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Agents.
Football is taking on a whole new landscape. Most of us who have followed United for years have been proud that our club was seen as the pinnacle of a players progress, at least domestically. Even in the barren years of the 70's and 80's you still got the impression that if United were in the hunt then we would usually get our man, but this is happening less and less as time goes by. Some want to blame specific individuals, but I think the truth is a bit more complicated than that. The days of players wanting to join United because of the prestige and history are almost over, and the main reason is agents.
Agents run the game these days, plain and simple. They are as slick and cunning as the players themselves are thick. These weasels, whispering in the ears of dimwits like a modern day Wormtongue care nothing for the game and everything about their bank balance, and the flow of players is reflecting this more than ever. Players go where agents direct them. Other fans may rant on about how we don't like it now the shoe is on the other foot, how we had it our own way for years, but this is different. Now these agents are not content only to manufacture transfers that swell their bank accounts, but barely let the player himself lace up a pair of boots before they are sowing discord in preparation for the next one. They are a £#%&!ing disease. I'll never be convinced that Stretford wasn't behind the Rooney episode, and we know what magic Joorabchian has weaved for Tevez. Fifa, Uefa and the Fa hold themselves out there as the bastions and protectors of the game, well I think the simplest and most protective thing they could do is to ban the agents. Legislate that all registered players must be represented by the PFA of that country and no one else, and agents fees are fixed no matter what the transfer fee. That way you keep the money in the game, give employment prospects to ex-players who would care more about the player's vested interests anyway, and immediately sever the malelolent influence of parties who care nothing about the game itself. You can't chase down agents and deals on a case by case basis, they are just too slick. You want to address bungs? Good, then address all bungs. It's simple, effective and if the players don't like being separated from their protective blankets who cares? Grow up and stop being puppets. |
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They're £#%&!ing nothing but leeches. Having an agent who's in pocket is becoming a necessary evil otherwise you end up with a Pogba situation. Clubs can only have so many in pocket and agents will favour certain clubs due to conflicts of interest. £#%&!ing stinks to high heaven. In real terms these @#%&!s do very £#%&!ing little if you're a top footballer apart from take money off you. Get a solicitor and make an informed/impartial decision you ball kicking #@&%!s, or perhaps use your free time to educate yourself.
Football stinks from the non league clubs with owners spending money they haven't got causing teams to be relegated to the top where any old shit with a sugar Daddy can win the top prizes in the game. It became fashionable, it became sanitised the big money crept in and now we have nothing more than leeching @#%&!s who couldn't give a £#%&! about the game itself becoming obscenely wealthy by exploiting (wrong word perhaps) thick @#%&!s who just happen to be good at kicking a ball. With each passing year with each transfer/wage record broke, with each undeserving millionaire made off the back off another's talent the game I fell in love with feels further and further away from me. |
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Every day I find myself falling a little bit out of love with football, and I don't think it's being a mard arse because of United's decline in general. I just get much enjoyment watching games. As a kid football was my life, but now I'm getting to the point where I can't be arsed to watch the Euros. Maybe it's just a case of becoming jaded with age (look at No Fun?) but the beautiful game just doesn't seem quite so beautiful any more... Oh, and an old but interesting look at the Tevez 'saga' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/davi...attle-revealed Agree with Crumps. |
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A lot of agents are former players and they aren't @#%&!s. They're just out to get the best for their clients who have a very short shelf-life. Let's make no mistake, football clubs are utter @#%&!s too and the number of players who have been taken advantage of by clubs over the years is incalculable.
The most powerful agents, though - those representing the top players - are indeed leeches and very bad for the game. |
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Just another £#%&!ed up thing that's wrong with this £#%&!ed up game in this £#%&!ed up world. |
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Either the authorities don't recognize the dangers these people represent, or they're on the take too. |
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a lot of this goes back to the bosman ruling, just one of many unforeseen consequences of that. football lacks regulation, right through from player level (the transfer circus, agents, lack of support for ex-pros with injuries etc) to club level (debt, financial doping, player poaching, match rigging).
it is possible to regulate within the game - look how the bundesliga operates, for example:
i get plenty of stick for saying that the bundesliga is the best league in the world, all part of the fred schtick and that but it really is a model that the rest should learn from. and the bundesliga's regulation is all the more laudable when you consider that clubs like bayern or dortmund know full well that they are effectively hamstringing themselves in competition with rivals from england, spain or italy who have no such restrictions, but are still willing to follow their principles unilaterally. it is possible, all that is required is the will to do it. Quote:
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average attendance was actually 45k in the bundesliga last season borsurs. astonishing.
good season review for those who missed it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...desliga-review *WARNING* - has large picture of Kagawa at top |
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Yet everybody wants to copy the Spanish model wherever it be at Youth level or how to run a club these days. :shakehead: |
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