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Agents? So that's why they do it.

Pitch Invasion ran this story today:

Here are the totals paid to agents for each division in 2008/9, with the approximate Aussie dollar figures in brackets.
Championship
Total amount paid to agents: £7,541,379 ($18,302,060)
Average agent fee per transaction: £53,108 ($106,744)

League One
Total amount paid to agents: £1,078,955 ($2,100,337)
Average agent fee per transaction: £17,402 ($34,349)

League Two
Total amount paid to agents: £189,167 ($447,686)
Average agent fee per transaction: £4,203 ($9,992)

Even deep down in crappy League One in England you can make $34,000 for a single transfer.

Cor if that was the incentive I'd be trying to get my players transferred every season wouldn't you? ..who is Nicky Carle's agent?

And I guess the Premiership fees are just unprintable aren't they.

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Who's next to leave the A-League?

Aussie Agents up to their neck in it?

You can almost smell the greed of the Aussie Agent. An Agent who seals the deal for the likes of Brendan Santalab to get a gig in the A-League only to work his socks off to move him and any of his other players as quickly as possible to North Asia, the Middle East or even Europe.

If Brendan Santalab can leave for China before he kicks a ball for the Fury and let's face it he must have a great Agent, and Adam Griffith is in the Middle East as we speak after just one game for the Gold Coast, then you wonder if he has the same Agent.

Or if all Agents in Australia are the same. Could not careless about the local game.

Why is Griffith there? $900,000 a year compared to $300,000 apparently!

So who are the next five to be whisked before the end of August?

Jason Culina, Carlos Hernandez, Jacob Burns, Diego, and Robbie Fowler?

Closely followed by Kofi Danning, Ben Kantarovski, Mitch Nichols, Sean Rooney and Jason Hoffman after the Under 20 World Cup..maybe. Watch the Agents circle that tournament.

Aussie football Agents are doing the right thing by their players, getting the best amount of money for them as quickly as possible even if they have just signed a three-year deal, but really it makes you sick dunnit.

Are the Aussie Agents the only football people in Australia who could not give a toss about the local game, the local product?

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Santa: Not even for Christmas?

Every A-League player agent must be working overtime to secure their players a more lucrative contract in Asia, Europe, America, Antartica or wherever before the August deadline.

God bless the Agents as they work hard for Australian football.... mainly to send overseas.

Brendan Santalab another who returned from Europe with high hopes of taking it to the A-League, he didn't did he, has fled the Fury before a ball was kicked.

He's no loss. Oh sure a couple of stunning goals, a few runs off the bench and a lot of time injured, what did he give us?

He hasn't made it in the A-League, he won't make it in China.

How his Agent spammed him is beyond belief. Clearly the club has no idea who is coming, how unproven he is in recent years, consistently.

He's no loss, give me David Williams anyday. A younger Santalab with heaps to prove, and hunger to burn.

But one thing for sure is that although your local A-League club might have settled on a squad for next weeks start you couldn't guarantee Shane Smeltz, Adam Griffiths, Tarek Elrich, Ljubo Milicevic, Jason Culina ( I didn't mean that honest) and a host more will run out come game day could you.

Santa, well he'll be home for Christmas won't he. And when he's back I'll be giving him heaps not presents.

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Football is corrupt: Get in while you can!

Ever wondered why so many rich people and wannabees get involved in football. Clearly Reading the book by Tom Bower, Broken Dreams, about the amazing corruption of Brian Clough, Socceroos Boss Terry Venables, Arsenal supremo George Graham and former Leicester player come $25 million dollar income player agent Dennis Roach football is a great way to pocket the odd $200,000 in cash for doing sod all.

Really puts you off professional football, player agents and managers for life. I got the bool from my local library in Canberra so take a peek if you love the wheeling and dealing of football, in England, Croatia, Germany and Italy etc.

There are two chapters alone on Terry Venables, he was considered that corrupt! No wonder Soccer Australia hooked up with him.

A couple of examples:

Dennis Roach wanted $400,000 for negotiating the Olivier Dacourt transfer to Leeds from Lens.

Peter Ridsdale the Leeds Chairman was outraged at such a fee to an agent.

Roach, "Leeds could not have got Dacourt without me. I was the only one in the room who spoke French," came the Agent's justification

Ridsdale reacted, "I spoke English to the Lens Manager."

Or the time when a Spurs recuit was available on a free transfer.

Italian side Brescia were surprised when Tottenham paid $2.8 million for the player from Red Star Belgrade Goran Bunjevcevic. "We were offered him on a free transfer," said the Brescia Chairman.

Of course Dennis Roach, the Cockroach as he was known, managed to turn a free transfer, which Tottenham agreed to into a $1.4 million deal which Spurs paid!

Paul Gascoigne, Chris Waddle, Nicholas Anelka, the list goes on and on. Everyone transferred, only me and you not on the make!

How much do you reckon Ronald's Agent got for that transfer? Pretty difficult one to negotiate.

Ronaldo wanted to go, everyone knew that and of course Real wanted to buy. Worth at least 10% of $160 million I guess or maybe in the Harry Kewell $10 million transfer to Liverpool, the player agent Bernie Mandic was reported to get $4 million a tad more than 10%.

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