Agent's Fees

[Nemo]

The Football League published their accounts of Agent's Fees spending in the 2010/11 season today, which makes interesting reading if you have five minutes at work to kill:
 http://www.football-league.co.uk/staticFiles/8f/8c/0,,10794~167055,00.pdf.

I remember a significant amount of people whining about us refusing to deal with agents and it costing us players in January/Summer, so it's worth noting our own figures

Swindon paid out £132,435 across 40 transactions. That was the seventh highest in League One behind Brighton, Charlton, Huddersfield, Notts Conty, Sheffield Weds and Southampton. Only one club in the Division paid nothing, and that was Hartlepool.

Across the leagues, agent spending was up about 30%, which is a little worrying.

[reeves4england]

The Football League published their accounts of Agent's Fees spending in the 2010/11 season today, which makes interesting reading if you have five minutes at work to kill here.

I remember a significant amount of people whining about us refusing to deal with agents and it costing us players in January/Summer, so it's worth noting our own figures

Swindon paid out £132,435 across 40 transactions. This is more than every other League One club bar Brighton, Charlton, Huddersfield, Notts Conty, Sheffield Weds and Southampton. Only one club in the Division paid nothing, and that was Hartlepool.

Across the leagues, agent spending was up about 30%, which is a little worrying.

How much of that 30% can be accounted for by the Championship? Would be interesting to know if the increase was mostly at the top end or across the board.

[Nemo]

League One up slightly, League Two down by about 30% and Championship (which makes up by far the bulk of payments generally) up by about 40%...almost single handedly down to Middlesbrough who managed to pay out £1.5m on their own.

[Parkin09]

Safe to say I'm looking forward to Creepy Crawley's figures next season.

[Dozno9]

Swindon paid out £132,435 across 40 transactions. That was the seventh highest in League One behind Brighton, Charlton, Huddersfield, Notts Conty, Sheffield Weds and Southampton. Only one club in the Division paid nothing, and that was Hartlepool.

Not all those 40 transactions involved the club paying the agent fee's though so it can look slightly unbalanced. Out of the total transactions that took place across all 3 divisions there was an increase in those involving agents by 3% (16.5% in2009/10 to 19.5% in 2010/11). That's in fees payable by the club and not by the player.

The figure going to agents shows a 24% increase across all 3 divisions with Championship up 28%, League One up 4.5% and League Two down 39.5%.

Bearing in mind that in real terms the championship increase is worth £3.95m, League One increase is £106k and League Two decrease is £145k. So, overall League One and League Two teams have contributed 39k to the increase, equating to 0.01% of the overall increase.
 

[Don Rogers Shop]

I was about to say the exact same thing.

[Dozno9]

It's what happens when you have a lot of time and fuck all to do, you start to analyse English FL's payments to agents. Scotland next...

[reeves4england]

It's what happens when you have a lot of time and fuck all to do, you start to analyse English FL's payments to agents. Scotland next...

Do they have football in Scotland?

[Nemo]

Not European football, no.

[Bob's Orange]

Not European football, no.

That might be changing if Sion get thrown out of Europe!