Agent Fees Per PL club 24/25

[coolhandfox]

At least we aren't one of the worst offenders at paying the hangers on, agent fees per club Feb 2024 - Feb 2025

 

 

Edited 14 April by coolhandfox

[David Hankey]

Agents, scourge of football.

[HankMarvin]

As expected the main lumps of money come from deals, the more expensive the deal the more an agent will get. 
Just means we have been shopping in a tier below with Southampton and Ipswich 

[Jaspa]

How have Ipswich managed that with all the players they've bought?

 

£140m spend. Loans of Kalvin Phillips, Enciso, Cajust. Picked up Ben Johnson for free... I don't believe they only spent £6m on agents there.

[Royston.]

tbf Kalvin Phillps agent probably paid them

[jammie82uk]

 

12 minutes ago, Jaspa said:

How have Ipswich managed that with all the players they've bought?

 

£140m spend. Loans of Kalvin Phillips, Enciso, Cajust. Picked up Ben Johnson for free... I don't believe they only spent £6m on agents there.

These numbers don’t always make sense I’m Pretty sure When Forest brought their 40 odd players they spent less on agent fees then we did 
 

Edit: just found the fees for 22/23, Forest signed 27 players plus 3 on loan, we signed 3 and 1 on loan 

 

Edited 14 April by jammie82uk

[HankMarvin]

2 minutes ago, Jaspa said:

How have Ipswich managed that with all the players they've bought?

 

£140m spend. Loans of Kalvin Phillips, Enciso, Cajust. Picked up Ben Johnson for free... I don't believe they only spent £6m on agents there.

6 players purchased from the championship, and the other big signings were youngsters that were not first team players 

Delap 

Hutichson

philogene 300mins prem experience 

[HankMarvin]

Leeds spent nearly 19m 

Really need them to blow promotion 

 

Burnley £5,305,608

Sheffield United £4,442,940

Edited 14 April by HankMarvin

[Lambert09]

6 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Leeds spent nearly 19m 

Really need them to blow promotion 

 

Burnley £5,305,608

Sheffield United £4,442,940

Funny that the efl have no interest in what Leeds are spending  

[StanSP]

Man Utd should be ashamed. 

[HankMarvin]

11 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Funny that the efl have no interest in what Leeds are spending  

With reduced psr this year 

£61m

 

they were net €130m though

on fees 

Edited 14 April by HankMarvin

[Claridge]

How do agents justify millions on a deal, surely a player could get a half decent accountant and pocket the money or is there a lot more to what they do to justify sometimes millions of pounds

 

[HankMarvin]

2 minutes ago, Claridge said:

How do agents justify millions on a deal, surely a player could get a half decent accountant and pocket the money or is there a lot more to what they do to justify sometimes millions of pounds

 

Weird situation, it’s should be the players job to pay the agents fees As the agent is working on behalf on the player to extract the most possible from the club 

[Lambert09]

10 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

With reduced psr this year 

£61m

 

they were net €130m though

on fees 

They were very lucky spurs were braindead enough to spend a fortune on gray. And we were braindead enough to spend a fortune on skipp so they could pay for that. 

[HankMarvin]

8 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

They were very lucky spurs were braindead enough to spend a fortune on gray. And we were braindead enough to spend a fortune on skipp so they could pay for that. 

What makes it even stranger is if you look at Leeds arrivals how they have spent 19m on agent fees. 

Edit just found out 

It’s Feb 24 to Feb 25 

 

Agent fees are usually paid in instalments or over a period of time, typically over the length of a player's contract, meaning the £18.8m paid likely accounts for transfer deals which were brokered before February 2, 2024 as well

Edited 14 April by HankMarvin

[Lambert09]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

What makes it even stranger is if you look at Leeds arrivals how they have spent 19m on agent fees. 

Edit just found out 

It’s Feb 24 to Feb 25 

 

Agent fees are usually paid in instalments or over a period of time, typically over the length of a player's contract, meaning the £18.8m paid likely accounts for transfer deals which were brokered before February 2, 2024 as well

Contract renewals as well. There had to be insane fees involved to get Gnoto to sign a new deal 

Edited 14 April by Lambert09

[Jattdogg]

1 hour ago, coolhandfox said:

At least we aren't one of the worst offenders at paying the hangers on, agent fees per club Feb 2024 - Feb 2025

 

 

Maybe, You'll never sing that.

[Jon the Hat]

8 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Weird situation, it’s should be the players job to pay the agents fees As the agent is working on behalf on the player to extract the most possible from the club 

From a tax perspective is makes more sense for the club to pay the agent directly than for the player to pay out of their after tax income.

[Hitesh]

Better stat to show for this would be the average based on total signings. Bit meaningless without the number of deals it covers 

[jayfox26]

12 hours ago, jammie82uk said:

 

These numbers don’t always make sense I’m Pretty sure When Forest brought their 40 odd players they spent less on agent fees then we did 
 

Edit: just found the fees for 22/23, Forest signed 27 players plus 3 on loan, we signed 3 and 1 on loan 

 

Yeh thats absolute nonsense that list! I bet most of them figures are way higher. 

[AjcW]

If we assume loan transfers perhaps don’t  hold much in agent fees… and assume Fatawu was dealt with last season. £9m on Skipp, Bilal, Ayew, Reid and Woyo is horrific. I bet Reid agent got a chunk too as they always take more on free transfers. 

[KingsX]

2 hours ago, AjcW said:

If we assume loan transfers perhaps don’t  hold much in agent fees… and assume Fatawu was dealt with last season. £9m on Skipp, Bilal, Ayew, Reid and Woyo is horrific. I bet Reid agent got a chunk too as they always take more on free transfers. 

Agent fees are amortized across the life of the player contract, just like transfer fees.

[RowlattsFox]

If you don't sign anyone then naturally you reduce agent fees.

 

 

[lfu]

14 hours ago, jammie82uk said:

 

These numbers don’t always make sense I’m Pretty sure When Forest brought their 40 odd players they spent less on agent fees then we did 
 

Edit: just found the fees for 22/23, Forest signed 27 players plus 3 on loan, we signed 3 and 1 on loan 

 

Marinakis has close ties with Jorge Mendes, it wouldn't be hugely surprising if he channeled a lot of agent fees through Olympiacos or just straight under the table rather than reporting them all.

It's a shame that the FIFA proposal to have players pay their own agent fees/comissions rather than the club paying them got rejected.

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, lfu said:

Marinakis has close ties with Jorge Mendes, it wouldn't be hugely surprising if he channeled a lot of agent fees through Olympiacos or just straight under the table rather than reporting them all.

It's a shame that the FIFA proposal to have players pay their own agent fees/comissions rather than the club paying them got rejected.

I think you’d have too many cases like with music and record labels. young kids would sign their careers over to big agents who would just take advantage of them. 

It should just be regulated, It wouldn’t be hard for leagues to set a percentage that agents receive and that’s that.