The Premier League has revealed clubs paid £70.6million to agents from October 2008 to September 2009.
Whilst other teams in the top four have wasted millions on agents’ wages, it’s fairly refreshing to see United come so low down.
1. Manchester City – £12,874,283
2. Chelsea – £9,562,223
3. Liverpool – £6,657,305
4. Tottenham – £6,066,935
5. Wigan – £5,527,548
6. Arsenal – £4,760,241
7. West Ham – £3,576,972
8. Portsmouth – £3,184,725
9. Bolton – £3,166,611
10. Everton – £2,008,407
11. Sunderland – £2,007,040
12. Aston Villa – £1,708,374
13. Blackburn – £1,610,885
14. Hull – £1,599,188
15. Manchester United – £1,517,393
16. Fulham – £1,469,258
17. Wolves – £1,235,703
18. Birmingham – £974,982
19. Stoke – £716,042
20. Burnley – £468,398
Within our first team squad we have so many home grown talents, including the likes of Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Wes Brown, Darren Fletcher, John O’Shea, Jonny Evans, Darron Gibson and Danny Welbeck, far more than any other top club, with some of them not having any agent at all and others relying on family members to negotiate their new deals. This could go some way to explaining why our agent fees are extraordinarily low.
Plus Sir Alex Ferguson’s strong dislike of the impact of agents on the game probably doesn’t help!
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City are first at something…
I think they can thank Kia for that.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1232095/Manchester-United-star-Ryan-Giggs-BBC-Sports-Personality-Year-award-age-36.html
finally shitty and tottenham made it to the champs league positions. and liverfool fans can relax as they’ll be in next year champs league, l’m l worried abt our position though barely escaping relegation?
just found this
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/12/01/manchester-united-star-dimitar-berbatov-s-mafia-kidnap-terror-115875-21863535/
dickheads!!
Good evening all.
Again United reap what they sow. Start players in the club at a young age, treat them well and provide endless opportunities and you are rewarded on the back end by players who feel that they can trust the club and SAF to do right by them and their families.
I know that it is a business and agents are part of the game who worm their way into player’s heads and the like (read pocket books) but to see United so far down on the list makes me quite happy. Means more $$ for other young players. And around it goes. Quite a nice circle.
As opposed to the Bitters, et al who seem to have gotten what they have sown. Laughing too hard at the moment though.
how can you call a table-topping team a small team?
are you still saying they are not a massive club?
These may be low due to our (in)activity in the summer transfer window compared to other teams, but they are low even by these standards which is good to see.
@ Jack.
That would explain why he has not been playing since the international break!! Poor lad, he must have been petrified for his family as he just even had a new born son too. Criminals, those guys will get what they reap, karma takes care of that.
that statistic is misleading, man united did not purchase as many big players as other teams during that period – therefore the agent fees will be lower.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11667_5734942,00.html
On an unrelated note to this post I recently read on here some negative comments about the youthful players who lost to Benfica recently. Fergie is right once again. I think all of you expect fair to much of these young players at a young age. Not everyone develops the same way.
@ Das
I think the whole point is the very fact that we have not HAD to purchase any ‘big’ players and rely instead on the likes of homegrown talents like Giggs,Scholes,Brown,O’Shea,Brown and LONG TERM investments like Rooney, Ronaldo (b4 he left) et al to achieve the kind of success Utd has been having (and are STILL having) the past few years..now thats what i call long-term planning by SAF! =)
You do make a good point tho…anyone happen to know Utd’s average spending on agent fees the past 5-10 years? I reckon it would STILL be the lowest amongst the Big 4 (Arsenal too perhaps) seeing as how Liverpool and Chelsea have been spending their socks off the last 5 years.
@ Das, you’re not getting the point.. we spent about 55mil in that time, How much did Hull spend? Wigan? Arsenal?? Liverpool, prob the same…
if you use that 1.5mil/55mil as a proportion, I think you will find our ‘pay offs to cunt agents’ ratio pisses over most of the prem.
read R3′s comment again^ if you still discredit the fact that our transfer policy is very sustainsble. Let’s just say players don’t need much convincing =O) (except boys with ‘dreams’, they can leave after 3 or more trophies)
word to the mother.
sorry that this is off topic, but the horror that is the scouse vermin strikes again…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/22/roo-dad-has-his-40-000-merc-nicked-115875-21840259/
Thanks to fergie some of the most greedy manipulating agents got almost nothing as the only thing they do is to try and get as much money from vulnerable players and influence them in making bad football decisions. it’s refreshing to see us down the list. not surprised to see shitty top and the rentboys as they’re second. so much for tiny tears mooting about team spirit. those cunts play for themselves. i like fergie don’t fancy agents.
@scruffynat
what can i say mate it’s the european culture of crime!
sorry off topic
messi won the ballon d or. it never looked like it was going to be someone else considering the season he had. guys i think that in order for players to get these type of awards, they have to win the champions league.
again guys is DODO still coming in february to OT. i’d like to know.:-l
@das: Its agents wages mate. Agreed most of their income comes from transfers, but they don’t live on nought between transfers..
It simple maths.City pay agents to go out and get players to sign for city were as players pay agents to get Manchester united to sign them.
Ghtt : Lol..couldn’t agree more ..
wazza
I did not know diouf was training with United since thursday
thank you very much for that, I hope your site takes off so I can infest it with videos of emily
Great news, don’t wanna use loads of money on greedy agents!
Quote from Garry Cook to city supporters,
Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook will write to the club’s fans to apologise after announcing at a 60th anniversary dinner for the Official Supporters club at Eastlands: “I’d like to welcome Uwe Rosler into the Manchester United hall of fame.” Oooops!!!
And again – money cant buy class.