Agent Spending

[Saxondale]

I have no idea what it all means.  60k from us probably into the back pockets of agents friendly to the people paying it out.  Or maybe Im a little cynical.

Sky Bet League 1

Barnsley - £156,315
Blackpool - £79,750
Bradford City - £121,789
Burton Albion - £11,581
Bury - £0   
Chesterfield - £68,259
Colchester United - £70,276
Coventry City - £104,015
Crewe Alexandra - £12,392
Doncaster Rovers - £64,924
Fleetwood Town - £57,988
Gillingham - £27,125
Millwall - £297,850
Oldham Athletic - £38,473
Peterborough United - £68,556
Port Vale - £7,000
Rochdale - £4,880
Scunthorpe United - £112,650
Sheffield United - £254,713
Shrewsbury Town - £23,705
Southend United - £46,893
Swindon Town - £60,251
Walsall - £17,491
Wigan Athletic - £1,461,088

Total - £3,167,964

[Nemo]

Wigan spent damn near our annual wage budget on agents fees. That's mad.

[Sam Morshead]

Wigan spent damn near our annual wage budget on agents fees. That's mad.

I'd suggest they spent more than Town's annual budget (a fair bit more), though this included nine months in the Championship

[Jamiesfuturewife]

What a contrast across the same league??! From nothing to hundreds of thousands?!

[Summerof69]

All in all £160m was spent on Agent's fees in all 4 divisions...Why? Agents represent the player, so the only people who should pay them, is the player himself.

[Nemo]

All in all £160m was spent on Agent's fees in all 4 divisions...Why? Agents represent the player, so the only people who should pay them, is the player himself.

Not true, a lot of clubs will use an agent now, generally to negotiate with the player's agent. I think one agent got in quite a bit of trouble for acting for both parties in a transaction

[Oaksey Moonraker]

Our figures are coming down. £458k in 2012,  £128k in 2013 and £90k last season. Our friends in Bristol did £231k last season, Preston £195k and Franchise £672k. Another expensive year for Sheffield Utd £255k and didn't get promoted, that's a lot of brown paper bags if the family tradition was maintained.

[suttonred]

You mention that, but the brown bags don't show up in the books..

[Frigby Daser]

Does disclosed agent spending include "payments made to one's mates"?