the club pays the agents fees?

cafc999

A good friend of mine was an agent for athletes and had a dabble in the football world. He got out sharp as he said it was a real snake pit.

On a side note he said that Charlton under Roland literally spent no money on players at the end. Roland only offered one of his player £200 a week to sign. He turned it down as non league Dover paid more 

Karim_myBagheri

ParkinsonOut said:

Apologies if I’m being a bit thick, but why do clubs have to pay the agent? If the agent works for the player surely it’s his responsibility? 🤯

I'm only going by Football Manager game but as far as i can see whenever there's a transfer or new contract the Agent gets paid his (extortionate) fee by the club. whether that's true in real life i don't know. 

Cafc43v3r

I would imagine a lot of that is to Phillips, Bonne and Doughty's agents.