The Clayton deal, now ward not turning up both suggest the work of agents?
In life, when has a middle man really been all that beneficial to anyone?
Indeed. But they and the players are driven by money and one entity is responsible for the obscene money flowing around football. SKY.
Agents get the best deals for their clients,transfer windows are killing the game,also parachute money,if you're stupid enough to pay big bucks and not have a relegation clause then that's your tough shit.
BT are throwing more money at football now than Sky.
Just to comment that the good old Albion are not always the victim in this. A couple of years ago I was sitting in my daughter's front room in Leicestershire and reading the Leicester mercury, where Sven Goran Eriksson was writing about how much he was looking forward to working with a particular forward when he signed.
That forward was Craig Mackail-Smith, and a couple of days later, he signed for us.
But the whole Ward thing is intensely annoying. And I think Ward is a decent bloke so can't help thinking he is just a pawn in all this.
That of course is true, but SKY is the company that literally changed football from a competitive (relatively speaking) game into a game of haves and have nots.
That of course is true, but SKY is the company that literally changed football from a competitive (relatively speaking) game into a game of haves and have nots.