Actually I think you have a point. I've just looked at the website of New Era and it lists these services:
Insurances
Relocation assistance
House purchasing
Overseas Property
Holidays
Mobile phone and technology assistance
Technology consultants
Jewellery specialists
Tailor-made suit...
But this is my point. I do not believe most footballers are so useless they need agents. If anything having agents perpetuates the idea. And I'm not convinced agents always work in the best interests of their clients either. To a degree I think football agency is a service which invented itself...
What do you mean by this? Football is at best a part-time job. Spending a few hours thinking about your career in your vast down time is hardly going to affect you.
Are you an agent yourself? Genuine question as you seem to be dressing up this profession, with some very tenuous reasons, as a...
1) I'd think about where I want to work and do some research, make some calls etc, let it be known I'm avaliable and come agent bullshit free. I imagine the football industry is like most others in that on-the-inside you can find out a lot more than on-the-outside. In fact due to the constant...
Expertise? What expertise? There are hundreds of football agents floating around and I do not believe it is them, and only them, who have the wit and knowledge to stike the best deal. It is not a special god given talent.
I would have negotiated the 30% myself. It's not difficult to work out market rates and price yourself accordingly....let's not forget this is what agents do.
Most of the muppets which have agents do not need them though. Or are they really so useless they cannot sort their own deal out? I can understand the cream needing people to look after their affairs but If I was an average footballer, which most are, I'd sort my own transfer out and pocket the...