By selling Jackson to us for 70M.
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This would be a dream signing.
âJoin Chelsea bro, itâs the best option and has absolutely nothing to do with the 20mill agency fee Iâve just agreedâ
https://twitter.com/moarsenal86/status/1729071439612166264?s=46
As dumb as it is on a certain level, I can see why footballers like Kane and Anelka have a brother (or other relative) work as their agent/play a key role in their âentourageâ
I know Iâd want someone there with my best interests at heart, not some fucking money hungry shyster who gives no shits about my career and just sees me as a walking cheque.
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If you are a successful player and you delegate critical areas such as social media and brand deals to marketing agencies, or contracts to a legal team, it is possible to have a family member represent you. Neymar, for instance, kept a shit load of agent fees within his family.
I mean it would be less dumb and manageable
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Yeah, thatâs kind of what I was thinking. You need professionals in there to negotiate your contract, brand deals, inage rights do your socials etc, but that you should also have someone close to you involved who you trust to actually have your best interests at heart. And like you say, to keep some of those agent fees within your family and not enroching some random cunt lol
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I mean that does sound like it describes a lot of these family members lol
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Pires used to do his contract negotiations himself and it seemed to work for him.
Agents are shysters who are only interested in making a profit for themselves, as we saw with Pepe.
They unsettle players, so are a bad influence on players and clubs, basically theyâre just scum.
True, obviously family members can be cunts too, I was speaking from the perspective of someone who trusts his own family to look out for his interests. Obviously if my brother was a greedy little rat cunt heâd be nowhere near my team 
A double-edged sword for me.
Many agents possess extensive knowledge about football contract negotiations and are capable of identifying the fine print within a contract that a player or regular contract legal person may overlook. One example of this is when Ruben de la Red was forced to retire due to a heart condition. Real Madrid attempted to exploit a clause that would categorize de la Redâs heart problem as âa common conditionâ, thereby triggering an annulment clause in his contract. With that clause, Real Madrid would have managed to pay him just âŹ1,500 as a monthly disability benefit instead of the full wages due from the remaining two years of his professional contract. Luckily he was able to deter that scenario.
While agents are definitely greedy, they care for players more than clubs would ever do. Given the way certain clubs have treated players such as Schweinsteiger, Ozil, and Bale, I wouldnât recommend going in without a proper representation.
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Agents rarely do something for a player without getting their percentage from it.
As for players like Ozil and Bale, you could argue that they both got plenty out of the clubs they played for, especially Ozil who was one of the highest paid players in Europe yet was doing nothing for the club or supporters with his petulant, lazy attitude.
I know a lot of people in the music industry and not many have a good word to say about agents, or even record companies, who fiddle both musicians and consumers.
Well, they need to have some incentive, right?
What agents did to Falcaoâs career was fucked up, but what agents did for Haaland is unbelievable.
Not really, no. Playersâ contracts often include bonuses based on playing time. If a club decides not to play a player for financial reasons rather than footballing reasons, they are unfairly taking away the playerâs chance to earn these bonuses and forcing them to look for a less lucrative deal elsewhere.
For example, even though Gareth Bale helped Real Madrid win back-to-back Champions League finals, the club was unhappy with his injury issues and tried to push him out. Bale was injured, not lazy.
PSG also tried to force Kylian Mbappe into a new contract or lose out on his loyalty bonus.
Once a player signs a contract, clubs must honor it ethically, which is only enforceable by the contract. An agent or a competent legal person is the only one who can set correct terms.
If clubs attempt to reduce bonuses by not playing the player, there should be a clause in the contract that guarantees a base pay per week, regardless of on-pitch involvement, if the player is available and not selected.
It is essential that Everton players rewrite their relegation clause (or final league standing bonuses) to ensure the clubâs poor financial decisions do not negatively impact them.
I have heard more horror stories about record companies milking small artists or even big artists at the start of their career.
Yeh go on Chelsea, spunk another load of money on another player.
There will be a market for Osimhen however I wasnât aware of his injury record before and thatâs a big outlay for a guy in his mid twenties, already showing wear and tear.
I love his profile but you know if we sign him that heâll go the way Partey has, so whatâs the point!
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DiMarzio lol. The fraud who said Rice to City was a done deal
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Difference is this is Italian news and thereâs nobody more reliable in Italy than him.
He is a cunt for sending us to hell forna couple of days when he decided to cover the Rice situation though.
Jose Felix Diaz(Spain) did the same, same for Florin Plettenberg(Germany)
They all got burned. Should habe stayed in their lane.
Those release clauses usually have to be paid upfront in full donât they?
I believe so.
Also, Romano now reporting what Di Marzio said:
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1735025642649903502
He really isnât worth all that imo.
Phew, never wanted him in the first place.
The new deal is said to be a âgentlemanâs agreementâ to make sure that Osimhenâs exit from the club is peaceful, especially because Arsenal have already made contact with Calenda, with Chelsea also interested
Fabrizio also corroborated that Arsenal and Chelsea are interested in him.